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Barry Sanders didn't retire due to injury. Sanders played for the Detroit Lions, a continually dismall and mismanaged team that refused to trade him or let him go into free agency. The team was and still is very poorly managed and Sanders was believed to retire out of frustration with not being able to go to another team, although he has never stated this. He says he lost his love for the game.
That was 1994. Sanders was a member of the 49ers team that won Super Bowl XXIX.
The Detroit Lions used many quarterbacks during Barry Sanders' ten seasons with the team, including Rodney Peete, Bob Gagliano, Andre Ware, Erik Kramer, Dave Krieg, Scott Mitchell and Charlie Batch.
He played for the New York Yankees, the Atlanta Braves, the Cincinnati Reds and the San Francisco Giants.
Deion played for Atlanta. San Francisco, Dallas and Washington. He returned from broadcasting to play briefly with Baltimore.