This is an opinion piece.

I actually started to feel bad for asking St. Michael Catholic football coach and longtime NFL quarterback Philip Rivers the same question every summer at Baldwin County High School Media Day.

I won’t feel nearly as bad about it next summer.

That question, or some variation of it, is “Could you return to the NFL at some point?” I believe this past summer the exact question was, “Do you think the door is now closed on any type of return to the NFL?”

Philip’s answer on July 30, 2025, was the following : “I would say it’s pretty much been shut the last two years.”

Case closed.

Unless it’s not.

As I write this column, Rivers is back in the NFL , signed to the Colts’ practice squad earlier this week. At age 44, he will be the oldest player in the NFL if he in

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