RIP Marion Barber
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Well said, Tony. Misspelled ‘sheer’ though
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I remember how Parcells used to rail about the violent running style, saying his career would be shortened running that way, absorbing excess punishment.
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Terence Newman on last encounter with ex-Cowboys teammate Marion Barber: ‘I was scared’
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Terence Newman was scared that his former Dallas Cowboys teammate Marion Barber might punch him the last time that they saw each other before Barber’s mysterious death.
Newman was in the middle of discussing the toll that football takes on the body— especially playing for a “mean-ass coach” like Bill Parcells — with Tyler Dunne of GoLongTD.com when he got the news of Barber’s death. Newman then told a harrowing story about seeing Barber about three years earlier, when he was driving to the gas station about a mile from his home, near where Barber was living in a high-rise building.
“I see this guy walking down the street — in the rain,” Newman said. “I get to the gas station and it’s Marion. I hadn’t seen Marion in a while, but I heard he had fallen on hard times and wasn’t doing too well. So, we talked and exchanged numbers, but I was scared when I saw him.
“He looked bad. He looked like he wasn’t there, like he was a different person, like he couldn’t function. And that’s probably why he was walking and not driving. When I tell you I was scared, I thought he might swing on me. I was actually scared.”
The 38-year-old Barber was found dead on June 1 by police conducting a wellness check. No official cause of death has been released.
But Newman expressed suspicions that it had to do with concussions and possible chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the brain disease that has been linked to the suicides of many former football stars.
“He had a look but also his face was just droopy,” Newman said. “It looked like he was homeless. Like he lived on the streets. I guess he had so many concussions that it really impacted him. … I think that had to play some type of role in whatever happened to him.”
Barber carried the ball 1,156 times during six seasons with the Cowboys and a last stop with the 2011 Chicago Bears. Newman was Barber’s teammate for that entire run with the Cowboys and ultimately retired after his 15th season in 2017.
Cowboys running back Marion Barber III carries the ball during a game against the Giants in 2009.AP
Newman also mentioned a former Kansas State teammate, Jarrod Cooper, who was a “kamikaze” on special teams and led with his head to deliver big hits. Cooper has “advance stages of CTE and was bedridden for half of a month,” according to Newman.
“The guys who played the game like that — Junior Seau [and] the guys who’ve taken their own lives — if they were alive right now,” Newman said, “they would tell you to make it more of a finesse game.”
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Ryan Dunleavy
Terence Newman was scared that his former Dallas Cowboys teammate Marion Barber might punch him the last time that they saw each other before Barber’s mysterious death.
Newman was in the middle of discussing the toll that football takes on the body— especially playing for a “mean-ass coach” like Bill Parcells — with Tyler Dunne of GoLongTD.com when he got the news of Barber’s death. Newman then told a harrowing story about seeing Barber about three years earlier, when he was driving to the gas station about a mile from his home, near where Barber was living in a high-rise building.
“I see this guy walking down the street — in the rain,” Newman said. “I get to the gas station and it’s Marion. I hadn’t seen Marion in a while, but I heard he had fallen on hard times and wasn’t doing too well. So, we talked and exchanged numbers, but I was scared when I saw him.
“He looked bad. He looked like he wasn’t there, like he was a different person, like he couldn’t function. And that’s probably why he was walking and not driving. When I tell you I was scared, I thought he might swing on me. I was actually scared.”
The 38-year-old Barber was found dead on June 1 by police conducting a wellness check. No official cause of death has been released.
But Newman expressed suspicions that it had to do with concussions and possible chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the brain disease that has been linked to the suicides of many former football stars.
“He had a look but also his face was just droopy,” Newman said. “It looked like he was homeless. Like he lived on the streets. I guess he had so many concussions that it really impacted him. … I think that had to play some type of role in whatever happened to him.”
Barber carried the ball 1,156 times during six seasons with the Cowboys and a last stop with the 2011 Chicago Bears. Newman was Barber’s teammate for that entire run with the Cowboys and ultimately retired after his 15th season in 2017.
Cowboys running back Marion Barber III carries the ball during a game against the Giants in 2009.APNewman also mentioned a former Kansas State teammate, Jarrod Cooper, who was a “kamikaze” on special teams and led with his head to deliver big hits. Cooper has “advance stages of CTE and was bedridden for half of a month,” according to Newman.
“The guys who played the game like that — Junior Seau [and] the guys who’ve taken their own lives — if they were alive right now,” Newman said, “they would tell you to make it more of a finesse game.”
Terence Newman on last encounter with ex-Cowboys teammate Marion Barber: ‘I was scared’
Terence Newman was scared that his former Dallas Cowboys teammate Marion Barber might punch him the last time that they saw each other before Barber’s mysterious death.
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I don't remember MBIII having a problem with concussions but it certainly sounds like he was dealing with CTE. The NFL didn't start implementing concussion protocols until 2011....so who knows how many times he "got his bell rung" and kept playing.
Makes me wonder if he'd still be alive today if he came into the league 5 years later.
Makes me wonder if he'd still be alive today if he came into the league 5 years later.
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he was a violent runner. Parcells used to harp on him about it, knowing it wouldnt last long.
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I'm sure it happened all the time and he just kept playing. The mentality of football players in general is that if you complain of something you're being weak or somehow lesser than. Head trauma this is especially true because it doesn't necessarily show up on the field like you're hurt afterward.
I can still remember in highschool when a player got his bell rung so bad that he was vomiting on the sideline. Everyone on our team including the coach knew what happened. And as soon as he stopped vomiting the coach put him back in the game. I don't think that is unusual.
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Former Dallas Cowboys RB Marion Barber died of heat stroke, according to medical examiner
Former Dallas Cowboys running back Marion Barber III died of an accidental heat stroke, according to a report by the Collin County Medical Examiner’s office....
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Funny how it flashed on my Apple feed and there wasn’t shit on Twitter at the time.now Mac Engel can stop writing "CTE! CTE!"