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SANDERS

FILE--Detroit Lions first round draft pick Barry Sanders appears during a news conference after signing his first NFL contract at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich., in 1989. Sanders is quitting football, despite the near certainty of becoming the NFL's career rushing leader this season. "My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision," Sanders said in a statement released Wednesday, July 28, 1999. (AP Photo/John Stormzand, File)