Chris Henry Dead

This past week the world found out that 26-year-old Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver, Chris Henry, died because of complications he sustained after falling out of the bed of his girlfriend's parents' pickup truck earlier in the week. He was running after his girlfriend, who was getting away from him after Henry and her had an argument. What a tragedy! It's a shame that someone so young, and so talented can just die out of the blue. It really gets you thinking about the important things in your life whenever someone dies.

This makes me wonder why in the first place would Henry jump into a moving pickup truck? I mean, if your girlfriend is leaving with her parents, you can try to convince her before she is in motion inside of the truck. Now, I'm not trying to bash Henry, I'm just stating my opinion on how his dumb decision cost him his life. He was a great football player. He just made a dumb decision, like a lot of his troubled young career, and this time it finally caught up with him. The impact of Henry's death was shown throughout the league last week, and especially on Henry's team, the Cincinnati Bengals.

Besides Henry's family, the person who took the death the hardest was probably fellow wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals, Chad Ochocinco. I still think Johnson sounds better, though (Johnson was his last name before he changed it). Name-changing aside let's get back to Henry. When Ochocinco was interviewed by the press following the death of Henry, you could see how hard he was trying to hold back his tears. Now, I think it takes some guts for a football player, and especially one as tough as Ochocinco, to cry in front of the camera, but that's just me.

What made me kind of angry was the fact that Ochocinco was not allowed to wear Henry's number 15, because of league rules. I think the NFL should have let this one go just for one game. I mean a teammate did just die! But this just shows how strict some of the rules of the NFL are, and make me wonder if they are just a little too strict.

All negatory comments aside, I would like to end this post with a simple message. R.I.P. Chris Henry and may you never be forgotten.

"Above: Chris Henry, Bengals wide receiver, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com"