The NFL Draft Pick Who Refused to Play for the Detroit Lions

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North Carolina running back Ethan Horton was one of the best players coming out of college. And he was crossing his fingers that the Detroit Lions wouldn't draft him, because Detroit was too cold of a city. This is the story behind that, and why his logic made no sense whatsoever
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@mpf4114 5 месяцев назад

You mentioned how the 1985 NFL Draft had two players that struggled with geography in Ethan Horton and Buster Rhymes. Another interesting commonality with these two players is that after they were drafted the next pick was a hall of fame WR. After Eathan Horton was picked the 49ers picked some guy named Jerry Rice. After Buster Rhymes was picked the Bills picked some guy named Andre Reed

@stonetank7455 5 месяцев назад

This isn't too surprising. Just last year a reporter asked Todd Bowles if the Buccaneers had any strategies for playing a playoff game in the bitter cold of Detroit, and Bowles had to remind her that the Lions play indoors. For the record, Detroit hasn't hosted an outdoor football game since Thanksgiving Day, 1974.

@cancerstinks1 5 месяцев назад

NFL: “Take him to Detroit.” Ethan Horton: “No! No, not Detroit! No! No, please! Anything but that! No! No!”

@mangrove 5 месяцев назад

Kentucky Fried Movie 🤣

@heretolearn5084 5 месяцев назад

@@mangroveqqa

@travismcnamara8919 5 месяцев назад

You ABSOLUTELY NEED to do a longer video on the Marcus Allen/Al Davis situation. Allen was my favorite player as a kid and it kind of angers me to hear some of the criticism of Allen for not replicating 1985 again when a good deal of the reduction in his production was a result of Davis purposefully reducing his production to stifle his career. He still went out and blocked his ass off as an extremely undersized fullback when called on because he was the quintessential team player. I'd greatly appreciate that and I think it would be a huge success in terms of viewership.

@matthewdaley746 5 месяцев назад

He's the only player in the history of the NFL who had their career extended because their owner benched them out of, spite, it's truly a complicated situation, what Al Davis did was horrible, OTOH, there's no way he lasts as long playing like a normal RB, it simply doesn't happen, it's absolutely impossible.

@marcus813 5 месяцев назад

If JG9 could find something to add to that saga, I could see him commissioning a documentary-style video about it. I would certainly watch it.

@matthewdaley746 5 месяцев назад

@@marcus813Egos were involved, unquestionably.

@tombriggs9259 5 месяцев назад

The man selected one pick before Jerry Rice in the 1985 draft.

@matthewdaley746 5 месяцев назад

Absolutely quintessential Lions, period.

@mangrove 5 месяцев назад

Don't remind me!

@matthewdaley746 5 месяцев назад

@mangrove Things, seriously, never, change.

@Tatorterminator66 5 месяцев назад

I think things are going to be much better for Lions fans. Dan Campbell and his guys are looking really good.

@matthewdaley746 5 месяцев назад

Don't be, so, sure, in 1991, they very, likely, would have gone to the SB had they not run into an invincible team from Washington, and, adding insult to injury, that very same team barely made the Playoffs in 1992, and, had completely fallen apart by 1993, sometimes you only get one shot, and, your best, tragically, isn't good enough.

@jovongarrison974 5 месяцев назад

They didn't make it to the playoffs in 92. However, the Lions won the NFC Central in 93 and made the playoffs again in 94 and 95.

@matthewdaley746 5 месяцев назад

@@jovongarrison974Talking about Washington, seriously.

@mrmoose6619 5 месяцев назад

Yes, you should do the long form video mentioned late in this video.

@ronaldcook3840 5 месяцев назад

You don't want to play in the NFL if you don't want to play in cold weather.

@classicrockbeagle 2 месяца назад

It reminds me of Bruce Clark, who spurned the Green Bay Packers because he didn't want to play in cold weather... so he signed with the Toronto Argonauts. Detroit is further north than KC but Detroit has Lake Erie to regulate the temperature

@arus64 5 месяцев назад

This draft class had Jerry Rice in it too and he was coming out mvsu which was in the middle of nowhere in Mississippi. I wonder how they found the school

@matthewdaley746 5 месяцев назад

The only part of Mississippi that isn't in the middle of nowhere is the coast, even Jackson, the capital, quickly, starts to drop off, fifteen minutes by car, you'd have no idea you were even, remotely, close to a major city, simple as that.

@CTubeMan 5 месяцев назад

When the 49ers played in Houston in 1984 Bill Walsh watched the local news the night before the game. He saw Rice tear it up against the local HBCU team, Texas Southern.

@matthewdaley746 5 месяцев назад

@@CTubeManVery astute experience, unquestionably.

@mr.handbones9591 5 месяцев назад

I didn't see anything about him say he didn't want to play in the cold, just that it's a cold place. This could've just been his way of saying he didn't like the city without hurting feelings. Hell maybe he was even talking about the fans being cold. Amazing how you got a whole video out of something he definitely didn't say.

@williamroark 5 месяцев назад

After LAST YEAR….. ‘DUMMY’🙄 Bring it home Coach Campbell!!!🙏👍💙

@kwakerjak 5 месяцев назад

The logic is as follows: Lower latitude, therefore higher temperatures. The fact that far more factors go into a location’s climate was lost on him.

@apeacefulmindx 5 месяцев назад

I get it but it's also stupid, majority of the year the weather is nice most places, during the season half the games are on the road and the Lions play indoors.

@basedcody781 5 месяцев назад

This story shows why rookie hazing is not the worst thing to employ

@DolFan316 5 месяцев назад

Cold weather is the least of why people shouldn't want to live in or near Detroit TBH.

@matthewdaley746 5 месяцев назад

Damn Right, it's Oakland, with nasty weather problems, the Oakland Athletics would rather play in Sacramento for three seasons, than continue to play in Oakland, that truly says it all, that's that.

@MarkVrem 5 месяцев назад

He said, Detroit showed interest. So every girl at school on the way to the test, probably reminded him.. Isn't it cold there

@JosephArmeni-ct3fc 5 месяцев назад

It's chilly,

@buzztp5119 5 месяцев назад

most of their draftees have refused to play in Detroit and on the road 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@AdamJ617 5 месяцев назад

8:13

@Foxracing218 5 месяцев назад

What a badass wall behind you

@jimtrea9151 5 месяцев назад

You'll go where your drafted and they play in a dome to many hits to the head

@HusbandOfManyWives1776 5 месяцев назад

Reminds me of mediocre qb Eli manning whined like a little baby about being on the chargers.

@matthewdaley746 5 месяцев назад

Tom Brady seethes, unequivocally.

@Yourmomgoestocolledge 5 месяцев назад

I dont blame him! First of all the Lions suck, and as a Jacksonville native, Im NOT living in Detroit! 😂😂

@johngwozdz8456 5 месяцев назад

Chatt: As a Detroiter Stationed in Mayport (our home port) along the St Johns River aboard the USS Shangri-La I can feel your pain. Jax Beach was known for its go-go bars and drunken sailors. Jacksonville was just an up-and-coming big city back then. You hated Detroit and I disliked Jacksonville having never wanted to visit Florida again.

@jamiethomas3306 5 месяцев назад

@@johngwozdz8456Jacksonville is full of trailer trash! The downtown looks nice buts doesn’t compensate for the tards.

@Motownsports89 5 месяцев назад

How far did the Jaguars get in the playoffs last year?

@americanidol30 5 месяцев назад

The Lions play in a dome. How can anybody say it's too cold?

@johnwiesner9590 5 месяцев назад

I remember just before the divisional round game in Detroit, a reporter asking the Bucs coach how he is preparing his team for the cold weather in Detroit, apparently not aware that the Lions play in an indoor stadium.

@Boomhower89 5 месяцев назад

Still have to live there. I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy.

@EdmundAspelund-vv9xs 5 месяцев назад

Deon sanders buddy 😂😂😂

@digittbr1688 5 месяцев назад

How many people live at the stadium? People still have to deal with the weather 24/7/365.

@EdmundAspelund-vv9xs 5 месяцев назад

Don't matter where you play your going to play eventuatelly in a cold weather game sanders idiotic logic and if your scared of cold weather red flag

@CTubeMan 5 месяцев назад

Horton didn’t hear a Hoo, he heard an “I’m sorry, WHAT?!”

@mangrove 5 месяцев назад

The Lions lost Billy Sims to a career-ending knee injury in 1984, and they had a new coach (the forgettable Darryl Rogers). He would have had the chance to start from Day 1. Maybe he didn't want the pressure of following a Pro Bowl, former Heisman winning back.

@DolFan316 5 месяцев назад

Ethan Horton's career rushing stats at UNC: 604 carries, 3074 yards, 22 TDs. Natrone Mean's career rushing stats at UNC: 605 carries, 3074 yards, 34 TDs. Other than the TD numbers, that's just weird.

@CrueKiss13 5 месяцев назад

I'm digging the USFL helmets! I sure wish you'd do some videos on the USFL and some of the other alternative leagues.

@OfficialJaguarGator9 5 месяцев назад

Thanks! I live stream all the UFL games. We’ll do some alternate league history vids in the future possibly

@Sportstalkchud 5 месяцев назад

Geography must not be on the Wonderlic Test

@matthewdaley746 5 месяцев назад

Wonderlic, Test, seriously, fraudulent.

@rushbroussard5399 5 месяцев назад

THE LIONS USED TO PLAY OUTSIDE THEY PLAY INSIDE FROM THE PONTIAC SILVERDOME TO FORD FIELD THE LIONS LOVE PLAYING INSIDE

@Backpackfiles 5 месяцев назад

A LOT OF CAPITALS AND NO PUNCTUATION.

@Larry_Harvilla 5 месяцев назад

The Lions last played home games outdoors in 1974, at the old Tiger Stadium in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit. So you are correct that they did once play outdoors, but it has been a while.

@johncate9541 5 месяцев назад

When you said he made that comment about cold weather, my first thought was that the Lions played in the Silverdome, and he'd never have to play a home game in the cold there!

@checkdown3774 5 месяцев назад

Playing in cold weather is post season football. You can't handle a bit of cold maybe look into under water welding?

@randytracy1742 5 месяцев назад

Good video, jg9! When you talked about Ethan Horton, you quoted a title from a Dr Seuss book-that was funny hearing it from you! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@michaelroberts6450 5 месяцев назад

I remember when John Elway refused publicly to play for the Colts at the time and his sense of entitlement did not sit well with NFL fans initially , and I can imagine Colt fans probably never did forgive him and deservedly so. Ethan was a great college back, not really sure why he didn't successfully transition to the NFL game as a running back.

@matthewdaley746 5 месяцев назад

Sadly, he never, remotely, lost that sense of entitlement, after SB 32, you'll notice something in, re-airings, he never lets anybody else, so, much as touch, The, Vince Lombardi Trophy, despite, doing next to nothing in that Game, as a result, it now goes through a receiving line before reaching the podium, that Game was, John Elway In A Nutshell, The, Perfect Teammate, (until he wasn't).

@DolFan316 5 месяцев назад

The '85 draft was a historically awful one for RBs. How awful was it? Herschel Walker was the only one in the class with over 1950 rushing yards for his *career.* Doug Flutie had more career rushing yards than all but one other RB drafted that year. Naturally, my team came into this draft in desperate need for RBs.

@matthewdaley746 5 месяцев назад

There was a time when they had only five seasons of over 1,000 rushing yards for a RB, and, Larry Csonka alone actually accounted for three of them, that's just totally horrible, that's that.

@chrisuncleahmad 4 месяца назад

To quote the great Chris Berman: "Ethan Horton, who hears a who" He did have a decent stretch of years for the Raiders

@Brocuzgodlocdunfamdogson 5 месяцев назад

He was just sick of wearing blue and white.

@Tubewings 5 месяцев назад

There was another Raiders running back (well, technically fullback) that shifted to tight end during his time there. However, that particular player was still on the team when the conversion happened, which allowed him to keep his old number (#46), unlike Horton, who was cut from the team as a running back (#23), then was resigned as a tight end (#88). And, yes, JG9 did a video on that particular tight end which I will link below... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ttu0gyGieLo.html

@stephenconnors7380 5 месяцев назад

Let's forget about the fact that the Lions play in a dome for a second. He's apparently refusing to play for the: Patriots, Giants, Jets, Eagles, Steelers, Browns, Bengals, Bears, Packers, Commanders, Ravens, and Chiefs, Thirteen of 32 teams, or 40% of the teams are a no-go based on playing in the cold late in the season. Given that the Vikings and Colts also play in domes, he probably feels the same way about them too? Up that figure to 47%, almost half the league. Of course, any Southern/West Coast team he plays for will probably have late-season road games in those cold cities too. May I suggest he look for a different line of work?

@apeacefulmindx 5 месяцев назад

Deion Sander played in the league and also refused to play in Detroit for similar reasons. Actually, said something about his son going to a cold weather team yet he recruits kids to Colorado. I respect Deion but on this he needs to leave it be.

@bcranford714 5 месяцев назад

The lions haven't played outdoor home games since 1974

@derektorres9275 5 месяцев назад

And yet Kansas City is a warm city. What is this guy thinking

@Wisconsin222 5 месяцев назад

Actually you are technically wrong Kansas City can in fact be significantly warmer in winter compared to Detroit because of how much further south it is but what makes his statement asinine is, and someone mentioned it in these comments, is that Detroit plays in a dome. It’s not like the Packers who play in the open cold weather nope Detroit always has played in a dome. So even the fact is it significantly warmer in Kansas City than Detroit still doesn’t matter

@Richard-mq7wf 5 месяцев назад

open your ears. He didn't say, "I don't want to play in a cold weather city". DERP!

@Baalzz302 5 месяцев назад

KC significantly warmer in the winter? Nope, and I'll tell you why. The cold zone drops all the way to North Texas in the winters, the ultra cold zone in the winter is the Northern Planes through Minnesota, and parts of Wisconsin. The Great Lakes protect, lower Mich and the Detroit area in particular from the ultra cold winters. So due to geography, Detroit would be pretty much the same temp avg as KC is in the winter.

@Wisconsin222 5 месяцев назад

@@Baalzz302 still an asinine statement because the Lions could be based on the North Pole and it still wouldn’t matter because they play in a dome

@Wisconsin222 5 месяцев назад

@@matthewdaley746 but again that’s not what was said, now if he said “I don’t want to play in Detroit, Atlanta, Cleveland, or any other city with high crime” that would have been totally logical and justified Kansas City

@Baalzz302 5 месяцев назад

@@matthewdaley746 Correction: in the 80's and 90's Detroit was nasty, they have turned a 180 since. Still have abandoned factory buildings and Holmes, but downtown is quite beautiful and crime free these days.

@retrogaminggenesis6102 5 месяцев назад

I feel like you did another video on a big name who didn't want to go to either Chicago or Minnesota but ended up absolutely loving it there. I can't put my name on him though.

@OfficialJaguarGator9 5 месяцев назад

Darrin Nelson said there was nothing to do in Minnesota

@retrogaminggenesis6102 5 месяцев назад

@@OfficialJaguarGator9 OH YEAH, that's it! You got a good memory for all the trivia you have to cover.

@CTubeMan 5 месяцев назад

Close enough, you get a Cognac!

@michaelotto8696 5 месяцев назад

Guess that means he wasn't a candidate for the Frozen Tundra!!! 🤣🤣🤣

@TheBeefSlayer 2 месяца назад

Everyone doesn’t know that Kansas City is almost as cold as Detroit. I can understand why someone would think Detroit would be colder. It makes sense. And apparently it is actually colder on average according to this guys graph.

@brianevans6328 26 дней назад

I'm glad the Chargers drafted me instead of the Seahawks because I don't want to play on the West Coast.

@maxscameraguy 5 месяцев назад

Keep in mind the level of education you received compared to these NFL players. I can tell that you are much better learner and more learned then most of these NFL players. So if they never looked at a map or couldn't tell you where the Mississippi river was, I wouldn't be all to surprised.

@Shelly-l7i 4 месяца назад

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@newtheis 5 месяцев назад

The words "Refused to Play for the Detroit Lions" Never came out of my mouth - Ethan Horton

@kylekahler3381 5 месяцев назад

He was such a great running back that after about 2 years they made him a tight end.

@samriley8278 5 месяцев назад

Thank god he Detroit drafted Lima’s Brown

@toekneecovarrubias6185 5 месяцев назад

HE WASNT TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER

@brianliddle2197 5 месяцев назад

Green Bay colder!

@matthewdaley746 5 месяцев назад

Team seriously wonderful, in-addition.

@kevinc764 5 месяцев назад

Let me guess Kansas City was too cold for him after all. Should have come to Detroit in a nice cozy dome🤔SMH

@geno1399 5 месяцев назад

No disrespect to the Bills, idky they dont play in a dome

@travismcnamara8919 5 месяцев назад

Home field advantage ;)

@marcus813 5 месяцев назад

I guess that woman who asked Todd Bowles about Detroit's cold weather shouldn't feel alone! 😆 Horton clearly forgot that the Pontiac Silverdome near Detroit was a lot more comfortable late in the season than Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. was. That would be like being drafted by the Patriots and feeling relieved that the Colts didn't draft you instead due to cold weather. The Colts don't even open Lucas Oil Stadium's roof late in the season for obvious reasons.