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Junior Seau apparently committed suicide today. That's what the police suspect, anyway, so it's what we'll have to go on for now, too. Seau was one of my favorite players growing up, and I surmise that's a sentiment I share with lots of people my age. I'm deeply saddened today.
I would love to say that I'm in disbelief, that this news cannot be believed. But with every former NFL player who dies confused, addled and far too early—only to be diagnosed with CTE after his death—it just starts to feel like a pattern, a broken record that we're tired of hearing but can't do anything about.
Let's get some critically important facts out of the way right now: We don't know what prompted Seau's apparent suicide. We don't know if he had CTE. We don't know if...
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