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How Dan Skipper reported eligible and became a beloved Lion


[From ESPN]

The Lions have this 13 personnel (one running back, three tight ends, including Skipper) run the play out of two formations, buzz and bunch, and the well-intentioned Lions fans have drowned out quarterback Jared Goff's second syllable.

Skipper needed something to do, so he started working at his in-laws' pie shop in Texas, making 100 pie crusts per day, "with the big *** Hobart mixer making 50 pumpkin pies at time," Skipper says.

On the afternoon before 53-man rosters were due to the league office in August, Skipper sat in his hotel room and stared out the window into the parking lot, doing the math in his head as one by one, his teammates walked out to their cars and drove off to the facility to get cut.

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Read more of ESPN's story HERE


SOURCE www.espn.com

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