I don't have anything really new to add to the conversation, but I had dinner with Mike last week here in Hawai'i. Red was actually here also with his family too - staying with Mike at his beach house. Pretty ironic how they were both here, together, when that media piece came out about Red possibly being cut to resign Mike, his Texas A&M buddy. Red's wife said it's unfortunate, but it is what it is. Red was actually released a few days later after they had returned to Seattle.
But anyways, I was over for dinner with a few others because we're lending a hand with Mike's nonprofit camp here. My son went to his football clinic last year and when he was signed by our Hawks, I made sure to let him know I'd help in any capacity. He ended up getting my boy and I tickets to the Dec 22 Cardinals game and family passes. Made my son's Christmas for sure - his first Hawks game. But in working with his logo design, I had some "action green" in there. Both he and his wife really liked it but he did say, we may have to use a different color "just in case I'm not with this team." Since the evening was about planning for his camp, I didn't want to add football into the mix. It's nothing that we all haven't heard already. It certainly seemed like life as usual was carrying on as soon as they got back to Seattle and he'll be in camp and yada yada yada. But maybe it's just NFL life to be here and gone tomorrow? Who knows. His "just in case I'm not with this team" seemed to roll off his tongue so carelessly it made me think that he expects to be back, barring some major disagreement.
What does this all mean? Nothing really =). But it makes for a good story. Please don't take my "opinion" too seriously or how I read into such a simple statement - I'm obviously biased and want him to retire a Hawk so badly that I'd probably look for the silver lining in the way he ate his salmon.