Tragedy Strikes Close to Home!

In the early morning hours of Saturday, December 8^th, 2012, a bad decision was made by a 24 year old man, who got behind the wheel of a car after being at a party near downtown Dallas, and drove while he had too much to drink.

He put not only his own life in danger but he also placed the life of his passenger in danger. Not too mention the other lives that are on the road, that had no idea that he had been drinking.

Now I can end this story here—you can insert any name of any person you know that has done this before. Lord knows we have known someone who was either involved in an accident or maybe lost a loved one to a drunk driver, in our lifetime.

However, this story involves a HIGH Profile person, someone who is a professional athlete, someone who thinks at times, that they are entitled, the ones that when they get pulled over, or after they have been in an accident, usually the first thing out of their mouth is usually “Don’t you know who I am?”… like that’s going to make this situation any better or go away!

Here’s the awful truth. A person made a bad choice, and in the end… and tore two families apart!

Josh Brent a Dallas Cowboy player, was driving late at night, on a piece of road way that is usually pretty dangerous even in day light—and one can only imagine what its like when there is very little light on the road way, and then the next thing you know—the car he is driving, loses control, and flips onto its roof and the passenger, his friend from College is tossed around like a rag doll inside the car, and is declared dead shortly after he arrives at the hospital.

It brings back memories of Dewayne Goodrich, that was drunk, and was driving along a Dallas highway—came upon a car with their flashers on—and smashed into that disabled car, killing the good Samaritan on the side of the road—Goodrich was convicted and served 8 years in jail, another incident involved Eric Williams when he took the curve a little too fast along LBJ Freeway in North Dallas at the North Dallas Tollway—and smashed into the retaining wall, and lets not forget, that Former Dallas Cowboy Wide receiver Drew Pearson had an accident as well—along LBJ Freeway in East Dallas where he was returning from a charity basketball game—and was driving his younger brother Carey Mark Pearson also known as Moose, struck the back end of a tractor trailer, and Carey was killed, and Drew lost his football career because of injuries. His blood alcohol level was just slightly above the average, he believes he nodded off and that was all it took.

All it takes is a split second of decision, that is the wrong one, and your life or the lives around are destroyed or changed forever!

Josh Brent will have to live with the choice for the rest of his life, that the life that was taken away was that of his best friend, and a person he considered to be his little brother! The grief that he will feel, and the steps that he will have to take, will be long and they will be painful!

The other people that are affected are those who are in that locker room at Valley Ranch, and those players and staff members will have to find their own way of dealing with this tragedy.

For the second time in one week time span, the NFL has been struck with deaths. However, this time, we will have to deal with the fact that one was selfish, and the other was just plain stupid! Either way—those left behind will have to find with in themselves to find answers and peace!

Just a Thought!