The ink hasn’t dried yet on the Calvin Johnson retirement papers, but some are already talking a comeback?
That ‘some’ though is actually just Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones who today told ESPN First Take (via the SportingNews) that he believes Megatron will make his return to the NFL in ‘six months’.
“I think he’ll come back. I think he won’t even take a year if you ask me,” Jones said on ESPN First Take shortly after the decision was announced. “I say six months and he’s back.”
“He’s never had the game taken away from him,” Jones said. “He’ll understand after that first year, sitting at home, you can do anything you want but it’s different when you’re not running out of that tunnel and enjoying that competition.”
I’m sure many Lions fans are hoping Pacman is right and somehow, someway Calvin Johnson makes his return.
However for Calvin Johnson, football seemed like it was a just a job which isn’t bad thing.
To Barry Sanders football was just a job. It wasn’t about records or stats a parallel that can be drawn directly with Calvin Johnson who ironically is also considered one of the greatest Lions offensive players in team history.
Calvin Johnson is a guy and now a former player who has a life beyond the NFL and he knows it. Megatron also knows that he had plenty of left to give to the NFL unlike guys who hang on to long.
But for Johnson it simply wasn’t worth it. It wasn’t worth it for him to spend the rest of his life with chronic injury. In essence he’s still a young guy with plenty of life left to live.
So, Pacman, Lions fans hoping for a Megatron return sometime down the road. Don’t hold your breath.