A True Competitor Passes at 43

Junior Seau, a champion competitor who played for the San Diego Chargers, has died at 43 years old.  Police are calling it a suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  


Raider Nation has always had nothing but respect for Seau.  We might curse Chargers football, but Junior was one of those players you prayed someday would suit up in Silver & Black; he never did.


The things being said about Junior today just show that he was one of those special individuals who brought class and dignity to the game and life in general.  His parents migrated to southern california from the Polynesian island of Aunu'u, near American Samoa. Junior represented that Samoan culture of brotherly love at all times. He was a genuinely good soul who loved the game of football and the gift of friendship.


Prayers go out to the Seau family.  Rest well warrior!

The tribal tattoo designs were originally used by warrior clans and evidence shows that Polynesian tribes were the first ones who introduced the word tattoo to us, which
comes from the Samoan word tatau. So it is agreed upon that Polynesian warriors were the people who invented the tribal designs, especially the males had their chest and
thighs tattooed using dark ink. The second tribe who is believed to be amongst the first humans to display tribal body art was the Maori clan of New Zealand.