While serving the community alongside other retired players, the former Detroit Lion remains devoted to the team.

Twenty-five years ago, Tim Walton’s NFL debut with the Detroit Lions was comparatively quiet. However, the Detroit native now has a significant impact on the community by collaborating with other former NFL players.As an undrafted linebacker from Ball State University, Tim Walton joined the Detroit Lions in the National Football League with little fanfare and the hard way. The Detroit native’s signing to the Lions’ developmental squad on September 6, 1989, is mentioned in passing in the team’s 1990 media guide, which is buried deep inside a list of roster transactions made by the team in 1989. Twenty-five years later, Walton said he is still happy to wear the Honolulu blue and silver. But these days he shows his pride.in ways that go beyond football, as demonstrated on November 26 when Walton, Detroit PAL, and other community partners organised a group of retired NFL players to gather outside Detroit PAL’s headquarters, The Corner Ballpark, to distribute more than 500 free turkeys and side dishes to local families in an effort to help them eat Thanksgiving. Walton, president of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) Detroit Chapter, said with joy, “We do a lot to give back, and the guys love giving back.” My desire for making people smile in our neighbourhood is heightened by the fact that I was born and raised here. And to perform with our retiring players in front of PALFor our firefighters and police, that was such a lovely gesture.