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Sociology > Depression |
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"Noon Cat Nick" |
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09 Nov 2007 01:18:06 PM |
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"Deaths in the family require advance notice" |
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7426438?MSNHPHCP>1=10637
The [NFL Minnesota] Vikings mean business in 2007. But few knew they
would take it this far.
The team has informed wide receiver Troy Williamson that he will be
docked one game's pay for missing three practices as well as last
Sunday's game against San Diego in order to attend his grandmother's
funeral.
Williamson stands to lose $25,588.24 of his $435,000 base salary, the
Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.
"It's really kind of out of my realm," coach Brad Childress said,
according to the Star-Tribune. "It's a business principle,
organizationally. If you don't show up, how does that work? We talked
about that today."
Williamson, who returned to the team Wednesday, said he did not regret
his decision to spend the time with his family.
"I'd throw this football thing away for my family," Williamson was
quoted as saying in the newspaper. "I know it's a business and I know
(the Vikings have) got other obligations when it comes to them and their
family also.
"I know how I feel towards mine. ... I feel like I wouldn't have been
overdoing it if I had stayed home a little longer but you've got other
people and their opinions."
Williamson took charge in coordinating arrangements for the funeral of
his maternal grandmother, Celestine Williamson, who died in Aiken, S.C.
As many as 75 family members returned to South Carolina for the funeral,
with Williamson funding the trips for nearly 30 of them.
"This is a grandma I was always around," growing up, he told the
Star-Tribune. "She taught me pretty much everything I know from cooking
to driving to playing cards. I pretty much learned that from my grandma."
The death of his grandmother, however, is not the only tragedy that has
affected Williamson. Williamson's older brother, Carlton, has been in
and out of a coma since a September car accident in Georgia.
"He had some chairs on the back of his truck for one of my homeboy's
wedding," Williamson said. "He was taking it to them. He was going too
fast around the corner and the truck ended up flipping. It flipped like
three times, and he ended up flying out of it."
Williamson spent a day with his brother after the accident, and several
more during the Vikings' bye week. He was able to see his brother once
again last week when he traveled to Georgia from Aiken.
"We get some signs that he's doing good one day and then it's back
down," Williamson said. "It's fluctuating. Right now, he's just pretty
much comatose.
"I tried to put my brother's thing on the back burner, but when this
came up I had to get up out of here and try to take some time," he said.
"When it came to my grandma, and I knew I wasn't going to be able to see
her anymore, I knew I had to go home and handle this stuff pretty much
for my family and my mom. My mom took it hardest out of all my aunts and
uncles because she was the one there taking care of my grandma, trying
to make sure my grandma was straight and stuff."
Childress would not say whether Williamson would be active for
Minnesota's game this week against Green Bay.
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| User: "used2be" |
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| Title: Re: "Deaths in the family require advance notice" |
09 Nov 2007 03:16:04 PM |
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"Noon Cat Nick" <chatdemidiSPAMBEGONE@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:On2Zi.193123$Fc.114645@attbi_s21...
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7426438?MSNHPHCP>1=10637
The [NFL Minnesota] Vikings mean business in 2007. But few knew they would
take it this far.
The team has informed wide receiver Troy Williamson that he will be docked
one game's pay for missing three practices as well as last Sunday's game
against San Diego in order to attend his grandmother's funeral.
Williamson stands to lose $25,588.24 of his $435,000 base salary, the
Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.
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wow...that's pretty brutal!
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