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Because the Lions Suck....anyway I went to his induction at the Hall of Fame...they said he would run with a 300lbs lineman on his back and his legs wherestrong enough to do it with two
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I said once and I'll say it again, I don't understand how you can take anyone who roots for the Cowboys and Bulls seriously as a sports fan.
What the hell is that suppose to mean??
anyways i agree with shoes for once, there are players that have been in worse spots then barry and didnt "retire" on there team because they wasntwinning.
Nevertheless, William Sanders remembers the call he got from his son after that remarkable '97 season, during which the Lions went 9-7 and were a wild-card team. "He wanted to quit," William says. "He was disenchanted with the offense. I told him no, give it a year." Last season Barry's frustration grew. His father said he has never seen Barry as low as he was on Oct. 4, after the Lions blew a 27-10 second-half lead to the Bears in Chicago and lost 31-27. "A lot of times," Barry told SI a week after the Chicago debacle that left Detroit 1-4, "after a bad loss like that, I go home and I'm ready to quit. I just can't stand it."
While his father blasted the organization and suggested his son might retire ("He's sick of the Lions," William said in April, "and he's sick of losing"), Barry said nothing. The silence worried the team. Schmidt called Ware in an attempt to reach Sanders, but Ware said, "Barry needs his space." Running backs coach Frank Falks was so concerned that he went to Barry's Rochester Hills, Mich., home and sat on his front porch waiting for him to return. Hours passed. Sanders never came home, so Falks finally left.
^ u guys remember this when he broke 2,000 yards on the last game of the 97 season vs the Jets.
Originally Posted by koolbarbone
Originally Posted by nycknicks105
If you really think about it, him leaving football never to come back is selfish all together.Originally Posted by S4L3
He's a quitter....
Barry didn't owe anything to anybody. Just because you wanted to see him play longer doesn't make him selfish.
Sure it was disappointing to see him go but at the end of the day when it comes to your profession you have to do what is in your best interests. He didn't own anything to his teammates. And even if they are mad, that's for them to decide, not the general public, Barry certainly didn't owe US anything.
As a professional football player for the NFL...he doesnt play for himself. he plays for the entertainment of the FANS......yes, thats right, US. Without the fans, the NFL is nothing. Without the fans, he wouldnt have made as much money as he did.
So he did owe us.
I disagree. When it comes down to it, professional leagues and teams are corporations just like General Motors and Microsoft. The onlydifference is that the product isn't a car or an OS, but a football team in the case of the NFL. You wouldn't say your Suburban or Windows Vista owedyou something if it crapped out on you, you'd say the company did a crappy job for putting a bad product in the stream of commerce. If anything, the blamewould be on the Lions for putting such a mediocre to poor product on the field for all those years. Barry and everyone else played as hard as they could, andin Barry's case it jut got to a point where enough was enough. I can kinda respect that.
Without the fans, the NFL is nothing.
Obviously, any company without consumers is nothingWithout the fans, he wouldnt have made as much money as he did.
Fans don't write the check. Maybe indirectly fans can influence, but they aren't what pays football players directly.
Originally Posted by worldbeefreeg
greatest running back of all time. Never had any talent around him. He is what Reggie Bush has the talent to be. He was undefinable as a runner because he could do so many things.