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NFL Football Players Draft Injuries Rookies Season SuperbowlPublished: August 1, 2009
The running back was easy to spot, for he was the only one not wearing a helmet on his bemusing head.
“Coach,” Gilmer calmly said to one of his assistants, “tell that boy to put a helmet on his head.”
The young running back, Joe Don Looney, might have played some football sans helmet, at some point in his life.
It’s another day at Cranbrook, the high brow school whose campus the Lions used for training until the early-1970s. Again, Looney is the focus.
Joe Don didn’t want to practice that day. Gilmer sent team captain Schmidt up to Looney’s dorm room to talk to him.
Schmidt found Looney on his bed, strumming a guitar.
“Joe,” Schmidt began, sitting across from Looney. “The team needs you on the field. I’ve played...
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