Super Bowl-winning quarterback Mark Rypien struggled with depression and even tried to take his own life on a couple of occasions. In the wake of WSU QB Tyler Hilinski's death, Rypien is opening up about his issues to generate a conversation about mental health.
Early on, there were the “wait-a-minute” moments.
Like the time Mark Rypien and his wife, Danielle, were in the car, daughters in the back seat, pulling into a McDonald’s drive-thru. She wasn’t a McDonald’s eater. Didn’t speak the McLanguage. And the menu board was too far ahead for her to read it anyway, not that she’d know a Big Mac from a Quarter Pounder.