says Rolando McClain in the ESPN article regarding his abrupt retirement. Now obviously McClain shouldn't have made such an irresponsible and possibly defamatory comment, but do you guys think ESPN is also at fault for allowing those words to be printed?

Here's the swipe from ESPN.com


Rolando McClain felt so full of anger before he walked away from the game that he was worried he would do something he would regret.

"I felt like Aaron Hernandez, like I just wanted to kill somebody," McClain said in an interview for this week's ESPN The Magazine.

After a string of off-field trouble, McClain was released by the Oakland Raiders in April and signed with the Baltimore Ravens. But he abruptly decided to retire at the age of 23.

McClain in ESPN The Mag
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He eventually returned to Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he had been a star at Alabama, to get his life together. Among the goals he decided to set for himself: To finish his degree.

The peaceful life in a college town stands in stark contrast to the pressures and trouble he experienced in his NFL life.

According to the interview, from the moment he signed a contract with the Raiders for a guaranteed $23 million, he became the target of friends and relatives. During a six-month span, he said he spent almost $600,000, mostly on cars, to satisfy requests for money.

He started to lose his love for the game and kept getting into trouble off the field. In December 2011, he was arrested in a shooting. In January 2013, he was arrested for having his car windows tinted too dark and for providing a false identity to police. Ten days after signing with the Ravens, he was arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

McClain felt that if he stayed on the same path, he "would have ended up locked in a cage like an animal. That had to be the only outcome."

Raised in a single-parent home with guns, violence and drugs all around him, McClain ran away at 15 and lived on friends' couches. Football was an outlet for his growing anger. But he said "football was my mask."

He has thought about attending therapy but isn't sure.

"I don't know if I'm ready to know, man, why I was so angry," he said.

For now, he has found some peace away from the game, though he does hope to return to the NFL, maybe as soon as next season.
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Lately I've had the strangest feeling.... that you were GOOOONNNNEEEE

Hernandez didn't get frustrated and want to kill somebody

Dude is, like, an actual killer who does it routinely

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O_E: "Acts like an asshole and posts with imperial disdain"




"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

that?

he's the antithesis of the hot head killer.

he got bookmarks. smartphone apps reminding him "it's 4:45pm. have you finished your scheduled killing yet?" in his notifications window.




peace & blessings,

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Hernandez is an actual psychopathic killer and I don't think it's really fair to compare other people to him, besides other psychopathic killers.

I don't think it's THAT much of a stretch to say Rolando could have been that hothead killer though if he kept flying down the wrong path. I mean the guy was convicted of assaulting someone and shooting a gun right next to their head. It was later appealed and the case was dropped after the victim got a cash settlement and decided not to press more charges, but it's not that huge of a stretch to think the guy could have gotten in a fight and shot at someone the next time.

I didn't like the guy as a player when he was on the Raiders, but I'm glad he's made positive steps in his life since then to be a more stable person.

ESPN is at fault for printing such harsh allegations against an outstanding citizen such as the former tight end for that boston team.

I want to throw my remote every time Greeny mentions how "no one saw the Aaron Hernandez situation coming" on Mike & Mike

If somebody says something that crazy, you have to print it. It's not their job to protect people. It's their job to interview him and print what he says.

it's getting printed.

Did dude at least say this on top of a dope beat?

I felt like A-Hern, I wanted to kill somebody.
These bitches is shady, you know its the truth,
try to get me for child support, I knock'em off like Carruth.

Got enough babymama drama, I'm sick of being friendly,
Like Jovan I give'em 9 hot ones and ride off in a Bentley.
But I'm free all day like OJ, I got a lawyer that's Jewish,
I ain't going out like a sucka, I'm getting off like Ray Lewis.

>I felt like A-Hern, I wanted to kill somebody.
>These bitches is shady, you know its the truth,
>try to get me for child support, I knock'em off like Carruth.
>
>Got enough babymama drama, I'm sick of being friendly,
>Like Jovan I give'em 9 hot ones and ride off in a Bentley.
>But I'm free all day like OJ, I got a lawyer that's Jewish,
>I ain't going out like a sucka, I'm getting off like Ray
>Lewis.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAFZnvTfFAs

Unless they tried to make it seem like that part of the conversation would be off the record, they're completely in the right here.

the article is a positive one: how he saw himself going down the wrong path and corrected it. not that espn would be at fault either way because he DID say it, but they're not really promoting that quote as a summary of the article either.

cysing up drama for clicks.