[7] On February 18, 1999, he was allocated by the Dallas Cowboys to the Rhein Fire of NFL Europe.
[9] In February 2000, he was allocated by the Dallas Cowboys to the Rhein Fire of NFL Europe for a second time.
Brymer was married to his high school girlfriend Melissa; they had a son in 2003 and separated in 2005.
Melissa Brymer told SF Weekly in 2010 that Chris, during his football career, would have angry bouts and accuse her of infidelity.
[2] On July 19, 2010, Brymer left a San Francisco soup kitchen with another man, Henry Therkield, who had accosted him earlier.
[2] During the trial, Therkield testified that he heard Brymer threaten him but stated otherwise in an interview with SF Weekly.
[12] Former San Francisco district attorney Terence Hallinan commented about acquittals like this: "Juries lose confidence in [prosecutors], and a hate crime doesn’t have the same clarity that it should have.