Tillman's brother: 'Pat isn't with God. He's fucking dead'

The hagiography of NFL/war veteran Pat Tillman hit a snag during his funeral services Monday when his brother Rich took the microphone:

Tillman's youngest brother, Rich, wore a rumpled white T-shirt, no jacket, no tie, no collar, and immediately swore into the microphone. He hadn't written anything, he said, and with the starkest honesty, he asked mourners to hold their spiritual bromides.

"Pat isn't with God,'' he said. "He's fucking dead. He wasn't religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he's fucking dead.''

The Arizona Republic coverage of the event, attended by 3,000 people and broadcast live, indicates how these comments were received:

Tillman's younger brother, Rich, created a sensation by toasting his older brother with a pint of Guinness stout, Tillman's favorite beer, and spicing up his brief comments with several obscenities of the kind Tillman himself was known to let fly with abandon.

The locker-room language prompted some live television broadcasts to cut away from the memorial.

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The Television Broadcasts didn't like it when Tillmans Brother Rich gave them a little bit of truth for a change instead of their constant barrage of garbage.