“He helped each of us get better. A tremendous student athlete,” said Jovan Belcher’s coach Jack
Cosgrove, of the University of Maine Black Bears, a CAA football
powerhouse.
Jovan’s jersey 59 retired, at
his age of twenty five. His versatility in wrestling and football, first
recognized at West Babylon High School on Long Island’s South Shore, he signed
as a free agent, becoming the linebacker for the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs.
Before yielding his dream gone
berserk, taking his own life, at the team’s reality scene
II
Her son and Kassandra been in a
clash of temperaments over her coming home late after a night out at a concert
with friends. The rhetoric going to the edge as the game clock ticked away into
the ensuing chain of causation and oblivion.
Hailing from Austen, Texas, a
community college student, bent on becoming a school teacher.. A Chief’s wife
introduced her to the linebacker. With four years of tackling stats and one
sack, Jovan seemed to be a star in his own right.
His daughter’s Facebook poasting
“Just hangin w/mommy”
III
Who were his heroes? The idols of his unconscious?
Jackie Robinson who broke the
color line in baseball? Michael Strahan ,a tackle himself,who took over Regis
Philbin’s 40 year role on the morning tee vee talk show circuit?
III
O.J.Simpson of Hertz notoriety? The villainy in his Cqalifornia manse.The chopper chase on the San Diego Freeway. Its imagery on the small screen
But here a student athlete. His priorities topsy turvy
.Matriculating in child Developoment and Family Education. Where were the
omens?
A homecoming at West babylon High School, embracing old friends
and former teammates, showing off his three month old beautiful daughter. His
“never give up” attitude
The city that never sleeps, the Long Island Railroad
chugging along...Lynbrook, Rockville Center, Baldwin, Freeport (South Long
Beach Ave) Massapequa Massapequa Park, Babylon...
December 3, 2012
