Mike Alstott announced his retirement this morning, bringing an end to a career that will be celebrated by Buccaneer fans forever. It's nice that Alstott will never wear the colors of another team. It feels right.

There's a ton of Alstott material to read at the usual stops. TBO.com has a central location for all things Alstott, which is nice. And here's a photo gallery from The Times. The Buccaneers put together a short tribute video that has some of his better runs. It's better than the YouTube one that's been around for a few months, but still it's not complete. I've been clamoring for a compilation of all of Alstott's great runs and now seems like the time to do it. The Buccaneers could put together a high-quality hour-long DVD of all those runs as well as some camp and "behind the scenes" stuff and make a fortune on it right now. I'd buy it. HINT!

I know I've been a little hard on Alstott lately because I thought he should have retired a while ago, but he was able to get a redshirt year of pay out of it, which he totally deserved so good for him. Without question, he was one of the most exciting players to watch and embodied everything that is good about football. Congratulations, Mike.

(read all the nice things current and former teammates had to say about him, also.)