Oakland Raider News: Today Will Be A Day Of Mourning For Chris Henry:

by Raymond St. Martin (Saint) on Dec 17, 2009 10:06 AM PST

I will not report on anything today. After seeing the photo of Chris Henry with his children, I just can't write about anything that is going on in Raider Land.

Football seems like just a kid's game played by grown men today. I don't know what it is about Chris Henry passing away that got to me this morning. He isn't a Raider. I don't know him. I've never even met him. But, I CAN personally relate to him.

But, what he is to me is someone who overcame long odds and his own problems to right his ship and become a success. I can personally ralte to this in my own life.

Also, like me, he was a father of three children. One of my deepest fears is dying young and not being able to raise my young daughters, let alone them not knwoing me, or be there for my teenage son when life bites him in the backside.

This is a very real tragedy. I know that young fathers die every day, and I weep for them when I hear about it. It is just that we usually don't get to know the intimate details because they are not famous.

I said a prayer for his children today and I encourage all of you of different faiths to do the same. Whether it is a prayer, a meditation or just a thought, I believe that it will cause some good to go to his family.

A young man was taken from us today, and many are weeping.

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Chris Henry will be missed

Its a real shame that we lost a good football player that was appearently also trying to become a good human being as well. My heart goes out to his family, friends, and teammates in this time of mourning. I hope the Bengals can come together even more and dedicate the rest of the season and the playoffs to this talented young man’s memory!!!

by Khari on Dec 17, 2009 10:36 AM PST reply actions

Echoing your sentiments....

Cheers! May Chris be held in God’s grace and his children grow up safe.

by BlackHole77 on Dec 17, 2009 10:45 AM PST reply actions

Chris Henry

As a fan, this is tough and so I can’t imagine what his family is going through. It’s a shame. He’s in my thoughts and prayers and my condolences go out to his family.

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by Rated-R Superstar on Dec 17, 2009 11:29 AM PST reply actions

Just terrible news

I have a serious soft spot for people who fuck up their younger lives but manage to right their ship and get onto the right path. I did the same thing. I had been very happy to hear earlier about how Henry was finally on the straight and narrow. I was rooting for him. I mourn his death so soon after his personal renaissance. My sincerest condolences and thoughts are with his family and especially his children. It is cold comfort, but at the least he is at peace.

"'Tis a bird I love, with its brooding note, And the trembling throb in its mottled throat; There's a human look in its swelling breast, And the gentle curve of its lowly crest; And I often stop with the fear I feel-- He runs so close to the rapid wheel." Nathaniel Parker Willis, "The Belfrey Pigeon"

by Raybin on Dec 17, 2009 12:03 PM PST reply actions

RIP

Those kids will go through something that I can relate to, having my dad die when I was young. There too young to realize the significance of it now but it’s just too sad

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by dubzfan on Dec 17, 2009 1:59 PM PST reply actions

RIP

Chris Henry nobody deserves to have there life cost short

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by Czheck on Dec 17, 2009 3:20 PM PST reply actions

A sad end to a guy who really turned things around. He really was a great story. He will be missed.

by Walker Wallace on Dec 17, 2009 3:43 PM PST reply actions

RIP

Chris Henry…sucks to see so many people dying at such young ages.

we seem to have gotten over that HURDLE

thanks for a great season Rockies!

LETS GO WINGS!

by TuLoRocks2008 on Dec 17, 2009 4:38 PM PST reply actions

Saw the news this afternoon

can’t believe the kid is gone. he had so much potential, and his life was just turning around for the better. i just cant believe it.

RIP Chris Henry.

by patriotguy on Dec 17, 2009 6:42 PM PST reply actions

he was my age

its been tough of me that why i live each day like my last

okay i have cereal palsy arhrtis and chronic fatiue as well i have a grea life loveing folks some days are better that other days i got a make a wish in 2001 saw my favorive team the broncos was the trip of the lifetime i wish everyone couild gotten to enjoy that with me i know some of u hate the broncos and that ok but i bleed organ and bule

by j-man on Dec 17, 2009 6:47 PM PST reply actions

RIP

AMEN

by raidersutah on Dec 17, 2009 8:09 PM PST reply actions

Chris Henry

A witness says that late Bengals receiver Chris Henry told his fiancee that he would kill himself if she didn’t stop so they could talk.

The couple began fighting on Wednesday night and Loleini Tonga, who was set to wed Henry in March, sped off in their yellow pickup truck.

A nearby neighbor, who was working in his yard, heard a shirtless Henry screaming.

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by Rated-R Superstar on Dec 18, 2009 9:51 AM PST reply actions

a shame

but are you really surprised that this happened? in one way or the other (not being thrown or jumping from the back of a moving truck) but something like this was going to happen maybe get shot in da club,have an accident while driving,get robbed by some of the haters from his past ,get arrested again or something point is this doesn’t surprise me at all because it seems that he chose a hostile life style and it just cuaght up to him in a tragic way……sad for the kids not for chris henry he chose his life.

by TRURAIDA on Dec 18, 2009 5:57 PM PST reply actions

You are considering Henry's Karma, right?

Karma is valid, to a point. But the Karmic mechanism isn’t necessarily determined. Consider some of the saints who were really bad but never experienced the proportionate shitload of bad karma, it never came justly down on them. So, it’s not automatic that X amount of bad deeds = Y amount of repercussion. But, even if it appears that repercussion caught up to Chris Henry, we don’t know for certain that he wasn’t fighting heroically, like a saint, against ‘his demons’ at the moment the game ended, so I’m thinking that there’s the possibility that he might have died gloriously after all, regardless of how circumstances appear.

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by Sons-of-Blanda on Dec 18, 2009 10:44 PM PST up reply actions