Lafayette Daily Advertiser
BATON ROUGE, La. — The only film clip LSU's Derek Stingley Jr. has seen of his grandfather was "just the hit," as he calls it.
Stingley's grandfather is the late Darryl Stingley, a wide receiver for the New England Patriots who was paralyzed for the rest of his life at age 26 after a hit by Oakland Raiders' safety Jack Tatum in a preseason game in Oakland on Aug. 12, 1978. Stingley, a first round pick of New England in 1973 out of Purdue, lived as a quadriplegic until he was 55 and died on April 5, 2007, in his native Chicago.