Precious few players have the opportunity to walk about from professional sports on their own terms.
More often than not, a player simply remains unsigned and eventually never gets another offer to play. Former NFL wide receiver Isaiah McKenzie, who played for the Bills, Broncos and Colts in seven NFL seasons, seems to be in that boat.
McKenzie was preparing to watch Buffalo’s game Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens with a tinge of envy. He wrote this message on X: “Idk what’s worse losing with 13 seconds left or the NFL season starting with me on the couch either way #Gobills.”
McKenzie included a photo of himself from that “13 seconds” game against the Chiefs when Kansas City rallied and defeated the Bills 42-36 in overtime of an AFC Divisional playoff game in 2022.
A former Bills teammate who also is retired had a much different reaction. Cole Beasley, who last played in 2022, said that loss to the Chiefs, in which the Bills led by 3 points with 13 seconds remaining in regulation, still hurts to this day.
“I don’t think anything was worse than losing with 13 seconds left. That ... still stings,” Beasley wrote in response to McKenzie on X.
Beasley used a curse word with that post and it is where the ellipses is in the quote above.