Detroit Lions star WR Calvin Johnson retires after 9 seasons
Associated PressDETROIT — Calvin Johnson, one the most spectacular receivers in NFL history, retired from the Detroit Lions on Tuesday and rekindled memories of the way superstar running back Barry Sanders quietly stepped away from football. “Not only is he as good as any player I’ve ever seen, but I am convinced that God has not put a finer person on this earth than Calvin Johnson,” Caldwell said. They don’t make football players that big, ripped up like him with the ability to run fluidly like he does.” Raiola and Rob Sims, another former offensive lineman for the Lions, will never forget watching Johnson lift and flip huge tractor tires with ease as if they were small enough to fit on a bicycle “We were like, ‘Man, look at that,’” Sims recalled, several months after seeing the spectacle. “That’ll be a story I’ll tell my grandkids about when they ask me about Calvin Johnson.” When Johnson was asked to react to what his teammates said about him back then, the soft-spoken native of Tyrone, Georgia, simply shrugged his shoulders and offered one of his many aw-shucks responses.
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