The Detroit Lions were compelled on Wednesday to issue late-night statements of support from team owner Martha Firestone Ford, general manager Bob Quinn and team president Rod Wood following the unearthing of an indictment of new head coach Matt Patricia from an incident that allegedly occurred 22 years ago.
Patricia also issued his own statement in defense of charges that were raised against him at the time by a woman who said that Patricia, then 21 years old, and another Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute football player “burst” into her South Padre Island, Texas hotel room and took turns sexually assaulting her.