Maybe I'm old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract.

I've been pretty fortunate.

In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.

Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it's a lesser player, but it's all based on what a team has as far as value in that person.

There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can't do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that's not going to change.

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

There wasn't a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.