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Mourners gather for Junior Seau's California funeral

"I wanted to punch this podium," Miles McPherson told the capacity gathering at Calvary Chapel of Oceanside. "We shouldn't be in this room today. We love him."

Ninety minutes later when he concluded the service, McPherson delivered a message of hope before Seau's black casket, covered with aqua and white flowers, was carried to a black hearse by six family members.

"Junior is in a place better than we've ever been," he said. "He is good. The pain is over."

Seau died on May 2 at his beachfront home in this city north of San Diego. The San Diego County medical examiner ruled it suicide by gunshot to the chest. He was 43.

McPherson told the mourners not to ask God why Seau died.

"It's way above our pay grade," he said. "We have to trust Him. It's just something we don't understand, and you know what? Frankly, a lot of what we don't understand is not our business."

Two other speakers were American Samoa's representative to the U.S. Congress, Eni Faleomavaega, and Seau's friend C.S. Keys, a weather anchor for a San Diego TV station. Faleomavaega said Seau, both as a football player and a philanthropist, manifested the Samoan "way of the warrior."

"There's no such thing as going halfway," said Faleomavaega. "You go all the way." Plucking at a ukele, the Samoan dignitary also said Seau personified l-o-v-e.

Keys recalled never having "a cross word with Junior" in their 12-year friendship. He quoted one of Seau's favorite sayings: "Work for today, plan for tomorrow, pray for the rest."

The funeral service brought lighter moments to the estimated 1,100 in attendance.

Keys recalled that when Seau enjoyed a song, he played or sang it so often that Keys begged him to stop. One of Seau's favorite songs was "Follow Me," released in 2001 by the Detroit-based singer Unkle Kracker.

With Keys as his passenger, Seau clicked on "Follow Me" several times, both to and from an event. Hooked, Keyes bought the same CD the next day, and told Seau: "You owe me eleven dollars and sixty-two cents."

A day after learning of Seau's death, a shocked Keys drove on San Diego's Interstate 5. "Follow Me" began to play from his i-Pod playlist, without Keys' planning it, he said.

When Seau and Keys recently debated the prospect of a boxing match between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, the former football player told Keys that Mayweather is a "smart man." Keys said, "How you figure," and Seau told him: "It takes a smart man to know when he's going to get his butt kicked."

A few speakers singled out for praise Seau's father and mother, Tiaina and Luisa Seau, who sat in a front pew.

Keys referred to the cheers given Tiaina, by Seau's friends and family at the viewing service Friday.

"You deserved every minute of the standing ovation that you got," he said.

Keys told Seau's mother, "I just want you to know one thing: Good job, and not just for Junior."

Junior was often told by his mother, "You go out, make happy," said Faleomavaega. "Shakespeare, not even with all of his literary greatness, could match Mama Luisa's simple but beautfifully scripted words that meant so much to Junior."

If Seau's life didn't always go as planned, much good came from several detours, Keys implied, while recalling with a smile that Seau's father told Keys that he wanted his son to play basketball, not football; to attend UCLA, not USC; to begin his NFL career with the San Francisco 49ers, not the San Diego Chargers. Seau was a 12-time.

Pro Bowler in the NFL as part of a 20-year playing career that began with the Chargers and coming after he earned All-America honors at USC.

Several speakers referred to Seau's smile, his charitable works, his penchant for calling friends "Buddy."

Talking of human frailty and redemption through belief in Christ, McPherson, a former defensive back in the NFL, mentioned bad times of his own, such as when he snorted cocaine while on a team flight with the San Diego Chargers in 1984. A Chargers teammate on the plane confronted McPherson, leading him to devote his life to Christianity.

"No one is perfect," the pastor said.

McPherson said he believes Seau devoted his life to Jesus Christ.

A collage of Seau photographs within the funeral service's program show Seau carrying a surfboard while walking on the beach; hugging children and his parents or posing with other family members; playing a ukulele; wearing a fedora-type hat and sticking out his tongue as he and friends give the surfer sign; pointing to the sky while wearing a Chargers uniform; wearing a powder-blue Chargers cap, a coat and tie and a lei at last year's ceremony that inducted him into the Chargers Hall of Fame. He also is seen wearing a green jersey No. 11 as a football player for Oceanside High School and No. 40 for the school's basketball team; and wearing No. 55, for USC, the Chargers, and the New England Patriots. The Miami Dolphins emblem is seen on another photo of Seau.

Among the survivors listed were four children, three by his formerwife, Gina Seau.

Text in the funeral program asks of Seau, what are you doing today?

Underneath is the following: "Looking down upon you, playing my ukelele, singing my song, enjoying my day. Don't cry for me, for I am with my King. Don't worry, we will be all right."

Seau was buried Friday afternoon in Oceanside. According to the program, he is survived Friday night at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium, a "Celebration of LIfe" ceremony was to include speakers former NFL players such as Dan Fouts, LaDainian Tomlinson and Rodney Harrison; and Bobby Ross, the coach who directed the Seau-led Chargers to their only Super Bowl appearance after the 1994 season.

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The pastor who officiated Junior Seau's funeral service on Friday acknowledged the pain caused by the former NFL star's death.