Todd Marinovich found naked with meth

[Belldozer1]

Dude looks rough
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...naked-marijuana-meth-stranger-s-backyard.html

 

[clob94]

Death? B!tch he looks like Wade Wilson from Deadpool.

 

[Son of Wasatch]

I met him back in the 90's just after he got cut by the Raiders. Dude was partying hard back then, I can't fathom how much partying he has done since then.

 

[UTGrad87]

Edwin Simmons says hello! That's going back 30 years though.

 

[BlueBallz]

 

[4MNChampsHorn]

That's just sad.

 

[Son of Wasatch]

That dude is about 3 or 4 years younger than me. And he looks about 15 years older than me.

Damn he has partied hard. It's funny, I don't drink, smoke and to this day I look about 15 years younger than I really am. He obviously has partied like a Rock Star and he looks about 20 years older than he is.

 

[clob94]

The part that gets me is the fact that the dude never got to have a hamburger until he was like 24. His old man was like a Russian weight lifter or something like that (my memory is foggy). And his old man kept him on the strictest of diets and a stringent training routine. He never got to have any fun. Then all the sudden when he gains an ounce of independence, he goes batsh!t crazy.
I'm not saying that you should hand your kid a bottle of whiskey when he turns 12 and let him go to town, but you can't deny a kid some fun every now and then.

 

[Son of Wasatch]

The part that gets me is the fact that the dude never got to have a hamburger until he was like 24. His old man was like a Russian weight lifter or something like that (my memory is foggy). And his old man kept him on the strictest of diets and a stringent training routine. He never got to have any fun. Then all the sudden when he gains an ounce of independence, he goes batsh!t crazy.
I'm not saying that you should hand your kid a bottle of whiskey when he turns 12 and let him go to town, but you can't deny a kid some fun every now and then.

That was actually Bullshit, I asked him about that and he said it was his dad making that stuff up for the SI article. He was doing coke in high school. His dad raising him to be a QB from childhood was real but he was eating all kinds of shit and smoking all kinds of shit from a very early age. His mom was a big influence as she was taking him and his sister to symphonies and museums but his dad was a huge asshole and he basically rebelled against everything his dad was trying to do for him.

 

[clob94]

That was actually Bullshit, I asked him about that and he said it was his dad making that stuff up for the SI article. He was doing coke in high school. His dad raising him to be a QB from childhood was real but he was eating all kinds of shit and smoking all kinds of shit from a very early age. His mom was a big influence as she was taking him and his sister to symphonies and museums but his dad was a huge asshole and he basically rebelled against everything his dad was trying to do for him.

Are you serious?

Holy sh!t dude. His dad made all that sh!t up? I remember reading that article-- twice I think. It seemed so robotic, but also genuine. That's crazy.

Btw, when did you talk to him about this?

 

[outhereincali]

Are you serious?

Holy sh!t dude. His dad made all that sh!t up? I remember reading that article-- twice I think. It seemed so robotic, but also genuine. That's crazy.

Btw, when did you talk to him about this?

Well yes and no. According to the 30 for 30 documentary he said he never got to eat the kind of things other kids eat. Before his senior year in high school he tried marijuana for the first time and the rest is history. But what I want to say here is that I can't tell you the number of times I've met people who were raised like he was, or raised in a strict religious environment, who started living like TM. At the end of the documentary he said he realized that his father was coming from a place of love he just didn't realize it at the time.

Epilogue

And his father made the same mistake in his second marriage he married his second wife because she was an athlete and he thought that he would produce a world class athlete with her. With that one he tried to turn him into a lb. Once again he failed. His father now lives in a trailer home twice divorced and alone.

 

[NDAFArly]

His father told some BS stories.

In the famous article he says Todd was doing push-ups as an infant & running four miles in 32 minutes on sand by the age of 4.

Just like Cam Newton telling reporters his son was walking at one month. Lol.

 

[Son of Wasatch]

Are you serious?

Holy sh!t dude. His dad made all that sh!t up? I remember reading that article-- twice I think. It seemed so robotic, but also genuine. That's crazy.

Btw, when did you talk to him about this?

Back in 1995. I worked with a guy that was one of his high school teammates. I was living in Provo Ut at the time when Todd came up to visit him. Todd showed up to pick him up in a limo he was so stoned I thought he would need to go to the hospital. I later ran into my friend and Todd at of all places Walmart, he was a bit more sober at the time and that is when he told me all about his childhood.

At the time, he wasn't a big fan of his dad, didn't have anything good to say about him. He told me that his dad was all about eating an athletes diet but outside the house he ate the same stuff as all his friends. His dad knew about it but in the article acted like it didn't happen. He told me he had been smoking weed since he was about 12. He was doing coke in high school, and lord knows what in college. At the time he was convinced he was set for life, and didn't need anything but drugs sex and surfing.