Reply #36: I found the article, and here's some of the father's remarks:

[Judi Lynn]

Dungy dabbed away tears at times, but his message throughout was clear: His son was a "sweet young boy" who struggled with many of the same issues as others his age.

"As he got a little older, like all teenagers, he was searching for who that person was inside of him. Who he was going to be. ... And like most of us, I think he went through a time as a teenager that he wasn't sure his parents always had the best advice. He wasn't sure that we always had his best interest at heart," the coach said.

"My daughter Tiara said it best the other day. She said: `I just wish he could have made it until he was 20. Because when you're 17 or 18, sometimes the things you guys say to us don't always make sense. ... When I got to 20, they started making sense again."'
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/football/nfl/12/27/bc.fbn.dungy.sson.ap/?cnn=yes

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Oh, yeah. Read the article and I'm fit to be tied. Why, I've never been so steamed. :sarcasm:

I'm not sure what kind of personality gets mad that hundreds of people attended this funeral. What would you recommend? They should put the body in an old car and push it into a lake?

The father is a fine, fine man. Undoubtedly his entire family is terrific, too, including the son who was overwhelmed by life for a moment. People who have never been deeply depressed and frightened are simply too shallow for words. Or they are Republicans.