Published 5/6/2008
at The Blue Screen - NY Daily News Blogs
Stop the presses! Michael Strahan is still undecided about his future.
Today, for the seventh or eighth time since the Super Bowl ended - I’m sorry, I’ve lost count - Strahan said that he hasn’t made up his mind whether he wants to retire or play again in 2008. The latest non-declaration-of-intent came this morning on Fox & Friends (which used to be Tiki Barber’s show, but now he’s on another network).
Over the last week or so, in similar interviews, Strahan has been hinting two things, for those of you who like to read between the lines: That he’s close to making a decision, and that he’s closer to retiring than he is to returning. That said, don’t try and read between Strahan’s lines. His friends say he appears to change his mind from conversation to conversation. They don’t read anything into what he says, so you shouldn’t either.
There are two things about the Strahan situation that everybody believes to be true, though:
He will not be going to training camp. Even members of the ...
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