It’s really not that shocking that a Running Back retired after 10 years in the nfl. Most guys don’t last for more then 3. The freaks Can last over 10 years and be productive as a running back.

Article is more or less crap, but the videos were fun to watch again. I forgot how common horsecollar tackles used to be

Well, why didn’t he just go to another team instead of languishing at Detroit?

“Finally”? The fucking article says it was essentially the same thing he said 24 years ago.

Check out the doc. Highly recommended very well done

Why do people always pretend he retired super young and in his prime. He was 30 and already played for ten seasons. The wheels were about to fall off.

As a bears fan, sweetness is the GOAT in my heart.

But, pure ability to rush the ball no matter what (team skill, offensive philosophy, down/distance, game situation, etc) Barry can’t be touched. He could make everything out of nothing at his discretion.

I thought it was interesting when they had Wayne Fontes talking with Sanders, and Fontes said he tried to get late career Joe Montna (going to Lions instead of Chiefs) and Warren Moon to come in, but the GM said they were too old. I didn’t follow the Lions at all back then, but if true that sure sounds like a really interesting “What if…” scenario. They called Fontes the ultimate salesman, so maybe he was just saying that to make himself look better. But it’s all interesting nonetheless.

He finally reveals why he retired: says exactly what he said 20 years ago. Incredible story.

I always thought it was more of a passion issue. Like that, he had expended his mental energy with football and just didn’t have the will to keep going after that. Barry talking about the guys who left the prior years who had battled with for a while makes sense in that the bond he had with the team was slipping. As another extremely competitive person, I get it. You never want to fight for something not giving 100%. If he didn’t have that in him anymore, then it makes sense he retired.

Barry said at his hall of fame speech that he was sorry for all of the times he lost yards. He definitely killed drives, I remember that. You can’t get a touchdown on every touch. Just get 2-3 yrds… or 5. Just get a first down. He didn’t play like that.

CBS really gonna bring up Barry retiring during the best Lions season in 60 years. Cruel. Like telling someone “Hey congrats on your promotion, remember when your dad died though.”

Wish he would have gotten traded to a top 5 team at the time.

So absolutely nothing new and Amazon made a pointless documentary on it. Cool, I’ll save some time and just watch his highlights again on YouTube.

I lived in the same town as Barry as a kid. One day my brother had a baseball game at one of the high schools and me and two of the other younger brothers were out walking around. We went on the football field and there was Barry fucking sanders, doing some drills on his own.

He was so cool to us, he said he was about to go inside and shoot some hoops and he took us with him. We spent about 30 min with him before we went back to the baseball game. I was 9/10 and didn’t fully grasp how rediculously amazing the experience was for a few more years.

No one ever believes me when I tell them I played bball with Barry that day. But I did. And he was the most down to earth superstar ever man and he was so kind to us when he could have told us to buzz off.

Barry Sanders for life man.

I met herman Moore at a Burger King about 5 years later and he was also nice but nothing could compare to that random June day at Rochester Adams high School.