psych!
So much for the story that Junior Seau would retire as a Charger. Boltstalk said, “The good news: he will be signing a one day contract with the Chargers and will retire as a Charger. No date has been set for that. Given Junior’s honesty, I’m guessing it’ll be sooner rather than later.” Ooops.
Looks like Junior will be signing a contract but it’s a one-year $1M contract with the Patriots who need some help at the linebacker position with Tedy Bruschi hampered by wrist surgery.
Of course, Seau did say in his retirement press conference that he wasn’t retiring (“So please, understand when I say this.I’m not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you’ll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside.It ain’t going to happen.”) so perhaps he meant graduating from the Dolphins to the Patriots. Either way, this is the fastest turnaround since Dan Marino decided he didn’t want the Dolphins VP of football operations job after three weeks.
Everyone who wrote the puff pieces on how great of a player Seau was can just save them and dust them off when he retires again next year.
Links:
[SI]: Belichick, Pats convince Seau to play one more year
