Packers WR Donald Driver Announces Retirement

FrostyCow · Joined: 23 Sep 2008 Posts: 556

Donald Driver had a lot of productive years, but has dropped off recently. It is probably the right time for him to hang them up. While not a NFL HOF player, he deserves to go to the hall of the very good.

MaddHatter · Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 41476 Location: Dallas, TX

Congrats on a great career to a great guy - Best wishes
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MNPackfan32 · Joined: 22 Sep 2010 Posts: 5579

Glad to see him call it quits as a Packer. One of the all time fan favorites because of how he made it and how he worked. The guy just wanted to play football, not many guys his age would openly sign up to play special teams.
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justo · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 2:53 pm Post subject:

Rumors were that the Vikes were interested. Wouldn't have thought less of him if he played in purple for a year or two. Great career by quicky.
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TheKillerNacho · Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 7409 Location: New Jersey

Great career & classy guy, he will be missed. Good luck to him in whatever he does in the future.
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PackerPride · Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 395

I will never forget you Donald. There was a game we were being completely blown off the field. Donald was still playing hard. Landed on his neck trying to make a play. While being stretchered off he smiled, my emotions went from pure dread and sadness to uplifted because of a smile from an athlete through a television screen. If you can smile while getting smoked and injured you should be able to in 99.9% of your time on earth. Thanks for everything DD.

Setzel · Joined: 23 Jan 2011 Posts: 19

He along smitty will be the ones i will regret' , the joy and pure emotions when they played football where infectious .

Good he won a SB ring , because i dont think he will ever be a HOF .

phillipraz · Joined: 27 Oct 2007 Posts: 2608 Location: Phoenix, AZ

Thank you Don
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1BackInBlackFan · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 6:40 pm Post subject:

A solid player who represented Green Bay and their fans in a very positive way.

Best of luck to him in his future endeavors.
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Malik · Joined: 18 Dec 2011 Posts: 2836

One of the best 7th round draft picks of all time.

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Ketchup · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 12:49 am Post subject:

Honestly, my feelings when i heard this was about time. The guy hasn't been a major contributor these past 2 seasons and hit an age wall HARD this past season. I came to terms some time ago that the Driver i came to know and love as a player was long gone.

With that said, i can't even begin to stress how much I'll miss Driver the person on this football team. Was always a leader by example for the younger guys and just wanted to play the game he loves in any way to help the team and an example is him asking the Coaches to play ST's late this season. One of the best "Packer People" that has come through this historic football team. He will be missed.
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