As Ursula Ward approached the court to speak words never to be forgotten, Aaron Hernandez sat there Wednesday, lips pursed, eyes dead, heart dead, soul dead. At that moment, I found myself yelling at the television screen, "Stand up for that poor woman, Hernandez, you sorry excuse for a human being!"
Once destined for Canton, the Hall of Fame and football immortality, Hernandez is headed to Walpole now to face his mortality behind prison walls at MCI-Cedar Junction. Convicted of first-degree murder in the execution-style death of Ward's son Odin Lloyd, Hernandez will sit there, a scant 3.