He featured in five Pro Bowls and held the record for passes attempted and completed, passing yards, and passing touchdowns. The Lions had a good thing going for them, until they traded him against his wishes. Evidently, the franchise figured that he was past his prime, plus he was a bit of a wild child. So, they gambled and traded him to Pittsburgh on Oct. Obviously, Layne was fuming and tore into the team, not realising that he had a black tongue. Little did Layne know that the Lions would take his words to heart.
From until , the Lions only made it as far as the playoffs on nine occasions. So it was crazy putting myself in his shoes and living through him for that period in time, and actually being able to walk the same footsteps he walked. Atlanta mostly stands in for the Motor City, although production was able to squeeze in about five days of shooting in Detroit, which was essential for showrunner and Detroit native Randy Huggins. Huggins, a former elementary school teacher before transitioning to the entertainment industry, was proud to be able to shoot in high profile areas such as Hart Plaza and Belle Isle, as well as some parts of the city he had yet to explore.
Researching and building the show meant having a lot of conversations with Big Meech, who is currently serving a year sentence in an Oregon prison. His sentence was reduced earlier this year , and he's on track to be released in The specific details of the time period were important to Meech — "if there's lyrics in the music it's not real, because the music we were listening to was all beat-driven," Huggins was told — as well as to Huggins, who grew up in the same era in the city as the Flenory brothers.
And those details in the series are rich, from conversations at Coney Islands to visible cans of Faygo pop to shots and mentions of Cobo Arena, Boblo Island, the Uniroyal Tire, Marathon's oil refinery and the now defunct Club Taboo.
Characters watch "The Scene" on television and greet each other by saying "whatupdoe. Meanwhile, on the radio broadcast, Van Patrick and Bob Reynolds in very somber tones tried to fill the time as best they could. I thought maybe he had choked on his mouthpiece. Dru and I immediately ran down and although they would not let us on the field, we waited next to the ambulance.
As the medical personnel ran Hughes off the field on the gurney, the fans were standing and not a sound could be heard. The receiver, one of 14 children raised in meager circumstance in west Texas, never regained consciousness. None of the players at that point cared about the game, and when play resumed with 62 seconds left, the Bears ran out the clock with their victory after Landry threw an incomplete pass to Altie Taylor.
With the media banned from entering the Lions locker room, head coach Joe Schmidt had gathered his players, many of whom were sitting in front of their lockers, still in their uniforms and openly weeping. It stopped again. Our whole team is filled with a great sense of sorrow. Chuck was a great player and a great person.
The report also mentioned that there was old scarring on the posterior wall of the heart indicating evidence of previous heart trauma. You could have had the Cleveland Clinic and the Mayo Clinic on the field that day but he was not going to survive. If I had known he had the disease I would have advised him not to play football. The Lions doctors explained that injuries Hughes suffered in an exhibition game Sept.
Prior to an exhibition on Sept. I want to play though.
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