What Philip Rivers’ family thinks about their 44

INDIANAPOLIS – Four months ago, Philip Rivers’ 6-year-old daughter Anna asked her father, rather bluntly:

‘Dad, why don’t you play (football) anymore?’

After all, the five, 10, even 15-year-old highlights circulate occasionally, as they tend to do when only five quarterbacks in the history of the game have thrown for more touchdowns and yards than you, and you’re one of the game’s most beloved trash-talkers, and you’re lauded years after retirement for your toughness and competitiveness.