Kordell Stewart's phone stopped ringing with offers from NFL teams years ago.

Still, Stewart never officially retired. Not even after landing on his feet by getting a football analyst gig at ESPN in 2008.

When his father died in March of last year, Stewart knew he needed to get some closure in parts of his life, football being among them.

Though Stewart spent his last two seasons with Baltimore in 2004-05, filing his retirement papers while wearing purple-and-black just didn't feel right.