Marion Barber, played six seasons with the Dallas Cowboys, struggled with Mental Health and legal issues since retiring found dead at age 38
Sam heard and he was a Dallas cowboy in the mid 2000s which is kind of near and dear to my heart because i grew up watching Dallas cowboys football i was in my young teens in the
Mid 2000s and the moment i finished i got this honestly just horrific news there’s no work there’s no other way i could put it this is just truly horrific news and when i was reading up on it a little bit more well it just made it’s just really bad all of this is just horrible especially so a few days ago we unfortunately lost jeff
Glattny and luckily for me i’m not really in a position where i need to make a lot of videos like this but this is the second video like this that i had to make in two days now right now we got some really horrific news surrounding a dallas cowboys fan favorite and as i was doing my research on it there was a tweet that went out by dez bryant a year ago that really hits home so for those of you guys that don’t know about a year ago there’s this
Highlight tape that was dropped by marcus mosher of marion the barbarian barber if you don’t know who marion barber is he was a breakout back for the dallas cowboys in the mid 2000s and honestly you have to understand if you’re
a dallas cowboy fan in the mid-2000s you know there wasn’t a lot to cheer for there wasn’t a lot to get excited about but Mary and Barbara really embodied everything the dallas cowboys stood for And everything a fan stood for at the time i mean he was an underdog he was splitting carries with julius jones he wasn’t supposed to be that freaking good
Out of nowhere this man clawed his way all the way up and eventually made it to a pro bowl this is all despite him being a fourth round pick in the 2005 nfl draft he wasn’t supposed to be good and i guess he kind of flew under the radar but he had one of the most underrated careers in the entire nfl he
Was able to play football for seven years before finally hanging it up following the 2011 season the reason why this gets a little dark and to be
Because he’s down and out bad and we are just a stat and moments to most people which made me feel truly horrific because i didn’t realize what marion barber was going through and i was just reminiscing about some great moments he brought to us.
on the field for those of you guys that don’t know we got truly horrific news from the star telegram that former dallas cowboys running back marion barber was found dead in his apartment
By the frisco police now the currently the cause of his death is unknown and a frisco police spokesperson said that officers are currently out on a welfare concern but we are unable to provide any further information at this time
it continues to give you some stats about marion barber’s career how he was a pro bowler in 2007 after rushing for 975 yards and 10 touchdowns in a season that he didn’t start a game for the cowboys splitting time with julius jones
He finished his career with rushing yards and 53 rushing touchdowns played one season with the bears and then retired from the nfl before the start of the 2012 season and then the article ends in a way that really just shook me personally and it’s the fact that barbara’s life has been in a tailspin since his retirement and i’m gonna be honest i didn’t know this i i feel horrible i had no idea that this was going on
In 2014 marion barber was detained by mansfield police and was taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation barber was arrested in 2019 on two misdemeanor counts of criminal mischief over a 2018 incident where he was alleged to have damaged two cars
while he was running in frisco the two incidents occurred in 2018 in which a witness alleged that barber charged toward their vehicle causing large dents to the side of their cars i don’t really
Know what to say to this at this point it’s truly really sad whenever you were getting to a point where so much death is happening within the nfl especially within such a short span of time i mean dwayne haskins was almost two months ago he died at 24. jeff gladney was a few days ago he was 25 years old and i don’t want to say this is any better because marion barber is older he
Is 38 years old but the fact that this man was suffering so much following his career in the nfl which was a great career it wasn’t necessarily a hall of fame career but he definitely exceeded expectations just really makes me sad.
i feel like i don’t want to automatically assume because we’re still trying to figure out what happened but when you look at marion barber’s highlights during his heyday he was known for being a very bruising type of running back he
Was known for taking big hits and getting in there like for the most part he was compared to marshawn lynch before marshawn lynch he was very physical very aggressive that big power back type so a part of me is suspecting maybe
it’s the c word maybe there was cte involved i mean i’m going based off of what i’m reading from dez bryant and the little bit of research i did here i hope his family has peace it’s truly.
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