Gene Myers, former Detroit Free Press sports editor, reflects on Barry Sanders' career with the Detroit Lions and whose fault is it that he left. Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press
Seven months before he told the world that he was done playing football, Barry Sanders told one of his teammates.
Tracy Scroggins, a Detroit Lions defensive end from 1992-2001, said Sanders confided in him that he was retiring from football on the plane ride home from the team's 1998 season-ending loss to the Baltimore Ravens.
"Let me tell you how the whole scenario took place," Scroggins said in a phone interview this week.