Watched this last night. Lots to digest. His upbringing, sexuality, denial and mental state floored me. Worth watching even if you hate the cheaters. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
Fiance watched this yesterday and was telling me about it, but she hadn't finished yet. I said yeah it's kinda crazy whow he kills himself and she goes "Oh my God! Hes dead!?". I was like how the hell didnt you hear about this. She didn't even know who he was before she watched the documentary.
So that brings me to my question. Would your guys SO's know who he was? Is my fiance just clueless? Tia
My wife watched it, she had no clue who he was or how the story ended. [Reply]
Watching that documentary I was just kinda caught off-guard by how many times Hernandez got blasted out there.
I'm not a Pats fan so I didn't watch him play apart from the highlights, but holy shit he put himself in harms way a lot. And I know Kelce takes some shots as well but I wonder if his height doesn't protect him from some of those straight on collisions. Or if maybe his body control helps him avoid some of the larger impacts.
But shit, Hernandez was getting wrecked.
I also wonder if the legend of Aaron Hernandez hasn't outpaced him as a player a little bit. Sure, he was awfully damn good as a #2 TE who BB could send out there to create mis-matches, but he wasn't much of a blocker and he wasn't built for high volume. When it came down to it, was he maybe just a rich man's Chris Cooley? This wasn't a guy who'd have been a superstar as a #1 TE in an ordinary offense outside of NE, IMO.
Originally Posted by Jerm:
I got A LOT of questions about Urban Meyer and Florida....
No one will ever convince me they didn't know more about what he was doing or even help cover shit up. I'll always believe that.
This was a great documentary BTW, binged it tonight.
Oh good grief. It was quite a stretch where they try to infer that Florida and the Patriots had some culpability in the matter. Just ridiculous. He was a piece of shit human. Ever since he was 17 years old. There are troubled ppl everywhere. You dont give up on them. You can't control what they do. Aaron Hernandez is a sociopath plain and simple. [Reply]
I binge watched it last night as well. My conclusion is, dude had a LOT of things going against him but maybe the combination is what put him over the edge: closet homosexual, abusive father, mom is a piece of human garbage, smoked a ton of pot with shit mixed in at a young age, and played football where he got his bell rung a ton of times. Mix it all up, and you have a recipe for disaster.
BUT...he seemed to me to have more of a dual personality, like he lived a double life. He rationally chose to do that, along with the other shit he did. The killings were not spur of the moment outbursts, like a guy beating his wife or getting into a bar brawl...they were planned out (poorly at that, but planned nonetheless). This guy was a piece of crap and all the other stuff contributed. But as his friend at the end said, Aaron decided to do those things, it wasn't a mental condition that made him evil.
Also, they had that gay dude from the Pats on who came out of the closet...when they showed pics of his playing days, one of them he was in a Chiefs uniform...who was that guy and when did he play for the Chiefs? [Reply]
Originally Posted by BWillie:
Oh good grief. It was quite a stretch where they try to infer that Florida and the Patriots had some culpability in the matter. Just ridiculous. He was a piece of shit human. Ever since he was 17 years old. There are troubled ppl everywhere. You dont give up on them. You can't control what they do. Aaron Hernandez is a sociopath plain and simple.
Meyer himself tried to stop Hernandez from going home at every turn...why do you think that is? A "gut feeling"...?
And it's been long rumored in Gainesville and in CFB circles that they knew more... [Reply]
Watched this as well not too long ago. All I really took out of the documentary was that AH was a dimwitted person with great physical attributes. Whether it be from too many shots to the dome, genetic, or too much dope he certainly wasn't wired right.
Just to make things interesting enough to be documented he decided to be a thug in which he possessed the criminal acumen of Beavis & Butthead.
Actually, that may be too generous. How about Beavis or Butthead.
I would titled the doc: "Inside the Trainwreck of Aaron Hernandez". [Reply]