A call from the NFL after 402 days awaySourced
No catch for 402 days.
Then an NFL team called.
After being cut, Don Summers sold cars. A local paper reported that he went 402 days without catching a football or lifting weights. During the 1987 players' strike, his former team invited him back as a replacement player, and he appeared in three games.
A very unexpected call
from a former workplace.
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