Derrick Thomas documentary airing next week on NFL Network

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The 44-minute film detailed Thomas’ life from his days as a troubled youth in Miami, to an All-America career at Alabama, to the Hall of Fame tenure with the Chiefs and to his tragic death, three weeks after an automobile accident left him paralyzed in 2000.

For Chiefs fans, the film was a visit to the mostly happy decade of the 1990s, when the regime of general manager Carl Peterson and coach Marty Schottenheimer reversed the sagging franchise.

The uncomfortable side of Thomas’ life wasn’t spared. Some of the mothers of Thomas’ children — and the children — are interviewed. Thomas had seven kids with five mothers. He never married.

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