[teejers1]

Not sad at all. 2021 bought him a place in Cooperstown. Maybe not first ballot but second or third. He joins only a few other greats in retiring when the time was right. Elway for one. Charlie O'Connell, but he came back about five times. Bill Russell.

Other guys hanging on way too long. Mays chief among them. Plunkett.

Plunk won two Super Bowls with the Raiders late in his career.  How long after the last one did he retire?  And wasn't he a backup/injured a lot after the SB wins?  I don't know, I favor any athlete sticking around as long as they love/want to play and a team will pay him to do it.  And I say that even though I agree some athletes appear to me to hang on too long.

[teejers1]

Not sad at all. 2021 bought him a place in Cooperstown. Maybe not first ballot but second or third. He joins only a few other greats in retiring when the time was right. Elway for one. Charlie O'Connell, but he came back about five times. Bill Russell.

Other guys hanging on way too long. Mays chief among them. Plunkett.

Plunk won two Super Bowls with the Raiders late in his career.  How long after the last one did he retire?  And wasn't he a backup/injured a lot after the SB wins?  I don't know, I favor any athlete sticking around as long as they love/want to play and a team will pay him to do it.  And I say that even though I agree some athletes appear to me to hang on too long.