John Madden had an unsettling premonition about Darryl Stingley's injury. This confusion and uncertainty, a near lethargy, also afflicted the organizations. The Patriots were in the second week of ...

Darryl was carefully loaded up and carted off. The game resumed, but under a sickening pall. After the game, Madden went directly to the hospital. It was Madden's first instinct to go to Stingley.