GREEN BAY, Wis. -- He had to text. Calling everyone else was hard enough. He wasn’t about to get all sappy and weepy with a two-time NFL MVP on the other end of the line.
T.J. Lang made a lot of difficult phone calls after deciding last Sunday to leave the Green Bay Packers for the Detroit Lions in free agency. The 29-year-old Pro Bowl guard had hoped -- and publicly said so, over and over -- that he would stay with the only NFL team he had ever known. So after his hometown Lions gave him an offer he couldn’t refuse -- a three-year, $28.