Priest Holmes has retired.

:-( He is a class act.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-chiefs-holmes&prov=ap&type=lgns

Priest Holmes retired Wednesday, ending a short comeback hailed as one of the most improbable in NFL history.

The 34-year-old three-time Pro Bowl running back said he experienced "symptoms" during last Sunday's game in Indianapolis similar to those he felt more than two years ago when head and neck injuries put him out of the game for 22 months.

He refused to be specific. Holmes did mention during an often rambling series of answers that paralysis had been a possibility if he kept playing.

Asked to explain what symptoms he felt, Holmes was evasive.

"Much of that is, I guess you could say, in the past," he said. "Just to know the symptoms were similar to the ones before. But to be technical, to go into medical terms, I wouldn't feel comfortable."

Chiefs president Carl Peterson appeared with Holmes and his three young sons at a news conference. Peterson said Holmes had an agreement with the club that he would alert the Chiefs the moment he felt any danger of recurring injury to the head or neck.

time to go out to the pasture

Don't want him to be injured more seriously.

Sad day in Chiefs land.

be well, Priest.

He went by Anthony Holmes back then.

Edit - it's sad that he had to retire due to injury.

And fought for everything he was able to achieve. An amazing athlete and an amazing man.