Source: Brent wants to attend memorial **Update** Eyewitness account post 13**

[ThoughtExperiment]

Jerry brown must have been quite the personality to have effected so many in the organization in such a short period.

Everyone involved in this is making me sick as they are shamelessly using this tragedy for their own ends.

Got to agree with you there. It's a tragedy whenever a young person dies like this, of course. But the PC today was about 30 minutes of how much he'd touched everyone, how special he was to everyone, etc. I know they aren't going to say, "He was just a practice squad guy, who cares", but it did seem a little over the top and a little self-serving.

 

[Sheik]

You're trying to tell me his best friend that has been with him for many years and the one that got him to Dallas let his friend burn to death when he was right there?

Bullshit. I don't believe that shit for a damn minute. I think this bitch is looking to get her face on TV. The shit she says is way off of everything that has been reported.

UPDATE: I saw all the other comments now. Didn't mean to pile on. I just got timestamped to oblivion.

lol

 

[jeebus]

If any of you are riding in a car with me and this happens I'm doing the same thing.

How I was raised.

By the same thing do you mean watch us burn alive in the street or attend the funeral service after killing us?

Because the former is unacceptable but the latter is part of the deal. If your boy gets all sh1t housed with you then he takes his own risk when he gets in the car with you.

 

[Jon88]

By the same thing do you mean watch us burn alive in the street or attend the funeral service after killing us?

Because the former is unacceptable but the latter is part of the deal. If your boy gets all sh1t housed with you then he takes his own risk when he gets in the car with you.

Both

 

[ZeroClub]

Got to agree with you there. It's a tragedy whenever a young person dies like this, of course. But the PC today was about 30 minutes of how much he'd touched everyone, how special he was to everyone, etc. I know they aren't going to say, "He was just a practice squad guy, who cares", but it did seem a little over the top and a little self-serving.

It'd be interesting to know how the story would differ had Brown died in such a way that didn't involve another Cowboys player. I'm sure the reporting would have been different had Brown died in the car of a random drunk neighbor.

There is some controversy (social awkwardness) in voicing sorrow for Josh Brent, who is responsible for making some very bad choices that led to this tragedy. But I am sure that the team has such feelings for Brent and that those feelings likely intensify what the team feels and says about Brown.

 

[marionbarberthe4th]

Less awkward than the roses thrown at javon belcher

 

[superpunk]

Ed Werder ‏@Edwerderespn

How's this for forgiveness and compassion: Jerry Brown's family asks that Josh Brent meet them at airport, sit by them at memorial service.

 

[Midswat]

Sounds like Jerry Browns mother hated him.

That's fucked up.

 

[Jon88]

I guess the fat cow who said she was at the scene is telling a big lie.

 

[bbgun]

I guess the fat cow who said she was at the scene is telling a big lie.

was she exposed or something? link?

 

[LAZARUS_LOGAN]

Ed Werder ‏@Edwerderespn

How's this for forgiveness and compassion: Jerry Brown's family asks that Josh Brent meet them at airport, sit by them at memorial service.

Now I'd really feel bad if I was Josh.

 

[superpunk]

do you think he was feeling at all good about having killed his best friend?

 

[Midswat]

He drove 100 miles an hour while drunk then left him trapped in a burning car.

But I'm sure the fact that Jerry died is eating him alive.

 

[Midswat]

In related news: Osama felt bad about that whole 9/11 thing.

 

[superpunk]

I doubt the truth of the "left him burning" story.

It's tough. I'm sure all of us have driven a friend drunk before. I'm sure all of us have gotten in the car with a drunk friend before - which is something alot of people are forgetting, that Jerry Brown made a choice to get in the car with Brent the same as Brent made a choice to drive drunk.

 

[Jon88]

In related news: Osama felt bad about that whole 9/11 thing.

Why? The US government did that and blamed him for it.

 

[dbair1967]

In related news: Osama felt bad about that whole 9/11 thing.

so are you saying a Navy SEAL is going to take out Brent?

 

[Midswat]

I doubt the truth of the "left him burning" story.

It's tough. I'm sure all of us have driven a friend drunk before. I'm sure all of us have gotten in the car with a drunk friend before - which is something alot of people are forgetting, that Jerry Brown made a choice to get in the car with Brent the same as Brent made a choice to drive drunk.

In my younger days I drove drunk plenty. But I always knew I was drunk, and I drove safe (read: paranoid) as a result.

I didn't try to jump curbs in excess of 100 miles per hour.

 

[Iamtdg]

I doubt the truth of the "left him burning" story.

It's tough. I'm sure all of us have driven a friend drunk before. I'm sure all of us have gotten in the car with a drunk friend before - which is something alot of people are forgetting, that Jerry Brown made a choice to get in the car with Brent the same as Brent made a choice to drive drunk.

See? We can agree if you just try hard enough.

 

[superpunk]

In my younger days I drove drunk plenty. But I always knew I was drunk, and I drove safe (read: paranoid) as a result.

I didn't try to jump curbs in excess of 100 miles per hour.

Noone is denying Brent did one of the stupidest things imaginable - but so did Brown. And I think Brown's mother realizes that. Brown paid the ultimate price, but Brent is paying and will pay a pretty stiff one too, even if he never does a day of jail time.