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Tony Dungy's son found dead
James Dungy, the 18-year-old son of Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy, was found dead in his apartment in Tampa, Fla., Thursday morning. Tony Dungy has left the team temporarily to go to Tampa. More details to come on this breaking news story.
Wow. The guy finally has the chance to win the big one, and he won't be able to bring himself to care.
That really sucks.
Wow. That sucks. Talk about going from high to low. Poor guy. :( :(
I just read about it. That's horrible. I'm starting to get the feeling that Indy is going to have a tough time winning the whole thing. All the injuries are piling up, and now this...
with no real games for almost a month he should just take a leave of absence until the scond week of january
Any report on what happened?
Tod bad... that's every parents' worst nightmare.
And they just signed Jose Cortez to kick. The end is near.
I just checked the TB TV stations, they have it as breaking news, with no info.
The guys over on the Colts MB are saying reports are that this was an apparant suicide. :-\
todays PFT one liner was poorly timed.
QuoteTony Dungy has a pulse, after all.
Just terrible news. :(
That sucks that it had to happen right before Christmas... not that there is a good time to lose a child. :(
I called the Colts to find out where to send a sympathy card/letter. If anyone wants it:
Tony Dungy
Indianapolis Colts
7001 West 56th Street
Indianapolis, IN 46254
Dungy is a really good guy. This is just horrible news for his family. :(
On a side note, how long before the networks start to pimp the Colts as a "Team of Destiny" because of this? :boom
Quote from: Butchers Bill on December 22, 2005, 10:45:24 AM
On a side note, how long before the networks start to pimp the Colts as a "Team of Destiny" because of this? :boom
Sunday.
The local TV networks are implying suicide, but all they really have is:
- it wasn't foul play.
- found unconscious and not breathing by g'friend at 1:30 AM.
- deputies responded and started CPR, unsuccessful.
- police gave "no comment" to suicide question.
Could be too much imbibing?
Quote from: Sgt PSN on December 22, 2005, 10:57:44 AM
Quote from: Butchers Bill on December 22, 2005, 10:45:24 AM
On a side note, how long before the networks start to pimp the Colts as a "Team of Destiny" because of this? :boom
Sunday.
Today on ESPN. My guess- Around the Horn.
Quote from: MadMarchHare on December 22, 2005, 11:01:25 AM
The local TV networks are implying suicide, but all they really have is:
- it wasn't foul play.
- found unconscious and not breathing by g'friend at 1:30 AM.
- deputies responded and started CPR, unsuccessful.
- police gave "no comment" to suicide question.
Could be too much imbibing?
My first thoughts went to accidental overdose.
Quote from: MURP on December 22, 2005, 10:10:48 AM
todays PFT one liner was poorly timed. QuoteTony Dungy has a pulse, after all.
Thankfully that's been pulled off the site.
Quote from: MadMarchHare on December 22, 2005, 11:01:25 AM
The local TV networks are implying suicide, but all they really have is:
- it wasn't foul play.
- found unconscious and not breathing by g'friend at 1:30 AM.
- deputies responded and started CPR, unsuccessful.
- police gave "no comment" to suicide question.
Could be too much imbibing?
Drugs ??? :'( :'( :'(
I can't imagine what Dungy is going through right now. Jesus... losing a child at 18 like that.
Beyond tragic.
:'(
Parents nightmare..out living your children :'( :'(
Colts owner Bill Polian said that QB coach Jim Caldwell has taken over on an interim basis. There is no time table on Dungy's return.
I would imagine that Dungy will not coach this weekend against Seattle but may return for the final game against Arizona although I wouldn't be surprised if he took off the rest of the regular season. His return prior to the playoffs is basically irrelevant at this point.
That's tough on a family, not matter the time of year but especially just before Christams. Lost my dad at Christmas time when I was young. Christmas has just never, ever been the same joyfull event....
This sucks. What a downer.
Let's go Colts! I really didn't care much about the playoffs this year for obivious reasons but I will be cheering for the Colts now.
First off, my heart goes out to Tony and his family. No one should have to bury a child, let alone a child so young.
Quote from: MadMarchHare on December 22, 2005, 11:01:25 AM
The local TV networks are implying suicide, but all they really have is:
- it wasn't foul play.
- found unconscious and not breathing by g'friend at 1:30 AM.
- deputies responded and started CPR, unsuccessful.
- police gave "no comment" to suicide question.
Could be too much imbibing?
He had a page at Myspace, and posted on one of his friend's pages yesterday that he was looking forward to his party, and his day was January 6th.
12/21/2005 9:17:00 AM
fresh, preciate the invite juss hit me up and tell me where iss at. oh yeah i'm workin on my party right now cause az u may not kno, the 6th of jan. iz my day *****. one
12/21/2005 8:59:00 AM
fresh let me kno where the party @, i'm ther my ***** and ay i'm workin on my party cause mines iz on the 6th of Jan
Someone said he's bipolar, but I don't know that it's true. If he was and went off his medicine or messed it up somehow, many bad things could happen.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=41899442&Mytoken=632708349708884615
Very sad, regardless.
Quote12/21/2005 9:17:00 AM
fresh, preciate the invite juss hit me up and tell me where iss at. oh yeah i'm workin on my party right now cause az u may not kno, the 6th of jan. iz my day *****. one
12/21/2005 8:59:00 AM
fresh let me kno where the party @, i'm ther my ***** and ay i'm workin on my party cause mines iz on the 6th of Jan
Looks like he was brain dead WAY before this happened.
Quote from: EJ72 on December 22, 2005, 04:53:16 PM
First off, my heart goes out to Tony and his family. No one should have to bury a child, let alone a child so young.
Quote from: MadMarchHare on December 22, 2005, 11:01:25 AM
The local TV networks are implying suicide, but all they really have is:
- it wasn't foul play.
- found unconscious and not breathing by g'friend at 1:30 AM.
- deputies responded and started CPR, unsuccessful.
- police gave "no comment" to suicide question.
Could be too much imbibing?
He had a page at Myspace, and posted on one of his friend's pages yesterday that he was looking forward to his party, and his day was January 6th.
12/21/2005 9:17:00 AM
fresh, preciate the invite juss hit me up and tell me where iss at. oh yeah i'm workin on my party right now cause az u may not kno, the 6th of jan. iz my day *****. one
12/21/2005 8:59:00 AM
fresh let me kno where the party @, i'm ther my ***** and ay i'm workin on my party cause mines iz on the 6th of Jan
Someone said he's bipolar, but I don't know that it's true. If he was and went off his medicine or messed it up somehow, many bad things could happen.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=41899442&Mytoken=632708349708884615
Very sad, regardless.
Looks like he really wants to know where the party at..drugs..acidantal or suicide my guess :'( :'(
Quote from: rjs246 on December 22, 2005, 06:43:31 PM
Looks like he was brain dead WAY before this happened.
When I first read that writing, I thought it was
igy being quoted. Then I started over and saw my "mistake."
I feel terrible for Dungy and his family as well as the kid's friends and girlfriend. Now the insensitive coward has ruined Christmas for his entire family and friends because everytime this time of year rolls around they'll be reminded of the coward taking his own life.
It's tragic for those people.
But I have no sympathy for the kid who killed himself. If you kill yourself you're a punkass coward.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on December 23, 2005, 09:30:21 AM
But I have no sympathy for the kid who killed himself. If you kill yourself you're a punkass coward.
Hey, don't knock it 'til you've tried it.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on December 23, 2005, 09:30:21 AM
I feel terrible for Dungy and his family as well as the kid's friends and girlfriend. Now the insensitive coward has ruined Christmas for his entire family and friends because everytime this time of year rolls around they'll be reminded of the coward taking his own life.
It's tragic for those people.
But I have no sympathy for the kid who killed himself. If you kill yourself you're a punkass coward.
I couldn't agree more. I give this post a hearty HELL YES.
I love suicide. I encourage it. Kill yourself.
Quote from: Don Ho on December 22, 2005, 03:18:27 PM
This sucks. What a downer.
Let's go Colts! I really didn't care much about the playoffs this year for obivious reasons but I will be cheering for the Colts now.
No offense, but that's really stupid.
link (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2270189)
QuoteNo decision has yet been made on what, if anything, the Colts will wear or do Saturday to honor James Dungy....
To honor an 18 year old suicide? Just because he happened to be the coach's son? I should hope they do nothing. Christ.
Maybe they can all wear pot leaf or .38 logos. Those were the most popular symbols on his webpage.
He's a cowardly little shtein. Took the easy way out, and caused double the pain for the family. farg him.
You people are cowards for not killing yourselves. This kid is a hero.
Nah, we're just lemmings. Lead the way....
I'm a coward, too. But I think about it a lot, if that counts for anything.
Hell, when things were bad, and I thought that not only would I never be allowed out of grad school, but my wife was gonna leave me over it and take my kid with her (she said as much), I wasn't thinking suicide. I was thinking how many profs could I get before the police got me.
I can see I'm not the only one who decided now was the perfect time to make fun of this situation.
TAMPA (AP) — The son of Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy used a belt to hang himself from a ceiling fan, according to the 911 call the teen's girlfriend made when she found him last month.
Antoinette Anderson returned to James Dungy's apartment after a 10-minute walk early Dec. 22 to find him apparently lifeless, according to tapes released Wednesday. The tape is the first public indication how James Dungy, 18, killed himself.
"I think my boyfriend's dead," an anguished Anderson told an emergency dispatcher. "I think he tried to hang himself or something."
She told the dispatcher she had used a knife to cut James Dungy down and that his roommate was asleep in another room.
"Get the roommate up," the dispatcher told Anderson. "You're gonna need some help here, OK?"
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/colts/2006-...dungy-911-call_x.htm
I know this will come off as callous...but those must have been some high ceilings. The dude was 6'7''...interesting way to choose to check out, and I can only assume he wasn't a rabid INXS fan.
He shouldn't have been such a Hoyda, and slit his own throat like that guy a couple months ago.
He should have sewn his icehole shut and kept feeding himself and feeding himself and right before he barfed he should have kicked himself in the stomach. Yeah.
QuoteAntoinette Anderson returned to James Dungy's apartment after a 10-minute walk early Dec. 22 to find him apparently lifeless, according to tapes released Wednesday.
I'm just playing conspiracy theory here, but does anyone else think it's a little strange that he managed to choke himself to death in less than 10 minutes? It's not like he had everything rigged to go before she left the apartment. I'm sure she might have noticed a belt tied to the ceiling fan and a chair directly beneath it. So he probably waited a minute or 2 until she left and then had to set everything up. Maybe that took another minute or 2 leaving him say anywhere between 5 - 7 minutes. And if he was already dead when the girlfriend got home then I seriously doubt he died at the exact moment she walked through the front door. So he must have been dead for at least a minute or so. So now that leaves him a 4 - 6 minute window to actually die. Some people can hold their breath for that long. People have gone unconscious for several minutes, if not longer without breathing and still lived. I'm a relatively heavy smoker and I can hold my breath (just timed myeself) for 2m19s before I start feeling the need for air. I'd say I could probably have held out for another 20 or 30 seconds too. And I'm near 30, not nearly in as good of shape as I was at 18 and I smoke a pack a day. This dude was 18 and played football and was a fairly well conditioned athlete so I think it might take a little more than 6 minutes without air to actually kill him.
I know there's nothing set in stone when it comes to a time table on how long a person can go without oxygen and still live. Everybody's different. But it just seems a little fishy to me.
And since when can a ceiling fan support the weight of an adult or teenager?
I was thinking about that as well. I just went out to my living room and tried to do a pull up on my ceiling fan to see if it could support my weight for a few minutes. Here's what I've learned from the experience:
1. Turn the fan off before attempting to raise your head above the blades.
2. It cannot support the weight for more than 10 seconds.
3. I need to dust my ceiling fan more often.
Quote from: Sgt PSN on January 05, 2006, 10:34:17 PM
I was thinking about that as well. I just went out to my living room and tried to do a pull up on my ceiling fan to see if it could support my weight for a few minutes. Here's what I've learned from the experience:
1. Turn the fan off before attempting to raise your head above the blades.
2. It cannot support the weight for more than 10 seconds.
3. I need to dust my ceiling fan more often.
:-D
And you're defending out nation? We're in trouble! ;)
No, it's totally ok. I'm not in a position to actually do any defending right now. No sir. I'm recruiting the people who do the defending. :D
Quote from: Sgt PSN on January 05, 2006, 10:34:17 PM
I was thinking about that as well. I just went out to my living room and tried to do a pull up on my ceiling fan to see if it could support my weight for a few minutes. Here's what I've learned from the experience:
1. Turn the fan off before attempting to raise your head above the blades.
2. It cannot support the weight for more than 10 seconds.
3. I need to dust my ceiling fan more often.
I just read all of the Schiavo thread again, so I'm laughing and stupid at the moment. This made me laugh even more. :cfhead :cfhead :cfhead
who cares. little whiney rich attention whoring bastich probably. can have anything he wants, and he wants to die. i doubt it. probably just wanted to stage an "attempted suicide", kind of like the people who go across the street, not down the road, and accidentally didn't realize how strong his ceiling fan was.
Quote from: General_Failure on January 05, 2006, 11:09:11 PM
Quote from: Sgt PSN on January 05, 2006, 10:34:17 PM
I was thinking about that as well. I just went out to my living room and tried to do a pull up on my ceiling fan to see if it could support my weight for a few minutes. Here's what I've learned from the experience:
1. Turn the fan off before attempting to raise your head above the blades.
2. It cannot support the weight for more than 10 seconds.
3. I need to dust my ceiling fan more often.
I just read all of the Schiavo thread again, so I'm laughing and stupid at the moment. This made me laugh even more. :cfhead :cfhead :cfhead
GF rarely hands out compliments. I'm making a note of this one.
Quote from: Sgt PSN on January 06, 2006, 08:07:29 AMGF rarely hands out compliments. I'm making a note of this one.
Something must be wrong with him, he's been acting Mr. Nice Guy lately...
edit: I laughed, too.
Quote from: General_Failure on January 05, 2006, 11:09:11 PM
I just read all of the Schiavo thread again, so I'm laughing and stupid at the moment. This made me laugh even more.
I was in tears when I reread that ish last week. Good stuff.
12/21/2005 8:59:00 AM
fresh let me kno where the party @, i'm ther my ***** and ay i'm workin on my party cause mines iz on the 6th of Jan
So, where's the party and what time ?
Quote from: Eagles 3x on January 06, 2006, 09:41:07 AM
12/21/2005 8:59:00 AM
fresh let me kno where the party @, i'm ther my ***** and ay i'm workin on my party cause mines iz on the 6th of Jan
So, where's the party and what time ?
:sly
QuoteDungy's son's death ruled a suicide
Associated Press
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LUTZ, Fla. -- The death of the 18-year-old son of Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy has been ruled a suicide, a medical examiner said Friday.
James Dungy hanged himself from a bedroom ceiling fan with a leather belt, Dr. Jacqueline Lee of the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's Office wrote in her final autopsy report.
Authorities had ruled out foul play in December, but toxicology results were pending. Those tests were negative, except for caffeine and medication paramedics used in attempts to resuscitate the teen, Lee said.
Dungy was found by his girlfriend on Dec. 22, less than a half-hour after last being seen alive, according to the medical examiner's office. The teen's girlfriend called paramedics, who attempted to resuscitate him. He was pronounced dead at a Tampa hospital.
James Dungy had been taking extension classes at the University of South Florida, authorities said.
Tony Dungy coached the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1996 to 2001.
No shtein.
It took 3 months to rule a kid hanging from a ceiling fan as a suicide??? :sly
Quote from: PhillyGirl on February 17, 2006, 08:47:54 PM
Quote
Authorities had ruled out foul play in December, but toxicology results were pending. Those tests were negative, except for caffeine and medication paramedics used in attempts to resuscitate the teen, Lee said.
~Only caffeine and resuscitation meds, huh? Clearly he was off his psych meds, and it cost him and the Dungy family dearly. Considering that he attempted to take his life back in October (purposeful drug overdose in which he called parametics), the fact that there were no psychotropic drugs in his system is puzzling.
~I wonder why he was allowed to continue living on his own and attend school when he tried to kill himself before? A suicide attempt speaks to severe emotional problems that call for intensive help, withdrawal from school, and being in the care of a guardian.
~One article said that he suffered a concussion several years ago when he was standing on his father's sideline and some football players came careening out-of-bounds and crashing into him. Concussions can predispose one to depression. Just a theory...
~He didn't look like the rest of the Dungy children. Was he a child from a previous relationship? Are all 5 of those kids the children of Dungy and his current wife? A 21-year-old, a (deceased) 19-year-old, a 13-year-old...then a 5-year-old and a 4-year old. I wonder...
Quote from: Crossroids on February 18, 2006, 02:42:30 AM
Quote from: PhillyGirl on February 17, 2006, 08:47:54 PM
Quote
Authorities had ruled out foul play in December, but toxicology results were pending. Those tests were negative, except for caffeine and medication paramedics used in attempts to resuscitate the teen, Lee said.
~Only caffeine and resuscitation meds, huh? Clearly he was off his psych meds, and it cost him and the Dungy family dearly. Considering that he attempted to take his life back in October (purposeful drug overdose in which he called parametics), the fact that there were no psychotropic drugs in his system is puzzling.
~I wonder why he was allowed to continue living on his own and attend school when he tried to kill himself before? A suicide attempt speaks to severe emotional problems that call for intensive help, withdrawal from school, and being in the care of a guardian.
~One article said that he suffered a concussion several years ago when he was standing on his father's sideline and some football players came careening out-of-bounds and crashing into him. Concussions can predispose one to depression. Just a theory...
~He didn't look like the rest of the Dungy children. Was he a child from a previous relationship? Are all 5 of those kids the children of Dungy and his current wife? A 21-year-old, a (deceased) 19-year-old, a 13-year-old...then a 5-year-old and a 4-year old. I wonder...
According to imdb.com, (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1763081/bio) the Dungys have been married since 1982.
Coward.
Hero.
Dumbass