Bruschi ready to tackle another season - N.E. Patriots - BostonHerald.com
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Tedy Bruschi doesn’t know where all the retirement talk came from. He got calls from several teammates, including Rodney Harrison [stats], wondering what he was going to do. He’d get stopped on the street. Fans would ask.
Bruschi told them all to relax. He said even though he turns 34 in June, with 11 NFL seasons under his belt and having survived a stroke in 2005, the thought of hanging up his pads never really entered his mind.
Last night, the linebacker indicated he was looking forward to tackling another year at the heart of the Patriots [team stats] defense.
“I never alluded to it. I never told anyone that I was thinking about retiring,” Bruschi said at the InterContinental Hotel in Boston, prior to being honored by the Make-A-Wish Foundation. “I feel great. I’m ready to play. I’m more hungry now than I’ve ever been. I want to win another championship.”