In 1999, when a 30-year-old Barry Sanders retired and left the Detroit Lions to continue their 50-year long dark age, the football world was forever changed. When a 30-year-old Calvin Johnson left the same franchise 17 years later, people genuinely shed tears at the announcement.
The news of Andrew Luck's sudden retirement due to a litany of injuries will be thought of in these same breaths as it will go down forever in football lore as a moment that altered the landscape of the NFL.
What Luck Meant to the NFL
Luck’s career wasn’t a long one.