Looking back, Hernandez's comments after contract extension chilling

Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado had been dead for six weeks. Imagine Hernandez with a pen in hand and a contract in front of him, ready to sign for all the

Michael Rosenberg | May 15, 2014

Looking back, Hernandez's comments after contract extension chilling /

Aaron Hernandez signed a $40M extension just weeks after an alleged double murder in Massachusetts :: Josh Reynolds/AP

Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado had been dead for six weeks. Imagine Hernandez with a pen in hand and a contract in front of him, ready to sign for all the money in the world, telling himself that pen was really an eraser.

Published May 15, 2014

MICHAEL ROSENBERG

Michael Rosenberg is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, covering any and all sports. He writes columns, profiles and investigative stories and has covered almost every major sporting event. He joined SI in 2012 after working at the Detroit Free Press for 13 years, eight of them as a columnist. Rosenberg is the author of "War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler and America in a Time of Unrest." Several of his stories also have been published in collections of the year's best sportswriting. He is married with three children.