Darrelle Revis announced his retirement on Wednesday exactly seven years, 10 months and 12 days after ending one of the most significant contract holdouts in NFL history.
Depicted on HBO’s Hard Knocks in 2010, Revis’s unwillingness to play under a deal he’d already massively outperformed sent the Jets scrambling. Owners and coaches flew to meet him in Fort Lauderdale on a moment’s notice. The team’s general manager, Mike Tannenbaum, appeared beaten and exhausted almost every night from spinning his wheels in the mud. Secret rendezvous were planned at diners in central New York to Band-Aid the situation away from the press.