Lions’ Tate lends a hand at wreck site
Detroit Lions wide receiver Golden Tate was driving to work Tuesday when he was behind a two-car accident on a freeway. He ended up spending about 45 minutes to help a woman and her young daughter.
“No one was stopping or getting out to see what was going on,” Tate recalled. “I just put it in park, put my flashers on and made sure everything was OK. I made sure the car was off because it was smoking. I made sure the driver was OK, which she was. Then, I went straight to the little girl.”
Tate said a 3-year-old girl appeared to be safe but shaken, sitting in the back seat of the car while her mother was making phone calls to get help. Tate and his wife, Elise, had their first child, a girl named Londyn, earlier this year, and his paternal instincts kicked in at the scene of the accident.
“I didn’t even ask. I just picked her up,” Tate recalled. “I probably should’ve asked, but I did what I would’ve done if Londyn was in that situation.”
Tate said he didn’t exchange information with the woman in the accident and no one recognized him other than a police officer, who pounded fists with him before he resumed his commute to the team’s training facility.
“Hey, good game last week. I didn’t want to say anything in front of them,” Tate recalled the police officer saying.
No thanks, Dez
Jerry Jones became the latest member of the Dallas Cowboys’ power structure to express disinterest in a potential reunion with free agent wide receiver Dez
Bryant, saying he’s comfortable with how the team currently sits at the wide receiver position.
Bryant, who remains unemployed despite reported interest from a handful of teams during the offseason, took to
Twitter earlier this week to hint at a passing interest in rejoining the Cowboys.
Echoing what Cowboys Coach Jason Garrett had to say on the Bryant front, Jones on Friday dismissed any possibility of the wide receiver being brought back to Big D.
“I know I’m the one to ask as a response to that, but as you know, we’re friends,” Jones said on KRLD-FM, as transcribed by The Dallas News. “To say the least, we’re friends. I have a lot of pride in where [Bryant] is relative to our relationship as it pertains to him as an individual. I mirror feelings of that nature. It just seems like [Bryant] is a Cowboy.
“But we’ve got to look at what we’re all having to deal with, and what’s in the best interest of the team. So, that’s a different story there.”
As Jones noted, he and Bryant remain friends — as evidenced by their recent outing together at a Beyonce concert — despite the unceremonious way their professional relationship ended. While there is no way to predict what Jones may or may not do at any given moment, it certainly seems a reunion with Bryant will not be happening.
“I’m just trying to say we feel good about Dez and wish him the very best,” Jones said. “Trust me, if it were in our best interests, his and ours and the team’s, then he’d be on the field for the Cowboys.”