Chris Henry-related tweets by NY Jets' Jay Feely cause anger

Cincinnati Bengals Wide Receiver Chris Henry's death on Thursday of this week took the NFL and sports by surprise and brought out the best thoughts expressed about a man who was clearly on his way to a new and brighter life. From Bengals Head Coach Marvin Lewis, to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, the league communicated its collective sadness to the World.

But what New York Jets' Jay Feely wrote on Twitter about the late Chris Henry has a lot of people in a snit. Before we look at that, lets' read his tweets about Chris Henry.

I placed them below as they appear, latest one first. I highlight in bold the tweets that have caused so much controversy.

Very true RT @bengrix I get what you mean. Hard enough to live a good, clean life. Some past mistakes make it so much harder
3:41 PM Dec 17th from Twitterrific in reply to bengrix
My heart still aches for his Mom and sister and I regret I wasn't able to have an impact on him.
3:20 PM Dec 17th from Twitterrific
I reached out to him many times, including in jail, to no avail. His death was not a direct result of past problems but part of the pattern
3:18 PM Dec 17th from Twitterrific
My cousin died a couple of weeks ago at 27yrs old. He had history of drug and alcohol problems & was in and out of jail.
3:17 PM Dec 17th from Twitterrific
@kalifakamaria you said it much better than I did. I didn't mean to reference falling off truck in my metaphor.
2:18 PM Dec 17th from Twitterrific in reply to kalifakamaria
RT @kalifakamaria hope people learn from awful situation. Let his death not be in vain. cant change he died but can learn from his life
2:17 PM Dec 17th from Twitterrific in reply to kalifakamaria
I pray 4 them 2 RT @kalifakamaria fully understood what u said. And it's true. Actions can have terrible consequences. I pray 4 his fam &
2:15 PM Dec 17th from Twitterrific in reply to kalifakamaria
Maybe I did a poor job of expressing my sympathy while trying to look at the bigger picture of why this happened and how to avoid in future
1:24 PM Dec 17th from Twitterrific
RT @dibdob93 like you said man, we gotta try and learn from even the worst situations
1:20 PM Dec 17th from Twitterrific in reply to dibdob93
I just want people (teammates, etc.) to learn from this tragedy and not put themselves into bad situations. My heart breaks this happened
1:12 PM Dec 17th from Twitterrific
I have COMPLETE sympathy for the entire Henry family and all the Bengals players because I know they are heartbroken.
1:10 PM Dec 17th from Twitterrific
younger generation needs to learn the lesson that our choices have implications and those implications often entail negative consequences
1:08 PM Dec 17th from Twitterrific
Bengals owner Mike Brown on Chris Henry "man who worked hard to better himself." too often, bad choices catches up when u turn for good
1:07 PM Dec 17th from Twitterrific
Chris Henry seemed to have turned his life around. But, you can't live on the brink of destruction without inevitably falling off the ledge
12:43 PM Dec 17th from Twitterrific
You hope that these tragic circumstances will wake people to the reality that our actions have real consequences.
7:40 AM Dec 17th from Twitterrific
My sympathies go out to Chris Henry's family and the Bengals organization. Trust me his teammates are crestfallen.
7:37 AM Dec 17th from Twitterrific

Taken as a whole, Feely's tweets are at best insensitive and at worst totally mean.  If you didn't know how Chris Henry died and read Feely's tweets, you'd have thought he committed a crime.  He didn't.  Feely at no point mentions what happened, or bothers to separate Henry's past actions from his present success in life.

Look, Chris Henry fell off a pickup truck.  That was it.  Yes, he should not have ran to jump on the pickup truck's bed, but he did.  To put him down by skipping over his present and digging up his past is not a, well, Christian thing to do.

Jay Feely claims to be Christian.

The reaction to Feely's tweet on "falling off the ledge" caused the greatest anger, with Football News Now writing that Feely put his "foot in his mouth".  And here's a selection of tweets about Feely:

oscarmarroquin i just read a column by mike freeman calling out jay feely for comments made on twitter regarding chris henry and I agree
about 1 hour ago from web

hurwitzmm @OGOchoCinco WAMW jay feely has a twitter acct? What a complete douche! http://myloc.me/2ccmb

cmate20 Is it possible to have less class than jets kicker Jay Feely? What an idiot for tweet on Chris Henry's death!
1 day ago from web
Mortgage_Man_X @Adam_Schefter Is Jay Feely the biggest idiot kicker since Mike Vanderjagt?
1 day ago from web

And that's just some of the tweets.

On his Twitter page profile, Feely reports that he has "political aspirations." Well, if he wants to have a successful campaign, he'd better think before he tweets.