Tyrann Mathieu Talks Childhood, Jimmy Graham, More in Men’s Journal Interview

August 3, 2016   ·   Timothy Rapp   ·   Jump to comments

Arizona Cardinals star defensive back Tyrann Mathieu opened up about his childhood and a number of other topics in a feature article in Men's Journal by Paul Solotaroff (warning: link contains NSFW language).
Mathieu, 24, revealed the tremendous amount of loss he's suffered throughout his life:
He walks me through the liturgy of his dead. The first cross is for his grandpa Lorenzo, who took in Mathieu when his mom abandoned him at birth. "The heroin got him, though he died of heart failure." Beside Grandpa is Uncle Donell, dead of AIDS, "from dirty needles." Beside Donell is Uncle Keith, "murdered in the street while holding his baby son in his hands." Next to him is Aunt Trina, who "died on Thanksgiving, when some jackass ran a red light." Next to Trina is Uncle Andre, murdered late at night over a projects squabble. The names run together in a blur of urban carnage, their blood tide turned to cruciform squibs of ink. "How?" I ask him. "How are you still here ...

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