When did it become ok?

[Easy Mac]

When did it become acceptable to make fun of someone who attempted to committ suicide and may/may not be sufferring from depression? And when did it become ok for the media to not only say its acceptableto make fun, but openly root for it to happen. All I've heard from the media all week is how the Philly fans are going to go off on TO, and the media has been completely complicit with it.

I know people hate TO, but how does this look to everyone else who is thinking about committing suicide? "People will openly mock and deride you for doing so!" How does it make people with depression feel when they see or hear how they're going to make fun of him by chanting "OD OD".

I've gone through some shit and am on Prozac. I never felt like I was depressed, but obviously something was going on. It makes me sick that the media has been egging this on. To me, it doesn't matter if he did/did not try to commit suicide. We don't know and the media doesn't know. I just find it sad that the media doesn't care any of the impact it may be having by basically pleading with a group of people to make fun of someone who may have been depressed and tried to commit suicide. I'm glad Joe Buck can get up in arms about a fake moon, but still talk glowingly about an OD OD chant.

[DaddyTorgo]

I think if he had come out and said that that is what happened people wouldn't be making fun of him. but by denying it he basically says "well that's not what was happening so it's okay to make fun of."

not saying it's right or wrong, just an explanation.

[Easy Mac]

I see that, but I'd also say there are a decent percent of people who deny attempting suicide when they did (not saying TO, just in general), so I don't really think thats a justification.

[LionsFan10]

The simple answer is that there is no justification for how the fans/media have reacted since T.O's "accidental" overdose (I put accidental in quotations because nobody but T.O really knows what happened that day).

But, since it's Terrell Ownes and not one of the "faces" of the NFL, it's okay to chant thing's like "O.D." Then again, this is the same crowd that boo'd relentlessy last Monday everytime Michael Irvin spoke on NFL Countdown before the Monday night broadcast. It's also the same crowd that cheered when Irvin was laid out in the field not moving, due to a neck injury.

[st.cronin]

It's not at all clear that he attempted suicide, so you're arguing from a faulty premise.

[timmynausea]

I know people hate TO, but how does this look to everyone else who is thinking about committing suicide? "People will openly mock and deride you for doing so!" How does it make people with depression feel when they see or hear how they're going to make fun of him by chanting "OD OD".

Maybe I have a really sick sense of humor, but there's something funny about asking how depressed, suicidal people are going to feel about this. My guess is that they will continue to feel depressed and suicidal, and that how T.O. is treated is the least of their problems.

I do see your point, however, and I agree that the chanting is in poor taste and also that Joe Buck sucks. I think there is an unfortunate stigma attached to depression, but it's hard to say whether or not T.O.'s treatment is really a part of that just because his situation was ambiguous.

[JonInMiddleGA]

A couple of thoughts on this:
1) I don't think the fans in Philly really need the media to set them off. A combination of oxygen & alcohol usually does the trick.
2) This is, I think, more about Owens than anything else. If his mother had died on Thursday I imagine there would have been pictures of her on signs in the stadium as well as chants related to it. In short, nothing is sacred to those involved in the chants so there's no real reason to believe depression/
suicide/whatever would be either.

[Crapshoot]

A couple of thoughts on this:
1) I don't think the fans in Philly really need the media to set them off. A combination of oxygen & alcohol usually does the trick.


Okay, I laughed out loud at this one. :D

[Toddzilla]

The fans in Philly are not going off on T.O. because he attempted suicide (or whatever). They are going off on T.O. because he is the world's single biggest self-absorbed jackass attention whore.

[Warhammer]

It's not at all clear that he attempted suicide, so you're arguing from a faulty premise.

We might not know, but after hearing the tape of the 911 call and his "publicist" talk about things later, there is no way this was NOT a suicide attempt.

[Galaxy]

The fans in Philly are not going off on T.O. because he attempted suicide (or whatever). They are going off on T.O. because he is the world's single biggest self-absorbed jackass attention whore.

But to use his personal life in that kind of situation as a target doesn't make it right.

[Raiders Army]

Buck's an asshole and I'm surprised that the Philly fans can get the cheese steak out of their mouths to chant. ;)

[MizzouRah]

The fans in Philly are not going off on T.O. because he attempted suicide (or whatever). They are going off on T.O. because he is the world's single biggest self-absorbed jackass attention whore.

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[Shkspr]

The fans in Philly are not going off on T.O. because he attempted suicide (or whatever). They are going off on T.O. because he is the world's single biggest self-absorbed jackass attention whore.


And Santa Claus is also kind of a jerk.

[sterlingice]

And Santa Claus is also kind of a jerk.

The man's a known criminal and has more counts of breaking and entering than anyone on record. He got what was coming to him.

SI