Chargers Legendary QB Philip Rivers Officially Retiring as a Charger
Chargers’ legendary QB Philip Rivers announced last week that he is officially retiring as a Charger.
In a Social Media post that the team posted last week, Philip Rivers said, “I’m Philip Rivers, quarterback, and I’m retiring as a Charger.”
Philip Rivers spent 16 seasons as the quarterback for the Chargers organization. Philip Rivers signed a one-day contract last week to officially retire as a Charger.
Looking back at Philip Rivers’ career with the Chargers, he was an 8-time Pro Bowler, threw over 4,908 passes, and threw 397 touchdowns. Philip Rivers had a great career, which will definitely get him to the Hall of Fame one day. He was the NFL passing yards leader in 2010.
Philip Rivers said in the emotional video last week:
“It’s really, in the past handful of years, been my desire [to retire] as a Charger. It was more so the timing“.
The Spanos family said that Philip Rivers will always have a special place in the franchise. Philip Rivers played 228 games as the Chargers’ QB. The Chargers QB had set lots of franchise records for the team. Philip Rivers’ passing yards as a Charger are 59,271, and pass attempts are 7,591.
What makes Philip Rivers the best is his competitiveness, as well as his trash talk when he was playing. Philip Rivers holds more than 30 Chargers records for the franchise, and led the team to 4 straight AFC West titles from 2006 to 2009. Philip Rivers’ career is really the best. It will go down as the best Chargers QB in franchise history, other than Dan Fouts.
Rivers will definitely get inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame like his former teammates Antonio Gates and LaDainian Tomlinson.
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