Sunday, August 30, 2009

Bruschi To Retire Monday

((HT: CBSSports))

Tedy Bruschi is retiring after a 13-year career marked by an inspiring return to the New England Patriots as a starting linebacker eight months after a stroke.

A person familiar with his decision tells the Associated Press that the 36-year-old Bruschi will announce his retirement at a news conference Monday morning. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because no announcement had been made. The team declined comment Sunday night.

Bruschi played on all three Super Bowl-winning Patriots teams. The last championship game was on Feb. 6, 2005, against the Philadelphia Eagles. Ten days later he was hospitalized after experiencing numbness in his left arm and left leg and blurry vision and was diagnosed with a mild stroke.

Mike Reiss of the Boston Globe has an "important player announcement" occurring at 10:45

Here's a piece that ran on ESPN about how Bruschi threw himself in the film room to make sure he was always at the right place at the right time...

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