Andrew luck is retiring from NFL

[RamFan503]

I will say that it would suck as a Ponies fan. But I tend to side with Luck here even though I never really was a fan.

I'm guessing the timing is due to his not really knowing until he went through some actual playing time. If he felt like he just couldn't do it anymore, what benefit do you have with tying up a roster spot at the cut down period? Wouldn't it have been worse after the cut down if they released someone they would have rather kept on their 53?

Unless he and Ursay (sp?) have some really bad blood, I don't think Luck did this to spite the miniature donkeys or their jockeys.

Buck up l'il filly fans. You're not the first to have a #1 draft pick not work out.

 

[oldnotdead]

Indy fans proved their the worst and the most fair weather fans in the NFL. Booing a guy who was injured playing for them? He was probably going on IR anyway. What he did was give Jacobi clear shot at the season, no ifs and or buts. The Colts didn't ask for the money because he would have unretired and gone on IR and they would have paid him more. So he saved the team money.

I wish him well and know he will be very happy in broadcasting on the NFL network. Which means he will be in Inglewood and moving back to Calif. Andrew is a class act and a very good man. He's not a John Elway type jerkoff who was the most arrogant ahole I've ever had the misfortune to meet.

 

[XXXIVwin]

Mixed feelings on this one.

On the one hand, I can totally appreciate and respect Luck’s desire to have a quasi-functional body for the rest of his life, and to retire if he thinks it’s best for his health.

OTOH, his timing stinks. Two weeks before the season starts? Colts fans sure are pissed. Here’s a case in point, from a Colts message board:

“I boo'd his ass, boo'd loud and was right friggin' behind him- trust me he could hear it. I called him a coward- I yelled wondering how those guys on the sidelines could stand to even stand next to him.

I took his jersey off and threw it out the window on the way home.

Yeah that's right, i am THAT guy. You know why, because I am a Colts fan and this guy just took a gigantic dump on the team I love, he just crapped down the throats of 52 guys that all have one common goal for February, who go out there every day in 95 degree heat and give their all for that goal, guys that have each other's backs and would potentially die on the field in support of their brothers. And then there is Andy who is "tired".

Fuck you Andy, fuck you hard, and get the fuck off our stadium, get the fuck off our promos, get the fuck out of our city. You aren't even a traitor, you are a quitter- fuck quitters, and fuck you.”

 

[Mojo Ram]

I don't have much sympathy at all for angry booing fans etc, but i still can't excuse Luck waiting until August to do this.

 

[oldnotdead]

Luck had no control over the timing of his injuries. Of course, he put it off as long as he could....not to sabotage anyone but to try to get through it. I've been hurt like that and understand how it gets to the point that you have to leave the life you love behind. It isn't an easy decision. If he pulled the plug earlier people would have said he was a quitter for not trying to tough it out. What a croc!! Only people who don't know what pain is say crap like that. I was an avid hiker, backpacker, woodsman, survivalist my whole life. From the time I was 8 and my father got me started on my first backpack and I was hooked.

Then the war came to my life and all that went away. The more I tried to hold on to it the more I injured myself in the attempt. I still live with the pain 24/7 365 all these years and I just have learned to live with it. But I know how much worse it could be. I just got the other part of my life back and did things there I never had envisioned before because it was never "necessary" to even think of it. It's called facing the reality of your life.

Damn, right I can relate to Andrew. There are a lot of things he can do, just not be a pro footballer. But he could coach or broadcast, or sit back and drink Modelo Negro and eat tacos all day while he watches other guys destroy their bodies. Props Andrew my brother, time to live that other part of your life to it's fullest. Ignore the noise, because they don't understand. Ignorance is their bliss.

The hypocrisy of it all. The NFL is a little more than a week away from ending the dream of hundreds of guys who have sweated and sacrificed in the quest of their life long dream. Does the NFL care? Hell no, it's just business, right? How much notice do you think they are going to give these guys? They are going to make them play a meaningless game, risking their health to do so, all the while these teams already know who is going to make it and who isn't. All for the sake of making more money. Give me a break. Andrew gave them more notice than they would have given him if it came down to it.

 

[Memento]

Luck had no control over the timing of his injuries. Of course, he put it off as long as he could....not to sabotage anyone but to try to get through it. I've been hurt like that and understand how it gets to the point that you have to leave the life you love behind. It isn't an easy decision. If he pulled the plug earlier people would have said he was a quitter for not trying to tough it out. What a croc!! Only people who don't know what pain is say crap like that. I was an avid hiker, backpacker, woodsman, survivalist my whole life. From the time I was 8 and my father got me started on my first backpack and I was hooked.

Then the war came to my life and all that went away. The more I tried to hold on to it the more I injured myself in the attempt. I still live with the pain 24/7 365 all these years and I just have learned to live with it. But I know how much worse it could be. I just got the other part of my life back and did things there I never had envisioned before because it was never "necessary" to even think of it. It's called facing the reality of your life.

Damn, right I can relate to Andrew. There are a lot of things he can do, just not be a pro footballer. But he could coach or broadcast, or sit back and drink Modelo Negro and eat tacos all day while he watches other guys destroy their bodies. Props Andrew my brother, time to live that other part of your life to it's fullest. Ignore the noise, because they don't understand. Ignorance is their bliss.

The hypocrisy of it all. The NFL is a little more than a week away from ending the dream of hundreds of guys who have sweated and sacrificed in the quest of their life long dream. Does the NFL care? Hell no, it's just business, right? How much notice do you think they are going to give these guys? They are going to make them play a meaningless game, risking their health to do so, all the while these teams already know who is going to make it and who isn't. All for the sake of making more money. Give me a break. Andrew gave them more notice than they would have given him if it came down to it.

Damn fucking straight. Preach it, my brother!