damn...that's a shame, he was one of the good guys.

I cant think of the term off the top of my head (from psychology) that goes with this well. The action that occurs during placement of blame (by you) on others or your self typically goes like this: When it is you, external forces caused it; when it is another person, internal forces (from them) caused it. An example being when you are late often to work, it was the traffics fault, or the weathers fault, not that you didnt get up earlier and get out of the house sooner. If somebody else at your place of work is late often, it is because they are lazy, or slobs, and just cant get motivated enough to come to work on time...
The point is we pass judgement on these people without knowing dick about their lives... for all we know Joe Phillips could have had a mental breakdown and may not even literally be the same person. Perhaps he suffered trauma to his brain after years of football and causes him to split personalities and have fugue episodes, or other such occurences, that we, some what healthy minded individuals cannot and most likely will not experience.

Yeah, I remember hearing that in psychology, and it's definitely true. When bad things happen to us, we look for reasons why it's not our own fault, but when they happen to others we assume they are at fault, by default.

pro--jek-shun

You seem to have some psychology education. Can you help me figure out why I'm horizontally challenged?

Did you read this article?


Why would good players like Joe Phillips go mental like this, when seemingly worthless players like Eddie Drummond are sane?

Drugs ??? Just a guess.

damn, I've never heard this before about Joe Phillips. One of my favorite Chiefs, sad and surprising.

Or perhaps realizing that something that had been a significant part of your life since you were a child is suddenly and irretrievably gone.

Bob Dole would imagine it's a tremendous feeling of loss, no matter how well-prepared you might be. Everyone deals with loss in their own way--some of us badly.

You're underheight for your weight. :p

jumped on the bandwagon

wait a minute
 

As Joe Phillips' sister, I would like to make a few statements.

Cindy Ream-Phillips saw my brother less than a month ago in a Florida court. Real Sports was well-aware of this fact, filming this court date as well as one in the fall. In fact, the litigation has been ongoing between Joe and Cindy, and they have, either in-person or through representation, been in the same room numerous times over the past six years: three times since September alone.

Cindy left their marriage a wealthy woman; she took at least 1/2 the marital assets. She also defied a court order and took sole control of the children's substantial trust accounts.

During the divorce and for at least a year after, Joe submitted willingly to random testing. He never tested positive for anything.

Joe is living on disability from the NFL. He has been consistently re-evaulated and the result is the same: The damage to his body is among the worst the physicians have seen. He is in constant pain.

While Joe is behind in child support, that only occurred when he ceased to be updated as to the children's trust accounts.

In addition, child support should have been adjusted long ago due to Joe's disability, Cindy's income, and Ashley's majority. However, Cindy continues to insist on the original amount, which insures that Joe will be forever behind in payments.

Cindy's statements of abuse are unsubstantiated and they were not deemed valid in the original divorce decree.

Joe did not abandon his children; he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in court fees and visitation costs. He did not abandon Cindy;
If a person is unhappy in a marriage, they have the right to leave.

It is not hard to imagine how the pain, the lies, and most of all the lack of contact with a person's children might drive him to despair. My brother is not perfect, but he is not what Cindy alleges.

There is much more to this, but I assume this is enough.

thanks for the update/correction, and well wishes to Joe and the Phillips family.

As a recovering journalist I have to say that I hate much of what goes on in that profession.

You should tell this to the local KC media or newspaper. Better yet have Joe come forward and speak for himself.

There are a lot of KC Chief fans that still love and cherish the memories of what Joe did on the football field.