Jared Allen rides into the sunset

As I inch closer to the day I retire, I find myself thinking more often about how I want to do it.

Until today, I pretty much had decided that I would call in and say “I’m not coming to work today; I retired yesterday” and that would be that.

Then I saw former Vikings player Jared Allen’s retirement announcement on Twitter today and now I need to find a horse and a coat that is so pristine it appears to have never been on a horse before. Cowboy hat optional.

Riding off into the sunset pic.twitter.com/wZXovseGKS

— Jared Allen (@JaredAllen69) February 18, 2016

About the blogger

Bob Collins

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Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.