Brian Urlacher Retires

BIGGIEsmalls 23 · Post #1 » by **BIGGIEsmalls 23** » Wed May 22, 2013 1:24 pm

NFL.com reports: Brian Urlacher isn't close to finding a new home in the NFL if he's expecting that destination to be Minnesota.

Coach Leslie Frazier told the NFL Network on Wednesday that the Vikings aren't near a deal with Urlacher, as was reported over the weekend, and prefer to take a long look at the options on the current roster before considering other alternatives.

I wonder if he will be even picked up by a team this season. I think that he made a huge mistake by not accepting the Bears offer. He should have accepted it & used this season as his swan song. Therefore, retiring gracefully at the end of next season.

League Circles · Post #2 » by **League Circles** » Wed May 22, 2013 3:19 pm

Is there any chance in hell that he will come back to the Bears at the offer they made? I'd like to see him back at a reasonable rate still, and stranger things have happened. It does indeed look like he's going to be without a job, or at least without a starting job, unless it's in chicago.

League Circles · Post #3 » by **League Circles** » Wed May 22, 2013 3:21 pm

He just announced his retirement per The Herd on ESPN radio.

shugknight · Post #4 » by **shugknight** » Wed May 22, 2013 3:23 pm

Karma bites Urlacher in the butt. He played great for us and I won't take that away from him, but the last few years and him bickering about the city and the fans, I've had enough of him.

Sucks he went out this way, but that's what happens when you badmouth your fan base when on a decline.

WEFFPIM · Post #5 » by **WEFFPIM** » Wed May 22, 2013 3:30 pm

Left on questionable terms, seemed to kick and scream his way out the door. But he's the best Bear I've seen in my lifetime, and a surefire Hall of Famer.

JDRochholz · Post #6 » by **JDRochholz** » Wed May 22, 2013 3:41 pm

Congrats to Brian. I'm gonna miss him

BIGGIEsmalls 23 · Post #7 » by **BIGGIEsmalls 23** » Wed May 22, 2013 3:51 pm

BIGGIEsmalls 23 wrote:
NFL.com reports: Brian Urlacher isn't close to finding a new home in the NFL if he's expecting that destination to be Minnesota.

Coach Leslie Frazier told the NFL Network on Wednesday that the Vikings aren't near a deal with Urlacher, as was reported over the weekend, and prefer to take a long look at the options on the current roster before considering other alternatives.

I wonder if he will be even picked up by a team this season. I think that he made a huge mistake by not accepting the Bears offer. He should have accepted it & used this season as his swan song. Therefore, retiring gracefully at the end of next season.

Wow. I basically called it a couple hours before it happened. I wasn't trying to at all.

That being said.............

Thank you for all the memories that you provided for myself & other Chicago Bears fans.

#54

blumeany · Post #8 » by **blumeany** » Wed May 22, 2013 4:07 pm

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/fo ... 9970.story

Glad that he decided to hang it up. Would rather think of him only as a Chicago Bear and not as a broken down Viking.

Kudos to all he did in a Bear uniform. While I didn't like his attitude at times, he was a mainstay of this team and one of our sole stars for the longest time.

Air Poohdini · Post #9 » by **Air Poohdini** » Wed May 22, 2013 4:12 pm

Good bye, Brian.

Hangtime84 · Post #10 » by **Hangtime84** » Wed May 22, 2013 5:56 pm

Post #11 » by **Jake0890** » Wed May 22, 2013 6:51 pm

It sucks that he couldn't get a job elsewhere. It seemed before his injury in the last game of the season he had a lot left in the tank.

Post #12 » by **emperorjones** » Thu May 23, 2013 12:16 am

Well, at least we got that win vs the Vikings.

Thanks Lovie.

Post #13 » by **emperorjones** » Thu May 23, 2013 12:19 am

BIGGIEsmalls 23 wrote:
BIGGIEsmalls 23 wrote:
NFL.com reports: Brian Urlacher isn't close to finding a new home in the NFL if he's expecting that destination to be Minnesota.

Coach Leslie Frazier told the NFL Network on Wednesday that the Vikings aren't near a deal with Urlacher, as was reported over the weekend, and prefer to take a long look at the options on the current roster before considering other alternatives.

I wonder if he will be even picked up by a team this season. I think that he made a huge mistake by not accepting the Bears offer. He should have accepted it & used this season as his swan song. Therefore, retiring gracefully at the end of next season.

Wow. I basically called it a couple hours before it happened. I wasn't trying to at all.

That being said.............

Thank you for all the memories that you provided for myself & other Chicago Bears fans.

#54

Biggies back, so my hiatus is over

BIGGIEsmalls 23 · Post #14 » by **BIGGIEsmalls 23** » Thu May 23, 2013 4:32 am

emperorjones wrote:Well, at least we got that win vs the Vikings.

Thanks Lovie.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M[/youtube]

jl342323 · Post #15 » by **jl342323** » Thu May 23, 2013 5:38 am

see you in the hall of fame in 2018, brian.

what a great career he had in chicago. i remember him dominating fat ass donte culpepper like it was yesterday. lol.

BIGGIEsmalls 23 · Post #16 » by **BIGGIEsmalls 23** » Thu May 23, 2013 2:11 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGB9Lhodaz8[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6FBt4N1vac[/youtube]

:clap:

heir_jordan22 · Post #17 » by **heir_jordan22** » Sat May 25, 2013 12:49 am

We'll miss you Brian! Thanks for so many years of excelence.

That Vikings game man... We lose Urlacher and moved from 13 to 19 in the draft.

BIGGIEsmalls 23 · Post #18 » by **BIGGIEsmalls 23** » Sat May 25, 2013 6:49 pm

Urlacher Would Consider Career In TV

Brian Urlacher could find employment as a television analyst now that he is retired from the NFL.

"I don’t know how good I’d be at that," Urlacher told the Tribune. "It would take a lot of work to get me ready for it. But that might be something I look into."

Urlacher was a regular paid guest on Fox Chicago’s "The Final Word" with host Lou Canellis the past three seasons.

Ray Lewis immediately found work with ESPN upon retirement, but nobody has reached out to Urlchaer yet.

http://football.realgm.com/src_wiretap_ ... eer_in_tv/

I loved Urlacher as a player, but he's less than average as a speaker. His commercials are boring & barely audible, IMHO.

He's a better speaker than Hester, but there's no way that I feel he could be entertaining as a TV analyst.

Post #19 » by **fleet** » Sat May 25, 2013 8:44 pm

it was tough to blindly trust a brand new coaching staff and Emery to handle this sight unseen. Yet the Bears apparently handled this perfectly. They offered to overpay the guy. Can't ask anything else from the Bears in this situation.

And the analyst stuff...
I agree with Biggie, I don't see it. IMO, unless he becomes more controversial, he has a boring media personality.

heir_jordan22 · Post #20 » by **heir_jordan22** » Sun May 26, 2013 6:06 pm

fleet wrote:it was tough to blindly trust a brand new coaching staff and Emery to handle this sight unseen. Yet the Bears apparently handled this perfectly. They offered to overpay the guy. Can't ask anything else from the Bears in this situation.

And the analyst stuff...
I agree with Biggie, I don't see it. IMO, unless he becomes more controversial, he has a boring media personality.

He did say he has respect for everyone in the building except for one guy.

http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/bears/p ... k-urlacher

"Ninety-nine percent of the people in that building (Halas Hall) I respect, I have the utmost respect for. There's one person I could really take or leave."