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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - I’m not sure how anyone else is feeling. But I’m just sad.
And it’s not just because another athlete – yet another boxer – has died too soon.
Sports star or not, it’s a tragedy when anyone dies.
Because somewhere, regardless of a person’s notoriety or bank balance or station in life, someone else cries and feels an emptiness that the fallen one used to fill.
Whether it’s their father, their mother, a sibling or a trusted friend, everyone feels it. And regardless of the circumstances involved or the perceptions on the outside, it’s difficult.
So whomever and wherever they are, I feel worst today for those who mourn Vernon Forrest.
But in my own little way, I feel bad for all of us as sports fans, too.
I don’t know about anyone else, but each time I read a headline or hear a broadcast indicating yet another big-time athlete has met yet another untimely end – whether by his own hand or someone else’s – I feel I’ve also lost a little something.
When I got a text Sunday on a runway in Newark – “V. Forrest dead in ATL” – it happened again. [details]
And it’s not just because another athlete – yet another boxer – has died too soon.
Sports star or not, it’s a tragedy when anyone dies.
Because somewhere, regardless of a person’s notoriety or bank balance or station in life, someone else cries and feels an emptiness that the fallen one used to fill.
Whether it’s their father, their mother, a sibling or a trusted friend, everyone feels it. And regardless of the circumstances involved or the perceptions on the outside, it’s difficult.
So whomever and wherever they are, I feel worst today for those who mourn Vernon Forrest.
But in my own little way, I feel bad for all of us as sports fans, too.
I don’t know about anyone else, but each time I read a headline or hear a broadcast indicating yet another big-time athlete has met yet another untimely end – whether by his own hand or someone else’s – I feel I’ve also lost a little something.
When I got a text Sunday on a runway in Newark – “V. Forrest dead in ATL” – it happened again. [details]