If you have been meandering the wild west that is the interwebs, odds are that you have been reading articles about the “retirement” of Calvin Johnson. I would put good money that most of the top rated (or most liked) comments utter a sentiment similar to “Geez, the Lions ruined another career of a Hall of Fame talent…….”. While those comments may seem, on the surface, to be valid complaints, nothing could be further from the truth.
These two retirements have nothing to do with each other. Both players played for the Detroit Lions and that is where the parallels end.