When Andrew Luck was booed at Lucas Oil Stadium in 2019 amid his retirement news getting out, former Colts wide receiver T.Y. Hilton recently spoke about what could have been if fans hadn’t acted that way.
Hilton appeared on an episode of The Trenches with Colts linebacker Zaire Franklin and touched on several topics involving Luck.
“It hurt, bro,” Hilton said of the night Luck was booed. “It hurt. I know that it hurt him. We had talks. But that, it wasn’t right. Indy shouldn’t have did that.”
If the fans didn’t boo Luck, Hilton said the city would have had another “Luck sighting.”
“That’s what’s going to hurt them even more,” Hilton said. “I’m just saying if you didn’t send him off that way, we had talks. You might have gotten another Luck sighting. I’m just going to tell you that.”
After Luck retired, Hilton said he spoke with the former Colts quarterback about the 2019 season.
“When I talked to him I said, ‘I’m with you, bro. But you retired one year too early,'” Hilton said. “He had a line and everything. Best in football. … He had all the weapons around him to be successful. That was our year.”