Jt Tsley tells the story of how NFL greats Mel Farr and Lem Barney helped Marv Gaye out of a tough time and then got him a tryout wh the Detro Lns.
Contents:
- HOW MARV GAYE'S NFL TRYOUT CHANGED HIS REER
- WHEN DID MARV GAYE TRY OUT FOR A SPOT IN THE NFL?
- MARV GAYE ONCE TRIED OUT FOR THE NFL (AND IT SAVED HIS MIC CAREER)
- WATCH: REVISG LEGENDARY ARTIST MARV GAYE'S ATTEMPT TO JO DETRO LNS 1970
- MARV GAYE ONCE TRIED OUT FOR THE NFL
HOW MARV GAYE'S NFL TRYOUT CHANGED HIS REER
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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. "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.
WHEN DID MARV GAYE TRY OUT FOR A SPOT IN THE NFL?
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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. 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.
MARV GAYE ONCE TRIED OUT FOR THE NFL (AND IT SAVED HIS MIC CAREER)
I uldn't perform, " Gaye told a iend.
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.
WATCH: REVISG LEGENDARY ARTIST MARV GAYE'S ATTEMPT TO JO DETRO LNS 1970
'" Gaye told David Rz "Divid Soul: The Life of Marv Gaye. " After beg turned down by different Motown acts, Benson and Cleveland took the ia to Gaye 1970. Gaye told Barney and Farr about the song after a round of golf, sayg he wanted the song to be given to The Origals, a group Gaye had taken unr his ia never got off the ground.
Benson was adamant about Gaye rerdg the song, even offerg a percentage of the rerd. But Gaye's ultimatum was ser.
MARV GAYE ONCE TRIED OUT FOR THE NFL
They had been the stud wh Gaye before as guts, but now he wanted to put them to work.
"The two Lns helped revive Gaye's spir, battered through current events and all but dormant sce Terrell's passg. "Not long after the rerdg ssn, Gaye unleashed another bombshell. Now Gaye wanted them to be out for a profsnal football team is difficult.
He relled the nversatn his book, "Marv Gaye, My Brother.