Chad Henne Announces Retirement
Chad Henne calling it a career. Capping it off with @budlight 🍺 and another ring 💍!
February 13th, 2023 at 6:37 AM ^
Congrats champ!
February 13th, 2023 at 7:07 AM ^
Guess you have to take the training wheels off Mahomes sometime. Congrats, it's time.
February 13th, 2023 at 7:09 AM ^
I wonder if the Chiefs will be able to maintain their high level of success with a change at the QB position....
February 13th, 2023 at 7:15 AM ^
See Tom, that's how you do it.
February 13th, 2023 at 7:28 AM ^
Slightly different situations.
February 13th, 2023 at 8:50 AM ^
Brady is from California. Henne is from Pennsylvania. What else is different?
February 13th, 2023 at 9:00 AM ^
Is this a real question?
February 13th, 2023 at 2:05 PM ^
Their salaries were also a bit different. Henne made almost $39 million for his career, brady almost $333 million. If Henne handled his money wisely, he should be set for a very nice retirement. We should all be so lucky.
The site where the payroll info came from is: https://www.spotrac.com/
February 13th, 2023 at 7:35 AM ^
To be fair this is only his first retirement.
February 13th, 2023 at 8:49 AM ^
and he's never had an active role in a SuperBowl win..... But he's a 2x champ none the less.
Congrats and enjoy your retirement. Personally, I think he has about 5 more seasons left in the tank.... in his current role.
February 13th, 2023 at 9:38 PM ^
Written as someone who’s never played a team sport.
February 13th, 2023 at 9:36 AM ^
Tom,
Please let us know the next time you need career, relationship or financial advise. We're here to help.
February 13th, 2023 at 10:52 AM ^
If only he came to the MGoBoard before the Gisele strife...we're such a helpful bunch
February 13th, 2023 at 9:38 PM ^
Fuck that, now Gisele’s back on the market!!! I’m on team strife!
February 13th, 2023 at 11:53 AM ^
Well...obviously!
February 13th, 2023 at 7:36 AM ^
How awesome for him. Two rings. Played a small but crucial on-field role in this year’s playoff run. Made great money. Retires on top.
February 13th, 2023 at 7:43 AM ^
And in the one a few years ago. Darn good question of whether that one would have happened without him.
February 13th, 2023 at 7:48 AM ^
Small...playoffs...
The pressure of this seasoned Michigan miracle from Pennsylvania breathing down your neck is what created the diamond that is Mahomes. So much so they are celebrating in the streets of brotherly love.
February 13th, 2023 at 7:35 PM ^
With minimal damage to his body!
February 13th, 2023 at 7:58 AM ^
He had an enviable career. Good for him.
Side note: Someone please tell me he was paid to endorse that overpriced, crappy beer.
February 13th, 2023 at 8:07 AM ^
Hey, cut him some slack. He no longer gets a regular paycheck anymore, so a man has got to do things to make ends meet.
February 13th, 2023 at 8:44 AM ^
Fair. +1
February 13th, 2023 at 10:50 AM ^
Talk about aging with grace. Take a bow, young man.
February 13th, 2023 at 8:22 AM ^
What a gig. Make millions and retire with your brain and knees intact.
February 13th, 2023 at 8:35 AM ^
Between Brady and Henne - Michigan QBs have nearly half the super bowl rings over the last 22 years. Simply amazing. Hopefully JJ and some other guys take the torch over the next decade.
February 13th, 2023 at 8:33 PM ^
Let’s also NEVER forget the time they met on the field: September 12, 2011. Monday night football, Patriots v Dolphins.
Brady SHREDDED the Dolphins. 517 yards passing, 5 touchdowns. But…Henne also SHREDDED the Patriots: 416 yards passing and 60 YARDS RUSHING.
Pats won, but it was an epic, epic game. That was also 11+ years ago. Henne was 3 years into his career, which in the NFL is “mid career” for most people, and the “will Brady retire soon” conversations had already started at that point.
Since that day, 5 (or is it 6?) super bowl rings between them.
edit: it’s 6 rings
February 13th, 2023 at 8:39 AM ^
Henne was briefly tied for the league lead in Super Bowl rings among active QBs.
February 13th, 2023 at 8:40 AM ^
Congrats Chad …. Enjoy your good health more than the money !!!
February 13th, 2023 at 8:41 AM ^
I think this is his better side...
February 13th, 2023 at 9:05 AM ^
You wouldn't be using a bristlecone pine to make an age analogy, would you? Nah.
February 13th, 2023 at 11:13 AM ^
Maybe...
February 13th, 2023 at 8:43 AM ^
Retired with 2 Super Bowl rings
February 13th, 2023 at 8:53 AM ^
First freshman starter at QB since Rick Leach. 4-0 vs MSU. 47–21 at ND. Multiple game winning TDS to Manningham.
Two decade career in the NFL with two rings.
Congratulations, Chad.
February 13th, 2023 at 9:09 AM ^
Congrats to him.
It's going to be weird not having a UM QB in the NFL anymore.
February 13th, 2023 at 9:10 AM ^
With Henne and Brady retiring, does that mean no Michigan QBs in the NFL?
February 13th, 2023 at 9:31 AM ^
We'll have one in the league in a year or two.
February 13th, 2023 at 10:25 AM ^
Shea Patterson is starting in the USFL. He could do a Doug Flutie and find himself in the big league of he plays things right.
February 13th, 2023 at 12:32 PM ^
Equally plausible: I, at age 39 with no football experience, could be selected to be an NFL quarterback.
February 13th, 2023 at 11:23 AM ^
I was wondering the other day after Brady retired who the best skill player from UM is in the league right now. It's pretty bare. Can only think of DPJ & Nico as even contributors. Loads of linemen but it's jarring the lack of RB WR etc.
February 13th, 2023 at 12:07 PM ^
Depends on how you define a 'skill' player. Is an edge rusher a skill player? What about cornerbacks? Linebackers? We have plenty of skilled defensive players that start on their respective teams and appear on stat sheets with sacks, interceptions, pass breakups, etc.
February 13th, 2023 at 9:30 AM ^
I inherited my Michigan fandom from my wife (alum) when I moved here in 2007. I still have fond memories of Chad Henne & company taking it to Urban Meyer and Tim Tebow's squad in the bowl game that season. (I apologize for the ensuing implosion of the team in the years that followed.)
Congrats to Chad on a great career!!
February 13th, 2023 at 2:12 PM ^
It's the comeback in the 2007 MSU game that I'll remember most about Henne: that 7-play, 79-yard TD drive in the 4th quarter. Henne used the sidelines like a pro, threw a TD strike to Greg Matthews to cut their lead to 3, and did it all in only 53 seconds. A thing of beauty.
Congrats, and enjoy your retirement. Go Blue!
February 13th, 2023 at 9:34 AM ^
Congrats on the Super Bowl title and a very good career
February 13th, 2023 at 9:39 AM ^
Hell of a career.
February 13th, 2023 at 9:59 AM ^
The only nitpick I have is that he should've chosen Yuengling to pay proper homage to his Pennsylvania roots. Otherwise, well done Mr Henne! Congrats on a long and prosperous NFL career.
February 13th, 2023 at 12:14 PM ^
Good luck finding that particular beer in Arizona.
February 13th, 2023 at 1:28 PM ^
I think you smuggle one on the charter flight for the occasion.
February 13th, 2023 at 9:43 PM ^
If you’re smuggling beer onto a charter flight to celebrate a Super Bowl, you’re not doing it right…