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Billy Ray Sims (born September 18, 1955) is an American former football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for five seasons from 1980 to 1984. Sims played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners , where he was a two-time consensus All-American , and won the Heisman Trophy in 1978.
On October 21, 1984, during a game against the Minnesota Vikings, Billy Sims suffered a career ending knee injury. He spent two years trying to rehab his injury before retiring in 1986. [124] Sims' injury would set the tone for the rest of the season as the Lions finished with a 4–11–1 record. [125] Monte Clark was fired after the season. [126]
The 1980 Detroit Lions season was the 51st season in franchise history. As the result of their 2–14 1979 season, the Lions were able to select Heisman Trophy-winning Oklahoma Sooner halfback Billy Sims with the first pick in the NFL draft.
1980: Billy Sims. Net worth: $100,000. Billy Sims played only five seasons in the NFL before his career with the Detroit Lions was cut short by a knee injury. Sims’ career was as brilliant as it ...
Sims confirmed that Trumbull did not know what laid beyond that seemingly innocuous door, then launched into a monologue about his childhood, as the son of a janitor. Sims related a story of being ...
Fink also questioned whether 65 is an appropriate age for people to retire, despite data from the US Census Bureau showing that is the average age for men to leave the workforce while women tended ...
Billy Sims (No. 20) rushing the ball against the Los Angeles Rams on September 7, 1980 Aside from a brief change to scarlet and black from 1948 to 1950 instituted by then head coach Bo McMillin , which was influenced by his years as coach at Indiana , the Lions' uniforms have basically remained the same since they moved to Detroit in 1934 ...
In 1988, he returned to the blues, founding Bill Sims and the Cold Blooded Blues Band. He released his debut album, Blues Before Sunrise, in 1992, and in 1999, PBS did a 10-hour documentary on Sims and his interracial family (with Sims's partner Karen Wilson). [3] Sims released another album to coincide with this broadcast.