<span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:100%"><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></span></span>Strahan saga continues Michael Strahan has finally made a decision on what he plans to do in 2008. But before he tells us what it is, we’re all apparently going to have to keep playing “What’s up with Mike?” a little longer. The future Hall of Famer said tonight that he’s “pretty much” made up his mind whether to play in 2008 or to retire, but that he has no immediate plans to make an announcement, nor will he until he’s “100 percent sure.” How will he ever be 100 percent sure, you ask? “It’s just a feeling you get,” he said.</div> http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/giants/20...-continues.html
I still think he's a jerk, but he played great last season after he basically cost his teammates the first two games. His sideline speech to the O-Line after the Pats scored the go-ahead TD in the Super Bowl was as great a show of leadership as I've seen from anyone. The fact that they listened to a defensive player at all, never mind one that just came off the field after allowing a touchdown, says volumes about the respect the whole team has for him and each other. If he retires, he's done enough to be remembered as a great Giant - unlike some others who should have been remembered that way. He definitely needs the money, though, so we'll see.
http://www.sportstwo.com/NFL/Story/NFL/2409059 <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>With a Super Bowl ring on his finger and a place in the Hall of Fame all but secured, Michael Strahan called it quits following a record-setting career with the New York Giants. Strahan retired Monday morning, ending a 15-year career spent exclusively with the Giants. Strahan's retirement, initially reported by FOXSports.com, was confirmed by Giants head coach Tom Coughlin after a team workout. "I'm just finding out about it," Coughlin told reporters. "Let me get organized." Strahan, 36, flirted with retirement last summer before returning to the eventual Super Bowl champion Giants. The defensive end told FOXSports.com that he wanted to decide on his future prior to the beginning of Giants' mini-camp. "It was important that my teammates knew which way I was going before they got on the field to start the work to defend our title," said Strahan, the Giants' all-time leader in sacks. "It's time. I'm done." After spearheading a ferocious defense that helped upset the then-undefeated New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII, Strahan did not indicate this past February if he would return for his 16th season with the Giants. But just over four months later, Strahan has arrived at a final decision. "It's a tough decision," he told FOXSports.com. "But I wanted to be fair to the Giants and fair to my teammates." A four-time All Pro, Strahan appeared in 216 career games - all with the Giants. The future Hall of Famer ranks fifth all-time with 141 1/2 career sacks. Strahan admitted last summer that he was mulling retirement and missed nearly all of training camp before deciding to play. The seven-time Pro Bowler got off to a slow start before ultimately enjoying a successful regular season, recording nine sacks in 16 games. The ensuing postseason proved vindicating for the verbose Strahan, who came up short in his bid for a Super Bowl ring in his six previous playoff appearances. Strahan collected 22 tackles and two sacks - including one in the Super Bowl - during New York's improbable title run, silencing his numerous critics by capping his successful career with a long-awaited championship. A second-round draft selection in 1993, Strahan led the NFL in sacks twice (2001, 2003) and recorded double-digit sacks in six different seasons. He rewrote the NFL record book in 2001, when he collected a single-season record 22 1/2 sacks.</div> Nice to see him go out on top like that.
