Former Eagle Andre Waters Commits Suicide

[Eagles1 in London]

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/16059823.htm

Not sure that he's anything other than a footnote, but around Philly, he was part of the most beloved defense in our teams history.

Here's hoping that he, Jerome and Reggie are up there gang tackling Johnny Unitas at the buffet table.

 

[Oz]

Oh wow. I loved watching him play. This is a shock.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Terrible news.

 

[shockey]

terrible.

R.I.P.

if the suicide angle is true, how ironic that "muddy" waters would lay the ultimate cheap shot on himself? :o :o :o

 

[markvid]

Try this link:

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/sports/football/16060347.htm

 

[Trey Beamon]

RIP...loved those late 80s-early 90s Eagles.

 

[lantaur]

He was one of those guys who you loved when he was on your team and hated when he wasn't. RIP No. 20.

 

[Columbo]

terrible.

R.I.P.

if the suicide angle is true, how ironic that "muddy" waters would lay the ultimate cheap shot on himself? :o :o :o

It wasn't "muddy"

It was "dirty"

 

[Columbo]

Damn... who did he cheap shot and cause a pretty big furor about 20 years ago?

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Luis Zendejas

 

[Columbo]

Nice, LJB.

 

[Eagles1 in London]

Luis Zendejas

it wasn't waters....you're thinking of jessie small in the bounty bowl game on thanksgiving 89....

i think waters once made a statement saying he wanted to break emmitt smith's legs which caused some controversy

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

I was going to say, Ken Rose was with the Jets in 1989 and wasn't that sort of player.

I have tape of that Thanksgiving 1989 game (I was there with my brother, too), and I remember Waters knocking the **** out of Zendejas. Maybe I'm thinking of Small.

 

[Eagles1 in London]

don't know why ken rose popped in my mind first...anyway, i could be wrong about small....guess all of those guys back then could have been guilty of it...

also, correct me if i'm wrong, but didn't brit hager nail aikman after a ref called a play dead in that same game?

 

[Ralph Waldo Henderson]

In the interest of accuracy and not speaking ill of the recently-deceased ... Watters ended the career of Redskins kicker Jess Atkinson on what was considered a cheap shot. But he was a hard-nosed player you hated to play against and wanted on your team. RIP.

 

[shockey]

terrible.

R.I.P.

if the suicide angle is true, how ironic that "muddy" waters would lay the ultimate cheap shot on himself? :o :o :o

It wasn't "muddy"

It was "dirty"

thanks. i stand corrected.

 

[lantaur]

Waters was just generally regarded as a guy who might take a late or "cheap" shot. He was a fine safety. Again, he was like the M.L. Carr of football - love him on your team; hated him if he wasn't. That's (at least) three dead from the great Eagles defenses of the Buddy Ryan era - Jerome Brown, Reggie White and now Waters.

 

[playthrough]

Eerie. He and Jerome Brown died in locations about an hour apart in Tampa and Brooksville, Fla. One a suicide and the other a very senseless death.

 

[silvershadow1981]

out of everybody on that "Gang Green" defense of my youth, Andre Waters was my favorite because he was a headhunter who simply didn't give a damn. He must've really been going through something to take his own life. I pray no one of us has that kind of trouble in our lives. RIP, Andre.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Waters was just generally regarded as a guy who might take a late or "cheap" shot.

That sums it up pretty well.

Kids from Rickey Jackson to Andre Waters were taught to hit people and hit them hard in Belle Glade, Fla. Even back at Pahokee, Waters' job was to put a lick on the other team's best player.