first dark clouds around Hernandez apparently began circling during his time in high school.
devastated by his father's death, and it caused a change in the young man
responded by lashing out at his family, smoking marijuana and spending his free time hanging around with a rough crowd of young men in Bristol.
he was very, very angry
Hernandez was arrested after an altercation outside a bar in Gainesville. Hernandez received deferred prosecution in the case
After the Gators lost to Auburn on Sept. 29, 2007, a shooting left two men wounded, one critically. According to Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel, Hernandez and three other Florida players were questioned in regard to the incident,
suspended for the season opener, a suspension that he later admitted was for testing positive for marijuana
After that, the off-field issues seemed to quiet down ......mother Terri says via phone while on lunch her job as a school secretary in Bristol. )shared in that belief: "He's my Aaron again. Just now everything's getting better, and it took him three years. I thought I lost him for good. He wasn't the same kid. Now he's back, the same fun-loving Aaron."
many NFL teams were wary of Hernandez's checkered past.
five-year, $40 million contract extension in August 2012.
Hernandez's numbers were down in an injury-plagued 2012 season
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1685469-complete-timeline-of-the-rise-fall-of-aaron-hernandez
When Dennis Hernandez died at 49 in January 2006 after complications from routine hernia surgery, his then-16-year-old son's world was shattered.
Dennis Hernandez was nicknamed "The King." Generous and gregarious, he seemingly touched everyone he met. Thousands poured into the funeral home for his services, Aaron says. There's a memorial in the courtyard of the high school where he worked as a custodian. A yearly golf tournament in his name funds two scholarships for local college-bound students.
It was a hard time at home after his dad's death. "He was just lost." When your guy, your idol, your soul is taken from you, how do you deal with that? I just think there's a part of his life that was not there. He needed discipline; he needed someone to talk to." "It was a mess with a lot of family issues, fighting and disagreements," "I don't go to his grave," he says. "I hide from it. I kind of feel like it didn't happen, still in denial, but I have a lot of support."
Every morning, Hernandez arrived at Meyer's office at 7:30 and read the Bible with his coach.....Says Hernandez, "He helped me through a lot of that stuff. I would have horrible days, and he taught me to put things aside and work through it. We have a great relationship even though he wants to kill me half the time."
"We call him Chico," says offensive guard Mike Pouncey, one large half of the Pouncey twins. Why? "He's the only Puerto Rican on the team. (Hernandez's paternal grandparents were from Puerto Rico.) When you call him Aaron, he doesn't really respond.
A guided tour of his arms reads like his autobiography:.
"On this side, everything is good," he says, starting from his right shoulder. There's a tattoo representing God's hands, a nod to his big brother and to his father and the day he died. There's the sun representing all the good days he had with his dad. Beneath those rays are clouds and rain. "It all ends in heaven," he says, now near his wrist, pointing to the angels.
Then there's his left arm. "There's Jesus' hands on the cross, and that's about the pain we all go through," he says. There's his father's favorite quotes. The phrase "self made." A spider web. "Spiders create their own path. I make my own decisions, don't blame anyone," he says. There's a tribute to his mom and dad, a football. On it goes, not a patch of skin unadorned.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/spor...ec/2009-10-08-gator-wears-heart-on-arms_N.htm
You can take the boy off the streets, but you can't keep him from going back. Stories about Hernandez's downfall will inevitably focus on his "friends," or "the wrong crowd," as these stories do. That implies that the friends are the bad guys, and Hernandez was caught in their web and couldn't get out.
Well, who is to say? Maybe Hernandez is the wrong crowd, as much as his friends are. Maybe a guy who doesn't learn from allegedly shooting a guy in the face has some serious problems with reality.
his brother D.J. was a quarterback,
when he signed a seven-year, $41 million contract last August HE said "This is probably one of the best days of my life. I'll remember this day forever.
I just hope I (Me I found this sad - like he quietly had doubts if he could ever get over his loss and stay in control and break out of gang stuff IMO))keep going, doing
the right things, making the
right decisions so I can have a good life, and be there to
live a good life with my family." That day, Hernandez wrote a $50,000 check to the Myra Kraft Giving Back Fund
When writing about the five-year, $40 million contract extension given to New England Patriots tight end Adrian Hernandez, we briefly touched on the $50,000 donation Hernandez made to the Myra Kraft Foundation, the charity named after the late wife of Patriots owner Robert Kraft, "out of respect for Robert drafting him, [and] for doing his deal two years early." Turns out, the gesture was far more emotional than we knew. Monday also marked the team's annual Charity Gala, and when Hernandez presented Kraft with the check, it got a little dusty in the room.
Aaron came into my office, a little teary-eyed, and presented me with a check for $50,000 to go to the Myra Kraft Giving Back Fund," ...."I said 'Aaron, you don't have to do this, you've already got your contract.' And he said, 'No, it makes me feel good and I want to do it.'
Not only is it $50,000, cause that's not really, that's just the money that really doesn't mean much, with the amount given, it's more, I have a lot more to give back, and all I can do is play my heart out for them,
(me:different interview same theme /self doubt ) make the right decisions, and live life as a Patriot."
But more than the football stuff, Hernandez seemed to grasp a deeper meaning behind the contract extension, which isn't always the case. It's a testament to the culture Kraft has established since he became the team's majority owner in 1994.
There are roughly 60,000 residents of Bristol
If you've followed the case you know that Hernandez -- a hybrid on the field -- has that unique combination of stupidity and recklessness (shell casings in the rental car might be the gold medal winner) that makes him a 78 mph fastball down the middle of the plate to any district attorney with the ability to find a courthouse. Throw some misplaced hubris in there and you've got the guy who stood emotionless in court on Wednesday as his life really came to an end.
charged with murder in the first degree in the killing of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd. Hernandez is also charged with one count of carrying a firearm without a license; two counts of possession of a large capacity firearm; and two counts of possession of a firearm without a valid ID card. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Heres a guy who has a beautiful little baby girl living in a beautiful home in North Attleboro with his girlfriend with nothing but memories to create and a legacy to build. He had become a dynamic player in the Patriots offense and at just the age of 23 was entering the prime of his NFL life.......financial security that would allow them to do pretty much anything they wanted as a family. There could have been family vacations, trips to Disney World,
We dont know whether hes innocent or guilty from a legal standpoint. The evidence against him doesnt seem promising, but then again weve seen enough over the years to know that anything is possible.
What we do know is that hes guilty of even putting himself in this position. Had he not gone out that night and just stayed home with his family, all this could have been avoided.
Hernandez said last year Im engaged now, and I have a baby. So, its just gonna make me think of life a lot differently and doing things
the right way, Now, another one is looking up to me. I cant just be young and reckless Aaron no more. Im gonna
try to do the
right things, become a good father and [her] be raised like I was raised.
One of the more chilling details that came out was the fact that police even had the final texts Lloyd sent to his sister as he sat in the car and seemingly knew that something bad was about to happen.
Before it happened he was just over a month away from training camp and looking to build on all the promise that put him in position to make the most of everything he had done up to that point.
"Now that I'm a Patriot, I have to start living like one, and making the
right decisions for them.
Now instead hell just be a cautionary tale of a player who will forever be remembered in Patriots history for all the wrong reasons..........................................................
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http://itiswhatitis.weei.com/sports...ron-hernandezs-mother-my-son-will-be-cleared/
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nfl/news/20130626/aaron-hernandez-charged/
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AN aside anyone know if the charges were refiled before or after his arrest?
