You can't be a sports fan and have a conscience, Part Three: Aaron Hernandez kills his fourth person, himself.

My friend had it right:  At least there will be no more.

(That is, unless there are others we don't know about yet that he already had before the one he got convicted of.)

Aaron Hernandez killed himself this morning, days after being acquitted of murders #2 and #3, which most sane people still believe he committed.

He was doing life for #1 anyway.  Now, since he didn't appeal that, he effectively legally washes himself of the conviction for #1, and a lot of the evidence used can't be used against his estate in civil matters against him.

It would be easy, and I've already seen a couple apologists on the Deadspin article try the "society failed him" angle and all that stuff.

The guy was Football God, and was on the Most Favored Team of All, the New England Patriots.

This motherfucker was such a holy terror at Florida that at least one NFL executive said (according to an ESPN article before the suicide):

"When I saw some of the shit he was able to get away with [at Florida], we weren't taking him.  He actually thought he was going to get away with murder.  He always thought he could beat the system, and when he got arrested I thought, 'Well, the system finally caught up with him.'"

This was in 2009.  So the NFL was more than prepared to paper over a lot of this stuff (and Belichick and the like did!). 

I'm going to make my response very simple:

The victims of Aaron Hernandez need to sue the University of Florida, the NFL, the New England Patriots, Urban Meyer (coach of Florida at the time), Bill Belichick, and the sponsors of the league, into oblivion.

Why?

Even if they can't get these parties directly for drafting the guy and actually putting football on trial (which is far overdue and what I would probably do if I were in the position), I would get them on the hook for enabling him.

On top of that, one has to wonder how much more we're going to accept out of Bill Belichick before someone just arrests the motherfucker.

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Two other ironic footnotes:

First, his lawyer and agent believe that someone else killed him:  Maybe his prison guards or some inmates, etc.

I don't buy it, nor does anyone I talked to on the subject.  That said, wouldn't that be about the first good indication that someone has finally started having enough of the enabling of the National Religion?

So, even if someone else did, GOOD!

Second, and perhaps most sickening:

Today was Donald Trump's day to have the Patriots visit.