This was exactly my take. I've just recently made a huge decision in my life. It took ages because I went over every possibility and was agonizing. Then one day it was clear. I think my subconscious made up its mind and decided to tell me. A decision of this magnitude is incredibly hard. He is giving up not only what…

If you have to ask you must not be Black.

I want this hanging on my wall.

One of my favorite parts was from the 2nd track 'For Free (Interlude)'. The rap is shown as his reply to a complaining girlfriend, who is basically a metaphor for the US. You should've seen my face when I got to this part.

This. I teach college, and at my previous institution - an SEC school - I once had an offensive lineman confide that he couldn't remember the last time he played a game where his head wasn't "floatin" afterwards. But he shrugged and said football was the only reason why he was here and got out of his poor-ass Southern…

Fuck the team. Seriously, fuck the team, he owes them less than nothing.

Just out of curiosity, how well do you know the guy? Like, on a personal first-name basis?

Do you even know for a fact that the 49ers didn't know this was a possibility? I mean, he probably didn't for similar reasons he didn't tell them about the concussion: you don't want to show weakness if you might be coming back next year. But...do you KNOW that he didn't tell the team the thought at crossed his mind?

Worilds, Willis, and Locker were all young retirements from players who still had something left in the tank, but none of them said their retirements were related to head trauma at all.

It's a decision about what he is going to do for the rest of his life. I can't begrudge him for taking the time and waiting until he's 100 percent sure that this is what he wants to do. And anyway, how do you think Niner brass would take it if Borland called them a few weeks ago and said "uh, I'm thinking about…

Hey dog, maybe read the damn article before dropping haut taeks.

I wonder if we'll look back at Borland as the first domino to fall. Has there been a player to retire this early specifically due to CTE concerns? Worilds seemed to be health-related but not brain-related and who knows about Willis at this point? I could totally see a not-insignificant trend with this sort of thing.

Sacrificing money for his long term health.

Yea! How dare he be concerned about his own health!

this is a really heartwarming example of how much coach Pitino cares about his players and the way he kept... wait, did you say Georgia State? oh.

Nope. Sorry. You're in the minority, and America hates Duke. Don't worry, though. I'm sure your Dad has you a good job lined up where you won't have to hear all that backtalk from the little people.

Laettner turned on a whole new generation of America on hating Duke.

As a Michigan State alum, and perhaps an even more avid U of M hater, I 100000000000% approve of the Fab Five's bashing of this fuckboy.

The closer you get to retirement, the less money you should have in stocks.

man, if it is going to crash I want it to crash now-ish while i am young so i can pump more money into it and see it grow a bajillion times more when im older. dont crash right when im about to retire...you dick...