Darrell Bevell was at Henry Ford Museum with is wife, three daughters and two future sons-in-law when he got an urgent text Saturday afternoon from Matt Patricia’s chief of staff, Kevin Anderson, telling him to call Detroit Lions president Rod Wood right away.
Bevell and his family had just finished a glassblowing exhibit at the museum and stepped inside the gift shop to purchase an ornament when the Lions new interim head coach excused himself to find out he was being named just that.
“It’s never good when you get a call-the-president-ASAP (text), so I called them and Rod patched (owner) Sheila (Ford Hamp) in and we had just a brief conversation at that moment, what they had done with Coach and Bob,” Bevell said.