Laurence Holmes
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And I get it.
They've got too many retired numbers.
So some numbers have to stay.
But even seeing Grady Jarrett with a 50, I'm like, okay, at least that's a guy who has an NFL resume as he walks into the door.
Not just random draft guy guy, even if he is a first-rounder from Chicken Dinner Road.
Who was the former Tampa Bay defensive end who ended up passing away?
Gaines Adams.
Gaines Adams.
2009, Gaines Adams, briefly a bear.
They gave him 99.
Yeah.
They gave Travis Gibson 99.
Hell, Javon Dexter's wearing it now.
They just have too many numbers?
They have too many retired numbers.
And then there are some that are not quite retired, like 54.
You can't get that, but it's not retired.
But they've got so many retired numbers that you've got to go into triple digits, and they don't allow that yet.
All right.
Sorry, it's sidebar.