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Channing Crowder, for some reason, has retired
By MJD
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Released just days ago by the Miami Dolphins, linebacker Channing Crowder(notes) announced that he's retiring from professional football.
Crowder is 27 years old, and was, as far as I could tell, a pretty capable linebacker. A little on the crazy side, maybe, but not in a way that ever kept anyone from busting heads on the football field. No one gives you a history quiz on Anne Frank before you sack a quarterback. No one needs an assurance that you won't fight an old man and his father.
His crazy has taken a different form this time, though. He's just walking away from the game. From NBC Miami:
He was slated to make $2.5 million with the Dolphins in 2011 before being let go.
It is unusual, though. Just a few days ago, Crowder took a physical with the Patriots. If he didn't want to play football, I don't know why he'd go up to Foxborough and let himself be poked and prodded by the Pats team doctors. Maybe there's something else at play here. Certainly, some team out there could use him.
During his six seasons with Miami, Crowder racked up 469 tackles (343 solo).
Despite being drafted in just 2005, he says he's done, and since he isn't Brett Favre(notes), I see no reason to doubt him. Enjoy retirement, Channing.
If you're ever feeling nostalgic for some Crowder crazy, the Palm Beach Post put together this list of the greatest all-time Channing Crowder quotes. He walks away from the game as an underrated quote machine.
Miami Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder, who was released Friday, was the club's most quotable player during his six seasons with the team.
WAR OF WORDS WITH JETS COACH REX RYAN
Crowder had called the New York Jets the off-season Super Bowl winners because of Ryan's bold predictions during summer 2009.
Ryan's response:
"I don't know this Channing Crowder. All I know is that he's all tatted up, so I guess I ought to be nervous about him. The other thing is I think he's wrong because I do think you win in June. I think you win with your preparation and all that kind of stuff. If I was younger, I'd probably handle him myself."
Crowder:
"Oh, Lord have mercy. What's wrong with him? Now he's talking about preparation? We play them twice this year. If he wants to be prepared, shouldn't he know the starting middle linebackers of his division rival?
"He says he'd take care of me if he was younger? I'd have beat the hell out of that big old joker. Or if he really wants to get retro, my daddy or my uncle could have handled him.
"Let's see if he can top this one. I've walked over tougher guys going to a fight. He can send himself and his father after me."
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE FROM CROWDER
On the NFL crackdown on helmet-to-helmet hits: "If they're going to keep making us go more and more and more like a feminine sport, we're going to wear pink every game, not just on the breast cancer months. If I get a chance to knock somebody out, I'm going to knock them out and take what they give me. They give me a helmet, I'm going to use it."
On the Dolphins' scheme: "The defensive playbook is the size of a phone book, and we didn't even get through the As."
A geography lesson, before the Dolphins played in London: "I couldn't find London on a map if they didn't have the names of the countries. I know Italy looks like a boot; I learned that. I know London Fletcher."
After a loss to the Ravens and running back Le'Ron McClain in 2010: "Y'all can write it down -- the (expletive) punk Le'Ron McClain spit in my face. Keep writing. He spit in my face, and that's why I got mad."
From the same rant, claiming that sight-challenged officials missed illegal hits on Chad Henne: "Stevie Wonder and Anne Frank. Who's the blind girl? Helen Keller, then. I don't know who Anne Frank is. I'm mad right now. I'm not as swift as I usually am."
On his father, Randy, a former Dolphin who was caught selling cocaine to undercover police in 1977: "The only thing I learned from him was about messing up, so I'll try to be a better father than he was."
On the off-the-field Channing: "People always expect me to be some sort of monster. I might be a little crazy, but I wouldn't say I'm a monster."
Implying that he might have sold his jerseys while at the University of Florida: "I'll say hypothetically I don't have any more of my Florida jerseys. There were some Jacksonville businessmen that really hypothetically liked my play."
On Jets RB Leon Washington, a former Seminole: "We do not like each other. With Florida State, I hated him. I hate him now. If I see him out, I'm not going to talk to him. I'm not going to slap him, but I'm not going to be pleasant. Every time he sees me, he starts cussing. I see him and I start cussing. It's going to be like that the whole game."
On Jets QB Mark Sanchez: "Sanchez is probably the only person I haven't cussed out, because he's a rookie. He'll get cussed out this week."
On the Gators' offense with John Brantley succeeding Tim Tebow and losing to Mississippi State: "They don't have an identity. They don't know what - John Brantley don't know what he wants to do. He can't outrun anybody. I saw him get run down by a white linebacker last week, which was a disgrace to all Florida football history."
By MJD
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Released just days ago by the Miami Dolphins, linebacker Channing Crowder(notes) announced that he's retiring from professional football.
Crowder is 27 years old, and was, as far as I could tell, a pretty capable linebacker. A little on the crazy side, maybe, but not in a way that ever kept anyone from busting heads on the football field. No one gives you a history quiz on Anne Frank before you sack a quarterback. No one needs an assurance that you won't fight an old man and his father.
His crazy has taken a different form this time, though. He's just walking away from the game. From NBC Miami:
"I had opportunities," Crowder told WQAM host Sid Rosenberg. "When I started thinking about retiring and it became an option, that's when I knew I should do it." [...]
"I'm retiring. I'm staying at home," he said on-air. "I'm going to keep playing in Miami but I'm not putting a helmet on."
Okie dokie then. Crowder says he doesn't need money and has saved "most of his money," and if he'd rather quit football and spend time with his family than play for anyone but the Dolphins, then why not?"I'm retiring. I'm staying at home," he said on-air. "I'm going to keep playing in Miami but I'm not putting a helmet on."
He was slated to make $2.5 million with the Dolphins in 2011 before being let go.
It is unusual, though. Just a few days ago, Crowder took a physical with the Patriots. If he didn't want to play football, I don't know why he'd go up to Foxborough and let himself be poked and prodded by the Pats team doctors. Maybe there's something else at play here. Certainly, some team out there could use him.
During his six seasons with Miami, Crowder racked up 469 tackles (343 solo).
Despite being drafted in just 2005, he says he's done, and since he isn't Brett Favre(notes), I see no reason to doubt him. Enjoy retirement, Channing.
If you're ever feeling nostalgic for some Crowder crazy, the Palm Beach Post put together this list of the greatest all-time Channing Crowder quotes. He walks away from the game as an underrated quote machine.
Miami Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder, who was released Friday, was the club's most quotable player during his six seasons with the team.
WAR OF WORDS WITH JETS COACH REX RYAN
Crowder had called the New York Jets the off-season Super Bowl winners because of Ryan's bold predictions during summer 2009.
Ryan's response:
"I don't know this Channing Crowder. All I know is that he's all tatted up, so I guess I ought to be nervous about him. The other thing is I think he's wrong because I do think you win in June. I think you win with your preparation and all that kind of stuff. If I was younger, I'd probably handle him myself."
Crowder:
"Oh, Lord have mercy. What's wrong with him? Now he's talking about preparation? We play them twice this year. If he wants to be prepared, shouldn't he know the starting middle linebackers of his division rival?
"He says he'd take care of me if he was younger? I'd have beat the hell out of that big old joker. Or if he really wants to get retro, my daddy or my uncle could have handled him.
"Let's see if he can top this one. I've walked over tougher guys going to a fight. He can send himself and his father after me."
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE FROM CROWDER
On the NFL crackdown on helmet-to-helmet hits: "If they're going to keep making us go more and more and more like a feminine sport, we're going to wear pink every game, not just on the breast cancer months. If I get a chance to knock somebody out, I'm going to knock them out and take what they give me. They give me a helmet, I'm going to use it."
On the Dolphins' scheme: "The defensive playbook is the size of a phone book, and we didn't even get through the As."
A geography lesson, before the Dolphins played in London: "I couldn't find London on a map if they didn't have the names of the countries. I know Italy looks like a boot; I learned that. I know London Fletcher."
After a loss to the Ravens and running back Le'Ron McClain in 2010: "Y'all can write it down -- the (expletive) punk Le'Ron McClain spit in my face. Keep writing. He spit in my face, and that's why I got mad."
From the same rant, claiming that sight-challenged officials missed illegal hits on Chad Henne: "Stevie Wonder and Anne Frank. Who's the blind girl? Helen Keller, then. I don't know who Anne Frank is. I'm mad right now. I'm not as swift as I usually am."
On his father, Randy, a former Dolphin who was caught selling cocaine to undercover police in 1977: "The only thing I learned from him was about messing up, so I'll try to be a better father than he was."
On the off-the-field Channing: "People always expect me to be some sort of monster. I might be a little crazy, but I wouldn't say I'm a monster."
Implying that he might have sold his jerseys while at the University of Florida: "I'll say hypothetically I don't have any more of my Florida jerseys. There were some Jacksonville businessmen that really hypothetically liked my play."
On Jets RB Leon Washington, a former Seminole: "We do not like each other. With Florida State, I hated him. I hate him now. If I see him out, I'm not going to talk to him. I'm not going to slap him, but I'm not going to be pleasant. Every time he sees me, he starts cussing. I see him and I start cussing. It's going to be like that the whole game."
On Jets QB Mark Sanchez: "Sanchez is probably the only person I haven't cussed out, because he's a rookie. He'll get cussed out this week."
On the Gators' offense with John Brantley succeeding Tim Tebow and losing to Mississippi State: "They don't have an identity. They don't know what - John Brantley don't know what he wants to do. He can't outrun anybody. I saw him get run down by a white linebacker last week, which was a disgrace to all Florida football history."
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