Matt Lepsis (former Bronco) and DMB

[ukrocks97]

Okay so in the Denver Post today there's a long story about Matt Lepsis (Whom I never knew as a player). The article is about how he had addictions and how he's turning his life around. In the middle of the article it references "the difficult is coming" and DMB.

I can't give you the link because you'd have to subscribe to the DP so I'll give you an excerpt:

Early in the 2007 season, Lepsis was in his yard playing with his son Hayden then 5, and daughter Jordan then 2. "I was on top of the world," he recalled, "I felt like this (drug use) was the answer to alot of my problems. I was having a great time and starting to open up to people."

His cell phone rang. He discovered nobody was calling him, but his phone was playing a Dave Matthews song, "#41". "It was the part of the song that said, 'the difficulty is coming.'" Lepsis said. He had the song in his extensive collection on his phone, but he would have had to get past a keyguard to play it. It struck him as wierd, nothing more.

"Then a couple of days later, we're getting ready to play a game, and I'm in my locker and listening to music," he said. The went to have his ankles taped and came back and heard music coming from his earphones, which surprised him because he believed he had turned his player off. He said he put on the earphones and hear: "The difficulty is coming." He said he was high at the time.

The next week, Lepsis and his wife were on the way to attend a friend's 30th birthday party. His phone vibrated. It wasn't a call. It was music. The same song, the same line. "The difficulty is coming."

Not only is it playing the music," he said, "but the cover of my phone is the album 'Crash' So it says 'Crash' on the screen and I'm freaked out. Someone's trying to tell me I'm going to die in a crash."

At the birthday party, he told the small group of his concerns. The birthday girl told him to stop worrying, that it was "silly". He said she told him: "God's in control of everything. If it's your day to die in a plane crash, you're going to die in a plane crash. If not, you're going to die some other way. Stop worrying about it."

Lepsis said, "It was the first time I started to even put God into the equation."

Any way that's just a portion of the whole article. He has since stopped using, retired following the 2007 season, moved to the Dallas area, and enrolled in a Theological Seminary.

I just thought the article was worth mentioning.

-T

[Prime Minister]

Cool.

[Resatka]

That's kind of fucked up?

[ukrocks97]

Originally Posted by Resatka

That's kind of fucked up?

Maybe but I think of the whole thing as "#41 (and by default DMB) to the rescue". It's cool that music has that kind of power.

-T

[Resatka]

""Not only is it playing the music," he said, "but the cover of my phone is the album 'Crash' So it says 'Crash' on the screen and I'm freaked out. Someone's trying to tell me I'm going to die in a crash.""

That part is kind of weird.

[HudmeisterDMB]

Lame

[swilson160]

[Insert whatever drug he was on] is a hell of a drug.

[woodsrow]

Originally Posted by HudmeisterDMB

Lame

you know whats not lame?

broncos are 4-0 and are going to win the AFC west

[berman1125]

what in the helllll

[joshizzle3]

fucking 5-0 and it feels fucking good
FUUUUUCK YEAH

[Auzz76]

Originally Posted by woodsrow

you know whats not lame?

broncos are 4-0 and are going to win the AFC west

weak sauce

[joshizzle3]

Originally Posted by Auzz76

weak sauce

the chargers were thought of as a major force in not only the AFC, but the NFL.

[Auzz76]

Originally Posted by joshizzle3

the chargers were thought of as a major force in not only the AFC, but the NFL.

I know man im just givin him a hard time. Orton is my boy from Purdue

Colts ftw!

[Auzz76]

and im infinitely happy with the Broncos for beating those bastards from New England today

[joshizzle3]

Originally Posted by Auzz76

I know man im just givin him a hard time. Orton is my boy from Purdue

Colts ftw!

okay good good
everyone was giving the broncos shit before the season started, and i told them to just watch... and now what do you know!
That Indy/Den game late in the year could be big for tiebreaks.

and purdue. my dad was the mascot for purdue back in the 60s. he loves talking about that

[ukrocks97]

Kinda got off track here. Anyway the real point is a DMB song helped someone out.

-T

[paulg83]

I call bullshit. This guy is making things up.

[Resatka]

OP we're not trashing you, just the story. I respect the post, but that guy in the story is either A) one fucked up human being or B) a pathological lair.

[Jan-Willem]

Crater = God?

[ukrocks97]

I'm not making this up.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/sports/2009/10/12/ex-bronco-matt-lepsis-in-the-seminary-directors-cut-of-sunday-story-with-deleted-material-restored-and-a-sidebar-that-didnt-run/

I contacted the author of the article. This is a link to the full story prior editing.

-T