Video Games: An All Star Addiction

August 6th, 2010 | Add a Comment

Quinn Pitcock, now a Seattle Seahawks football player, used to be an Ohio State All-American defensive tackler. He was a well known player and loved by his teammates. When he was playing for Ohio State, he quit after just one season. He didn’t disclose any information of why he quit in 2008. He recently told Tacoma-News Tribune that he ended his career as a professional football player to play video games.

Addiction comes in all different shapes, sizes, and aspects. Whether it is the typical alcoholic who cannot seem to put the bottle down or the video game addict who can’t seem to put the controller down, addiction destroys lives. For Pitcock, his way of dealing with life was by playing video games. He had it all going for him, but the obsession of the mind took over and brought him to a bottom. Pitcock admitted that the main reason to quitting the sport was because of depression. Not being able to get out of his funk, he got sucked into the TV screen and used video games as a way of escaping from his jam packed life.

Pitcock is coming back into the game, but not trying to draw much attention. “I left quietly and I’d like to come in quietly and just show what I can accomplish with the team,” he said. It is very rare that a football star does not want to be hyped up, Pitcock has obviously had some time to himself and is approaching his career in a new way.

Quinn Pitcock’s life was very big at one point and then became very small, all because of an addiction he acquired. The key factor in Quinn’s reappearance is that he is learning how to recover from an addiction. He is also spreading the message by planning on opening up a charity for children who struggle with the same addiction.