Philip Rivers is officially done with the NFL after announcing his retirement from football for a second time.
The 44-year-old quarterback, who first retired back in 2020, was sensationally brought back to the NFL earlier this month as the Indianapolis Colts scrambled for an emergency signal caller.
Yet after going 0-3 in his three starts, and with rookie Riley Leonard set to replace him for the final game of the regular season against the Houston Texans this weekend, Rivers is now calling it a career for good.
During an appearance on the ‘Up & Adams’ show, the football veteran was urged by sportscaster Kay Adams to not retire on the basis that he can ‘still chuck it’.
But Rivers responded: ‘Hell no, I am [done].’
Adams then asked when he knew he was done, to which he replied: ‘I knew I was done in 2020.’
Philip Rivers is officially done with the NFL after announcing his retirement for a second time
She argued: ‘But hold on, you weren’t [done in 2020] so I don’t know if I should believe you now!’
‘This was just… everything just lined up right,’ Rivers said about coming out of retirement with the Colts. ‘If I just made up a team, I don’t mean the Chicago Bears or the Minnesota Vikings, but had someone like that called there was no chance.
‘[Indianapolis] was a place I’d been, a team I was familiar with, the offense was exactly the same, the coach I knew… all those things just made it the perfect storm.
‘I don’t see it being there. My mum asked me the same question. She was like, “So if someone wanted you to play next year would you consider it?” And I was like, “No way.”‘
