“She was the only person I was thinking about once we got the call, because how do you explain to a 7-year-old she wasn’t going to see her mother anymore?”Īfterward they went to live with aunts, being passed from home to home, four in the first year, he said. “Once I looked at my little sister, who was 7 at the time and so sad, I knew it wasn’t about me,” he was quoted as saying. Glenn told The Chicago Tribune in 1997 that he briefly considered suicide until he realized he had to go on living for his younger sister’s sake. He abducted her and left her to die in an abandoned building in Columbus. When he was 13, his mother, Donetta, 29, was beaten to death by a man whose romantic overtures toward her had been spurned. He never knew his father, who had abandoned the family. Terry Tyree Glenn was born in Columbus, Ohio, on July 23, 1974. A product of a broken home himself, he was the foundation’s chairman.
He remained in Texas after his playing days ended and started the 83 Kids Foundation, which assists troubled children. A year earlier, he had been arrested at an Irving hotel on charges of public intoxication and marijuana possession. In 2010, Glenn was arrested in Irving, Tex., on auto theft charges in what his lawyer said was a mix-up over a car rental. He finished his career with 8,823 yards receiving and 44 touchdowns. In 2005 in Dallas, Glenn had a career-high seven touchdowns along with 1,136 yards. He went to the Cowboys in 2003, reuniting with Parcells, who had been hired that year to coach the team. The Patriots traded Glenn to the Packers before the 2002 season in exchange for two draft picks. He was just one of my guys, a special guy.”
I told him in the locker room, ‘You keep making plays like that, I’m going to call you Miss America.’ ” We wound up winning that game in the last minute. “It was late in the game in the fourth quarter, and we were behind. “He caught a pass his rookie year down at Giants Stadium,” The Fort Worth Star-Telegram quoted Parcells as saying. Glenn outside Foxboro Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., in 2000, when he played for the New England Patriots.
The club also withheld a bonus payment because of off-field issues that included an arrest over an incident involving the mother of his 5-year-old son. Louis Rams, 20-17, also at the Superdome.īut Glenn had missed the playoffs, having been suspended by the Patriots for multiple unexcused absences from practices and meetings. Brady had taken over for an injured Drew Bledsoe that season and went on to lead the Patriots to their first of five Super Bowl titles when they defeated the St. Glenn is remembered for catching Tom Brady’s first touchdown pass, a 21-yarder in a 29-26 overtime win over San Diego at Foxboro Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., in 2001. rookie record with 90 catches for a team that reached the Super Bowl before losing to the Packers, 35-21, at the Superdome in New Orleans. The Patriots drafted Glenn seventh overall in 1996 when Bill Parcells was coach. He played 12 seasons in the N.F.L., from 1996 to 2007, including six with the Patriots, five with the Cowboys and one with the Green Bay Packers. He won the Biletnikoff Award (named after the former Oakland Raiders wide receiver Fred Biletnikoff) as the nation’s top college receiver in 1995, piling up 1,411 yards and 17 touchdowns in his only year as a starter for Ohio State.
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