Chip Myers
Mothman
out to his family and friends.
This is tragic. I don't know what to say.
Jim
Farblue1
>out to his family and friends
Oh my God. My prayers also go out to his family and friends as well as the
rest of the Vikings coaching staff. What a shame. I think he would have given
us a great year.
Please, not Ray Sherman as his replacement.
His death is so sad. Godspeed, Chip. You were too young to die.
Tammy
Craig Hamann
wrote:
>Chip Myers passed away of a heart attack. What a nightmare! My prayers go
>out to his family and friends.
>
>This is tragic. I don't know what to say.
>
>Jim
I also feel bad about this. Chip Myers was a nice guy and a superb
coach. Both Cris Carter and Randall Cunningham credited Myers with
having a lot to do with Cunningham becoming a different and better QB
last season. This is high praise.
When Billick left the Vikes, I felt that the O.C. position had
improved when Green promoted Myers. All I can say is that the Vikings
team was very fond of this coach and had a great deal of respect for
his abilities. He will be badly missed.
Craig
Ron Gibson
Feb. 23, 1999
Vikings assistant Myers dies at 53
SportsLine wire reports
MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota Vikings offensive coordinator Chip Myers has
died of a heart attack. He was 53.
Myers was promoted to offensive coordinator just a month ago after Brian
Billick left to coach the Baltimore Ravens.
He was a receiver for eight years with the Cincinnati Bengals, and made
the Pro Bowl one year.
Vikings spokesman Bob Hagan, who announced Myers' death, said he had no
further details.
Radio station WCCO reported Myers was stricken Monday night at his
Minneapolis home.
"I think Chip was just an outstanding guy," Jeff Diamond, senior vice
president of football operations, told the radio station. "He will be
greatly missed. It's very, very shocking to us."
Myers coached receivers for three years before taking over the
quarterbacks last season.
When he took the offensive coordinator job, coach Dennis Green said
Myers' knowledge of the team's system and ability to work with the
players made him a "great fit."
Chip Myers played eight seasons in the NFL.(AP)
Myers coached at New Orleans, the New York Jets, Indianapolis and Tampa
Bay before joining the Vikings.
Last season, Myers helped Randall Cunningham earn Pro Bowl and All-Pro
recognition after starting the season as Brad Johnson's backup.
The Vikings also led the league in both of Myers' specialties. They
converted 51 percent of the time on third down -- no one else topped 46
percent -- and they scored on 53 of 56 trips inside the opponents'
20-yard line.
"I've been ready to do this for 10 years," Myers said when he got the
job. "I've just never (promoted) myself to do it, and I would never do
that at all.
"All I want is to be somewhere where I can win."
Myers, whose given name was Phil, was a graduate of Northwestern
Oklahoma State.
Lance Manion
Vikings fans and the organization.
MileHiLance
Go Broncos!!!
Super Bowl XXXII and XXXIII Champs!!!
Mike Perkins
organization will be in my thoughts for for several days to come.
--
Mike
ALL THE WAY VIKINGS
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PJW
same time he was on the verge of becoming an OC. A goal he spent many
years trying to attain and then to have it suddenly end like this is
very sad. I was really excited about the possibilities he could have
done with the Vikings offense. What a true loss for the Meyers family
and the Vikings organization. My sincere condolences go out to them.
PJW
Something Wicked This Way Comes! #84
VIKINGS RULE!
DanAS1
about to coach one of the best offenses in league history. At 53, he was way
too young. I just attended a funeral last week for a 52 year old colleague,
and everybody just felt so sad that this person departed in the prime of his
life.
This should further bring this team together, if in fact there was any
distance between the players or coaches. He will be missed by the entire
Viking family.
VioletRex
>What a true loss for the Meyers family....
That's the real loss. Nothing in sports can compare to the loss of a loved
one.
Minniman
yauza
have done with this offense.
Henry
stone (my first). I heard about Coach Myers death on the way to the
hospital. While I was in severe pain, thinking about what his family,
friends and the entire Viking organization are going through kind of
put things in perspective for me....didn't lessen the pain any but
made me realize that I could be much worse off.
________
Regards,
Henry ---> hldev...@yahoo.com
AnnE Austin
>
> I spent the entire day today at the hospital suffering from a kidney
> stone (my first). I heard about Coach Myers death on the way to the
> hospital. While I was in severe pain, thinking about what his family,
> friends and the entire Viking organization are going through kind of
> put things in perspective for me....didn't lessen the pain any but
> made me realize that I could be much worse off.
Bummer, Henry. Sorry for YOUR pain! You OK now? Hope so.
You are so right about putting things in perspective when
finding out this kind of info about the death of Chip
Myers. I think most everyone does that to some extent.
This mornings Mpls Star Trib reported that he was a smoker
and ate very poorly. Even tho his lean stature looked as if
he was healthy, he most certainly was not. Be it a lesson
for all of us.
My heart goes out to his family, friends, and the entire
Vikings Staff.
And you get well FAST! AnnE in MN where it's
snowing this morning!
AnnE Austin
Henry
just anticipating the inevitable. While I'm not a smoker or drinker,
I confess to eating very poorly (about 22 lbs too heavy). Maybe, now
it's time to mend my ways.
At this point, I'm just wondering what more can happen to the Vikings
during the off-season? This situation will really test the resolve of
the team. I know that they'll get through it alright though.
_______
Regards,
Henry -----> hldev...@yahoo.com
Farblue1
> How very tragic. May God bless the Meyers family. Condolences to the
>Vikings fans and the organization.
>
>MileHiLance
That means a lot having support from a Broncos fan. We're all pretty shocked
here at the turn of events.
Here's to giving you a better SB next year?
;-)
Tammy
Farblue1
first).
Henry, are you okay now? I've seen my husband go through that. He was punching
and kicking the inside of my car as I sped him to the hospital. Women who have
had babies and kidney stones would prefer having a baby anytime. Anyway, hope
the stone passed and they gave you some good painkillers. Just look out for
signs of fever and/or chills if you haven't passed the stone. We don't need you
becoming septic.
>I heard about Coach Myers death on the >way to the hospital. While I was in
severe >pain, thinking about what his family, friends >and the entire Viking
organization are going through kind of put things in perspective for
me....didn't lessen the pain any but made me realize that I could be much worse
off.
Henry, what a big person you are. People like you give me faith in mankind.
You were in your own severe pain and yet you were thinking about Chip's family.
I don't worry about his loss to the Vikings. I worry about his loss to his
family. The Vikings will recover. Football will go on. The Vikes will probably
promote Mike Tice and the 1999 season will begin. However, everything is at an
end right now for the Myers family. I said a long prayer last night for him
and his family (I think God was ready to hang up on me after 20 minutes).
Tammy
Henry
>>I spent the entire day today at the hospital suffering from a kidney stone (my
>>first).
>
>Henry, are you okay now? I've seen my husband go through that. He was punching
>and kicking the inside of my car as I sped him to the hospital. Women who have
>had babies and kidney stones would prefer having a baby anytime. Anyway, hope
>the stone passed and they gave you some good painkillers. Just look out for
>signs of fever and/or chills if you haven't passed the stone. We don't need you
>becoming septic.
Thanks Tammy! I THINK I'm ok now. I'm not real sure but I believe
the stone passed about an hour ago. If so, it was truly
anti-climatic.... not that I'm complaining though :-). Funny you
should mention about having a baby because while I was waiting for the
doctors, x-rays, ct scan, etc., I kept thinking to myself, this has to
be worse than having a baby! Now my suspicions are confirmed. :-) I
tore my left ACL back in '94 and while that was the most intense pain
I've ever had to endure, this stone is a very, very close second.
>>I heard about Coach Myers death on the >way to the hospital. While I was in
>>severe pain, thinking about what his family, friends and the entire Viking
>>organization are going through kind of put things in perspective for
>>me....didn't lessen the pain any but made me realize that I could be much worse
>>off.
>Henry, what a big person you are. People like you give me faith in mankind.
>You were in your own severe pain and yet you were thinking about Chip's family.
> I don't worry about his loss to the Vikings. I worry about his loss to his
>family. The Vikings will recover. Football will go on. The Vikes will probably
>promote Mike Tice and the 1999 season will begin. However, everything is at an
>end right now for the Myers family. I said a long prayer last night for him
>and his family (I think God was ready to hang up on me after 20 minutes).
Actually Tammy, I was thinking about Chip's family in an attempt to
imagine their pain. I have not yet experienced the loss of a family
member so close other than my grandparents...it has to be a
devastating experience. I was hoping that thinking about their tragic
pain would somehow lessen mine because I knew that my situation would
eventually pass. His family's pain will last a whole lot longer.
Craig Hamann
>I spent the entire day today at the hospital suffering from a kidney
>stone (my first). I heard about Coach Myers death on the way to the
>hospital. While I was in severe pain, thinking about what his family,
>friends and the entire Viking organization are going through kind of
>put things in perspective for me....didn't lessen the pain any but
>made me realize that I could be much worse off.
>________
>Regards,
>
>Henry ---> hldev...@yahoo.com
Get well, my friend. I hope you're doing better.
You're right about things being put into perspective. Family
survivors go through unrelenting pain when a loved one dies. That
kind of pain often is harder to deal with and longer lasting than
physical pain.
Craig
AnnE Austin
>
> Thanks AnnE! Compared to yesterday, I'm a lot better. Right now, I'm
> just anticipating the inevitable. While I'm not a smoker or drinker,
> I confess to eating very poorly (about 22 lbs too heavy). Maybe, now
> it's time to mend my ways.
>
> At this point, I'm just wondering what more can happen to the Vikings
> during the off-season? This situation will really test the resolve of
> the team. I know that they'll get through it alright though.
hey, Henry....loved the bit about being twenty-TWO #'s etc.
etc....how you figure in that 2#'s??? LOL
It's ALWAYS time to mend our ways. You go first!
Don't even think about anything more to happen. Except I'm
a firm believer that things happen in 3's.
#1. Brad Johnson leaving.
#2. Death of Chip
#3 ? (could be that you do indeed change
your ways ;) )
What did they do to that stone? Crush it?
AnnE in MN
Farblue1
From: hldev...@yahoo.com (Henry)
>Thanks Tammy! I THINK I'm ok now. I'm not real sure but I believe the stone
passed about an hour ago. If so, it was truly
anti-climatic.... not that I'm complaining though :-). Funny you should
mention about having a baby because while I was waiting for the
doctors, x-rays, ct scan, etc., I kept thinking to myself, this has to be worse
than having a baby! Now my suspicions are confirmed. :-)
LOL. Glad you're okay, Henry. I hope they gave you a better diet to follow?
;-)
> I tore my left ACL back in '94 and while that was the most intense pain I've
ever had to endure, this stone is a very, very close second.
Been through the hand surgery bit as most of you know. It's no walk in the
park. They bandage the hell out of your hand, remove it in six days and tell
you to make a fist. Yeah, right! The brain was willing but the hand wouldn't
cooperate.
>Actually Tammy, I was thinking about Chip's family in an attempt to imagine
their pain. I have not yet experienced the loss of a family
member so close other than my grandparents... it has to be a devastating
experience.
I don't ever want to know, but I know it's a reality. I never knew 2 of my
grandparents and my grandmother died when I was seven in 1974. My grandfather
died in 1995 but he was so far gone from Alzheimer's, it was actually a bit of
a blessing. My parents are thankfully young at 54 and 56. I can't imagine
life without them, even though we live 540 miles apart.
>His family's pain will last a whole lot longer.
I feel so bad for them. Sometimes I wish I hadn't gone into medicine. I get
so attached to some patients and then they die. It leaves me feeling pretty
empty. With no family here in CT other than my husband, I have several
patients who have adopted me as their granddaughter.
Again, glad you're feeling better. I won't even go into the "stent" story my
husband went through. I can already see the males around here wincing.
Tammy
Henry
<card...@winternet.com> wrote:
>Don't even think about anything more to happen. Except I'm
>a firm believer that things happen in 3's.
> #1. Brad Johnson leaving.
> #2. Death of Chip
> #3 ? (could be that you do indeed change
>your ways ;) )
I consider "The Loss" as #3 (or #1 if going in chronological order).
>What did they do to that stone? Crush it?
>
> AnnE in MN
Actually, they didn't give me anything (not even for the pain). For
some reason, after the CT Scan, I felt much better. When the doctor
determined that it was a stone that was giving me problems, he
suggested that I try to "flush" it out with lots of fluids. Well, I
got home and must have downed 3 gallons of water. They provided me
with one of the infamous strainers with which I was supposed to catch
the stone for their examination. I figured that I would KNOW when the
stone was about say "goodbye" so I didn't use the strainer on a
regular basis. Lo & behold, the stone left and I wouldn't have even
noticed it had I not heard it "plop".
Anyway, that's enough of that talk now! :-) Today, I'm feeling so
good that it's hard to believe the condition I was in just 2 days ago.
Thanks for everyone's concern!!! I'm back to my old self....just
drinking a lot more water now though!
_________
Regards,
Henry -----> hldev...@yahoo.com
Henry
>Again, glad you're feeling better. I won't even go into the "stent" story my
>husband went through. I can already see the males around here wincing.
>
>
>Tammy
Yikes! Even typing "stent" makes my flesh crawl. I've been counting
my blessing and thanking my lucky stars I didn't have to undergo any
type of surgical procedure! When the doctor was discussing the
possibilities, I was praying that if something needed to be done, it
would be Lithotripsy (sp).
Tammy, it sounds like your hubby is one tough guy! :-)
AnnE Austin
>
> On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:05:55 -0600, AnnE Austin
> <card...@winternet.com> wrote:
>
> >Don't even think about anything more to happen. Except I'm
> >a firm believer that things happen in 3's.
> > #1. Brad Johnson leaving.
> > #2. Death of Chip
> > #3 ? (could be that you do indeed change
> >your ways ;) )
>
> I consider "The Loss" as #3 (or #1 if going in chronological order).
Ah......good. Let's consider that to be #1 so that means
that all 3 have been fulfilled!
[stuff deleted re: your stone! <G>...I don't want to think
about it anymore! Plop? LOL)]
Glad to hear you are better tho. Not fun to have that
amount of pain!
AnnE in Mtka
Farblue1
lot more water now though!
That's good to hear, Henry. We hate when any one of our posters has medical
problems. When I had my hand surgery last March, everyone was so incredibly
supportive. This is a wonderful newsgroup. I think sometimes we drive other
fans crazy because of our camraderie in here. I don't think many, if any at
all, other newsgroups have the relationships like we have here.
Tammy
Farblue1
>Tammy, it sounds like your hubby is one tough guy! :-)
>
It was quite an experience. Like I said, I think the stent story would make
too many people cringe. It's not about what happened when the stent was put in
(he was given spinal anesthesia for that). It's what happened afterward.
Gotta love military medicine. They originally discharged my husband from the
Navy Hospital ER in Charleston with "viral gastroenteritis", in other words - a
stomach ache/infection. They gave him Maalox and sent him home. About 1/3 of
the way home, he went wild with the pain so I raced back to the hospital. They
made him wait in the waiting room for another 3 hours in excrucating pain.
Being in the medical field and having seen my uncle go through it, I had
figured out what the problem was. Finally, they let me talk to the doctor (he
looked way too young to be an M.D. and I think actually he was more like a
nurse practitioner). I suggeted an IVP (intravenous pyelogram where they
inject dye and look at your kidneys, ureters and bladder). The doc took my
suggestion and sure enough, the stone was lodged at the UPJ (ureteropelvic
junction, which is right where the ureters meet the bladder). They sent him
home for the weekend on Tylox. He threw up all weekend long and we both
thought it was due to the Tylox since that particular narcotic can cause nausea
and vomiting. By the time I took him back to the hospital Monday morning, he
was septic (basically, his urine was poisoning his blood).
They admitted him right away since his fever was about 103. He was started on
massive doses of antibiotics. When the doc went to remove the stone, he found
my husband's ureter was like "tissue paper". That's why they had to place the
stent. What a nightmare!
Tammy
Anonymous
You're right about this newsgroup, Tammy. I've spent a little time in
other newsgroups and all I ever found was a lot of bickering, name
calling & trolling. Now there's a certain amount of "bickering" in
the Vikings ng but it's mostly of the "agree to disagree" variety.
Makes me glad to be a Vikes fan!
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