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General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Topic started by: TomSea on December 03, 2018, 09:08:43 pm

Title: Ex-Detroit Lions GM Matt Millen in hospital, awaiting heart transplant
Post by: TomSea on December 03, 2018, 09:08:43 pm
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Ex-Detroit Lions GM Matt Millen in hospital, awaiting heart transplant
Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press Published 11:33 a.m. ET Dec. 3, 2018

In early October, we learned that former Detroit Lions general manager Matt Millen stepped away from his job as a game analyst for the Big Ten Network to further focus on his health.

NBCSports.com's Peter King has shed some light on what Millen has been doing since.

In his Football Morning in America column published on Monday, King reports that since Oct. 3, when the BTN announced Millen was stepping down, the 60-year-old former linebacker-turned-TV analyst-turned-football executive has been under hospital care in New Jersey.

Read more at: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2018/12/03/matt-millen-hospital-heart-transplant-detroit-lions/2191768002/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2018/12/03/matt-millen-hospital-heart-transplant-detroit-lions/2191768002/)

I hope he can recover. I remember when he was a big star with the Raiders, played for Penn State also.
Title: Re: Ex-Detroit Lions GM Matt Millen in hospital, awaiting heart transplant
Post by: skeeter on December 03, 2018, 09:39:44 pm
Yes, he was a big part of the Raiders back when they were good.
Title: Re: Ex-Detroit Lions GM Matt Millen in hospital, awaiting heart transplant
Post by: mountaineer on December 03, 2018, 09:59:55 pm
Scary. A tough prognosis to face.