Tank McNamara by Bill Hinds for November 16, 2024

More important question is how do you get an owner or general manager to recognize an athlete should retire instead of encouraging them to keep playing by throwing money at them?

Like Barry Bonds. Or Vince Young.

Although I’ll mention that knowing it’s time to retire, and actually retiring are two different things that often are unrelated.

LeBron is less than 13 months older than Aaron Rodgers.

Most just retire after they get an injury that prevents them from playing again.

The unsigned free agent route seems common in the NHL, or body damage so bad they never get off IR list.

If someone offers you millions of dollars to play, it’s hard to say no.

Some become Nort Spews reporters…

That’s kind of sad, Tank. Actually the sentence, “He’s out of football” is very sad, indeed.

Quarterbacks seem to not know when to retire.

Yay, Tank! Tell it like it is.

When they name a disease after you it’s time to hang it up, even if it ends your streak of 2,130 consecutive starts.

The really smart ones know their body has already received more damage than it should and quit before becoming even more damaged.

The legendary George Brett had a pretty good last season but he decided he had nothing left in the tank.

“knows”? Maybe he’s an athlete and doesn’t know proper grammar.

Darned few athletes seem to know what it’s time to go.Look at Tyson and Muhammad ALi. I don’’t think there’s been a guy who quit on t op since Rocky Marciano