Derrick Brooks Makes It Official

Derrick Brooks will officially announce his retirement today on his web site, Derrickbrooks.tv (Really? Derrickbrooks.tv? Evidently, Derrickbrooks.com is available for the reasonable price of $450) and will hold a press conference at One Buc Place tomorrow at 1:30. Oh… the video is already on his web site. In it, he thanks his head coaches and former teammates. He singles out Warren Sapp, John Lynch, Ronde Barber and Simeon Rice for personal thanks. Then he goes on to thank the ownership and his family. Not a lot of extra information there. He’ll probably open up more tomorrow at the press conference. We all were pretty sure he wasn’t going to get a crack with another team, and I think that’s just as well. I really didn’t want to see him in another uniform and it would have sucked if he hadn’t done well and then limped out of the league in another team’s colors like Paul Hornung or Johnny Unitas or Joe Namath. He’s up there with...