It seems every couple of weeks more things come out about Aaron Hernandez.
He will never truly get to rest in peace.
The Boston Globe speaks on what are in some of the calls.
The Bristol County sheriff’s office this week released more than 900 phone calls that the late New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez made from behind bars, offering deeper and more nuanced insight into his state of mind in the immediate aftermath of his arrest on murder charges.
In a call in August 2013, Hernandez told his former Patriots teammate Brandon Spikes, “Check this out: I get to pick what team I want to be on once I get out.’’
In the calls, he also talks about financial arrangements, reacts to suggestions that he had a gay relationship in high school, and expresses resentment toward the Patriots.
The new batch of phone calls was released in the wake of a Globe Spotlight series and podcast on Hernandez’s life and death. Those stories included an examination of his calls while at the Suffolk County Jail in Boston, which were made when he had already been awaiting trial for more than a year and grown accustomed to life in jail.
“I’m still going to be young when I get out of jail, so you know I’m going to try to play ball again,’’ Hernandez told his friend Mike Pouncey, a Los Angeles Chargers center who played with him at the University of Florida.
He complained that Patriots coach Bill Belichick turned his back on him and that Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson had exploited him for publicity.
In one call, Hernandez’s friend Brandon Beam told him that people in their hometown of Bristol, Conn., were describing him as gay, based in part on the incident with SanSoucie.
“The streets know,’’ Beam told Hernandez.
“The street don’t know nothing,’’ Hernandez replied. “They are making [expletive] up.’’
“Bill Belichick is the number one person who teaches his team, don’t listen to the media because most of the time they make up stories and they’re rarely true,’’ Hernandez told Spikes. “I wish he practiced what he preached, especially coming to me, throwing me in the dust with the wind.’’
You can flip the pages for some of Hernandez’s letters.