Lions Temporarily Retire Smith's No. 93

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Lions Temporarily Retire Smith's No. 93
Topic Started: Mar 21 2009, 07:13 PM (19 Views)
Deb	Mar 21 2009, 07:13 PM Post #1
The resident Cowboys Chick Posts: 676 Group: SUPER MOD SQUAD Member #211 Joined: February 18, 2007	Lions Temporarily Retire Smith's No. 93 Posted Mar 21st 2009 4:00PM by FanHouse Newswire (RSS feed) Filed Under: Lions The Detroit Lions are retiring the No. 93 jersey for the 2009 season, a tribute to Corey Smith, one of three men believed to be lost at sea last month following a boating mishap off Florida's coast. Galen Duncan of the Lions' front office announced the one-year retirement of Smith's jersey number at a memorial service Saturday in Smith's hometown of Richmond, Va. Smith, 29, played in Detroit for the last three years, though he was set to become a free agent this offseason. A seven-year veteran of the NFL, Smith saw action in 12 games -- including three starts -- for the Lions in 2008, and totaled 30 tackles, three sacks and an interception. "I want to tell you something about Corey Smith playing with pain," Duncan said of Smith, who played with such abandon that high school teammates called him the Tasmanian Devil. "I'd tell the coaches, `You've got to watch Corey because he's not going to tell you he's hurt,"' said Duncan, whom Smith befriended in his three seasons in Detroit. "If you could see the way this man worked." The Coast Guard rescued one man, Nick Schuyler, who was clinging to the 21-foot boat's overturned hull, on March 2, two days after it overturned in stormy seas. The bodies of Smith, Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper, and former University of South Florida player William Bleakley have not been found. Many of Smith's teammates from the Lions and from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and San Francisco 49ers where he played his first four NFL seasons attended the memorial service. So did former teammates and coaches from North Carolina State and from Richmond's John Marshall High School. His high school coach, Kevin Burden, tearfully conceded that he was never impartial about the quiet giant who was the team's undisputed leader. "You're not supposed to have a favorite player when you are a coach, but he was the one who got under your skin. He was a great football player but he was an even better man," Burden said in a faltering voice. "Tonight, when I say my prayers, I will ask God to assign me a guardian angel and he'll be wearing number 93," Burden concluded, leaving many in the crowd sobbing or wiping their eyes. Edited by Deb, Mar 21 2009, 07:14 PM.



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