CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Imagine finishing a 14-year career as an NFL quarterback and being offered the chance to coach quarterback Peyton Manning. Never mind you have no coaching experience. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to stay in a game you've loved since you were a little kid.
The Indianapolis Colts offered Frank Reich that opportunity in 1998.
Reich instead chose a different path: the seminary.
"He said, 'Gee, thank you. I'm honored,''' recalled then-Colts president Bill Polian, who knew Reich from their time together with the Buffalo Bills and Carolina Panthers.