...43 and five years removed from throwing his last NFL pass, after the game to see if he might be interested in making a comeback.
"I talked to Kurt last night," he said, adding of Warner's wife, "Brenda's not going to let him play."
Not so fast. Warner said his wife gave him her blessings when he texted her about the idea Thursday night.
"I said, 'What do you think if I went back?,' " Warner said, "and she goes, 'Yes, go ahead.' I'm sure it was more out of, 'Yeah, right. You're stupid. You're never going back, so I'll just say that.'
"But again, you see the one side of it and you go, 'Man, this could be awesome.' And it would be great to go back and help. This team's in great shape. So you understand that part of it and it sounds like, 'Wow, this is great.' But then somebody's got to be realistic. There's not too many people being realistic and I've had to be the one that kind of says, 'Dude, snap out of it. This is ridiculous for me to think this.' "
It's far-fetched, but how cool would it be if Warner were to actually author another improbable feel-good story?
"My boys, they would eat this up," Warner said. "They're huge football fans now, and they got to see the tail end of things, but they would jump up and down at the opportunity for me to go back and play and kind of be a part of it.
"But like I said, none of them are being realistic. If I actually asked Brenda and said, 'I'm going to go throw the football,' she'd be like, 'Oh, hold on. Baby, just relax. Who do you think you are?' She'd get me to pause and bring some sense back into me if I actually went that far."
So, you're saying there's not a chance at all, Kurt?
"As fun as it sounds and as neat of a story as it could be, yeah," he said. "I have to be the one that understands really what this would entail and to be realistic that there's no way I can do it."
