Bye Bye Barry

This was a pretty good documentary and it's great to hear directly from the man himself about why he retired and why he did it the way he did.

One of the only things that bothered me is how they kept speaking as if he had many good years left to play at that level, but he was 31 when he retired. Anybody who knows anything about professional football knows that a running back who turns 31 is nearing the end of his career. This is especially true of quick, shifty guys like Barry Sanders.

Do I know that he wouldn't have been the exception to the rule, able to keep taking rushing titles after his 35th birthday? Of course not, he was a tremendous athlete. We can never know.

It was still a very enjoyable documentary, and is a must-see for any fans of Barry Sanders, the Lions, and the NFL.

Wow! This was an amazing movie! I was glued to the TV with this presentation. I was thinking how entertaining can football clips be, but the directors executed everything perfectly from the story line to the music to the message we left with! You will not be disappointed even if you're not a football fan. The same message applied to so much in life! I cannot wait to watch this again with my boys! Barry was a class act and it's displayed well throughout the storyline. He's such a humble man...thank you for being so much to the hand of football and for setting a great example for the next generation.

I thought this was well put together. I enjoyed the footage of Barry Sanders playing and the interviews of people who knew him, played with him, and people that lived in Detroit.

Barry Sanders is a man and a talented professional athlete. He is not a God. He owed the team 100% when he was playing. He owed the coaches and management 100% as an employee of a company. That's all he owed anyone.

People seemed bothered that he was not an attention seeking self-absorbed media hound. They seem betrayed by him, that he stabbed them in the back, by not making a huge publicity extravaganza spectacle when he retired. It's none of their business. Stop worshipping athletes and celebrities. They're just people and they don't owe you anything except effort on the field.

Barry in his own words. It's a great look into the greatest that ever played covering his career to his family relationships. I think a lot of people who have been Barry fans since his days at Oklahoma State will particularly enjoy the relationship aspects between Barry and his father.

It's an NFL production, so there's the expected highlight moments throughout the film to relive or be introduced to his greatness. There's plenty of interviews from people who were questionable choices, but the comments from Barry's teammates and others make up for it.

Several in our household that aren't football fans enjoyed it as well.

Been an NFL since the Buccaneers came into the league in 1976. Barry was always the one guy the Bucs hated playing knowing that the Bucs were terrible at that time and in the same division, but that Barry was going to bring it each and every game.

I'm glad he finally came out and made peace with a lot of his fans and the NFL community as a whole. A person knows deep inside when it's time to move on, regardless of their profession.

I do have two items I'd like to point out. First, I don't agree with this show using that race hustler, Jamele Hill. Of all the out of touch people out there they could have picked, she is at the bottom of my list.

However, on a good note, Barry and his wife, Lauren, appeared to have raised four outstanding young men who just happen to be good looking too. Overall, football is exciting and fun to watch, but the end game is that these four young men that will be leaders in our future. Bravo Mr. And Mrs. Sanders!