Erik Kramer was an NFL quarterback who in 1991 led the Detroit Lions to a 12-4 regular season record, their first playoff victory since 1962 and the NFC Championship game. He went on to set passing records with the Chicago Bears that stand to this day. Following his playing career, Erik become a TV sports broadcaster covering the Detroit Lions & Chicago Bears preseason games, NFL regular season games for Fox, as well as in-studio analysis.

Today he opens up about his career, the sudden death of his son Griffen from a heroin overdose, his own failed suicide attempt, the resultant conservatorship nightmare and the false allegation of domestic violence from the woman who coerced him into marrying her.

After a storied career playing American football, former NFL quarterback Erik Kramer’s 18-year-old overdoses on heroin and dies, his mother dies of cancer, as does his father. Soon after these devastating personal tragedies, and overcome with grief and debilitating depression, Erik meticulously planned his own suicide.

Although he ultimately survived - the bullet went through his chin, mouth and lodged in his brain - it left him with massive brain injuries. Depressed and mentally incapacitated, he then met a woman named Courtney Baird who coerced him to marry her. What follows is a cautionary tale as Erik is led through conservatorship hoax, marriage fraud, the corruption of family law, and arrested on (ultimately false allegations) charges of domestic violence that leave him facing felony assault.

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