Stingley’s grandfather, Darryl Stingley, saw his career end abruptly in 1978 with a spinal cord injury on a tackle during a presseason game for the New England Patriots. The gruesome memory of ...

John Madden had an unsettling premonition about Darryl Stingley's injury. This confusion and uncertainty, a near lethargy, also afflicted the organizations. The Patriots were in the second week of ...