William Gay Stats | The Football Database

Contents:

• HOW MARV GAYE'S NFL TRYOUT CHANGED HIS REER
• WHEN DID MARV GAYE TRY OUT FOR A SPOT IN THE NFL?
• DAN CAMPBELL, DETRO LNS ACH ONT-NNER, MA NTROVERSIAL ANTI-GAY REMARK LLEGE
• WILLIAM GAY
• WILLIAM GAY
• DETRO LNS ACH DAN CAMPBELL APOLOGIZ FOR ANTI-GAY REMARK OM HIS LLEGE DAYS
• LNS HEAD ACH DAN CAMPBELL ISSU NEW APOLOGY FOR MAKG ANTI-GAY REMARK LLEGE
• WILLIAM GAY
• WILLIAM GAY

HOW MARV GAYE'S NFL TRYOUT CHANGED HIS REER

Y, that’s right, two active members of Detro’s NFL team appeared on Marv Gaye’s h sgle “What’s Gog On? How did Mel Farr and Lem Barney end up as backup sgers for Gaye, one of Motown’s biggt stars?

WHEN DID MARV GAYE TRY OUT FOR A SPOT IN THE NFL?

After a round of morng golf, teammat Barney happened to be Gaye’s neighborhood suburban Detro one afternoon durg the summer of 1968.

Acrdg to Jt Tsley of The Unfeated, Barney found Gaye’s hoe and knocked on the door. The Lns’ Pro Bowl fensive back didn’t know Marv Gaye, but the sger knew him.

DAN CAMPBELL, DETRO LNS ACH ONT-NNER, MA NTROVERSIAL ANTI-GAY REMARK LLEGE

A few years later, when Detro songwrer Al Cleveland approached Gaye wh a song he’d wrten about the epimic of police killgs of blacks Ameri, Gaye was reluctant at first.

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But when some of Gaye’s iends, cludg Farr and Barney, heard the song, they urged the Detro sger to rerd . “I’ll do if you sg wh me, ” Gaye reportedly told the two football stars. The background vols are Farr and Barney wh Gaye on a send track backg his own lead vols.

Ironilly, nsirg the tr of Detro stars on the rerd, Gaye was forced to issue on a private label.

” Gaye had 100, 000 pi ma and sent to rad statns and rerd stor across the untry. Farr and Barney later turned the tabl on Gaye and axed him to tryg out for the Lns.

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Palmer, one of four proment urs the area, attracted many of the cy's black celebri, cludg Joe Louis, Smokey Robson and The had heard Marv Gaye, one of his favore artists, lived nearby. Gaye sang the sre to Barney's high school and llege years at Jackson State Universy. The send-year fensive back troduced himself to Palmer's clubhoe employe, who quickly obliged wh his requt for Gaye's easily found Marv's hoe, ls than a e-and-a-half om the urse.

When the legendary Motown crooner and avid sports fan opened the door, he stantly regnized Barney, vg him for nearly two hours, the athlete and the sger chatted like longtime iends, bond by mutual passns: sports and embraced by Marv Gaye would e to have s perks.

DETRO LNS ACH DAN CAMPBELL APOLOGIZ FOR ANTI-GAY REMARK OM HIS LLEGE DAYS

"Marv Gaye's hoe. And wh weeks, the three were separable, wh Gaye regularly attendg Lns practic and gam, even playg golf and basketball two Lns entered Gaye's life as a dark cloud of uncertaty and prsn stalked Terrell had replaced Kim Wton as Gaye's rerdg partner 1967.

LNS HEAD ACH DAN CAMPBELL ISSU NEW APOLOGY FOR MAKG ANTI-GAY REMARK LLEGE

Gaye and Terrell produced timels os such as "A't No Mounta High Enough, " "A't Nothg Like The Real Thg" and "You're All I Need To Get By, " spirg pop culture stapl s later Hollywood ("Remember The Tans") and hip-hop (Method Man and Mary J.

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She llapsed Gaye's arms while performg at Hampn-Sydney College medil diagnosis revealed a bra tumor.

As she slowly whered away, a large piece of Gaye's soul did, too. I uldn't perform, " Gaye told a iend.

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Gaye openly sobbed at her funeral, yet gathered the strength to liver a movg logy, tellg the crowd of her urage to endure seven bra procr over two relled that Gaye stopped sgg and rerdg.

The Watts and Detro rts revealed entire muni disgted by s of racial and soc-enomic the same time, Gaye's brother Frankie returned om Vietnam filled wh horror stori of young men dyg a never-endg, sensels war. The ias and imag rattled Gaye. '" Gaye told David Rz "Divid Soul: The Life of Marv Gaye.