But it's not as if the door has closed on a potential return. Warner football jersey can unretire at any time before the annual deadline for doing so, which typically arises late in the regular season. It remains highly unlikely that he will.
Either way, the decision not to move Warner off the active roster was hardly an accident or an oversight. Teams may carry only 80 players under contract during the offseason, and not having Warner on the reserve/retired list means that they went through minicamps and OTAs with only 79 players, in addition to any unsigned draft picks.
At a deeper level, it's possible that the Cardinals jerseys were holding out hope that Warner would take a page from the Favre playbook. Rumors had circulated a couple of months ago that Warner's inability to land a broadcasting job could lead him back to the field for another season. (Warner thereafter reiterated that he's still retired, but he made clear that he hopes to find a way to stay "involved" with football.)
So why the delay? For starters, the lack of a salary cap gave the team no urgency to put Warner on the shelf.
But the Cardinals refrained from putting him on the reserve/retired list for months. Adam Caplan of FOXSports.com reports that the team finally made the move earlier this week.
More than a week before the Super Bowl, Cardinals quarterback new Kurt Warner jerseyannounced that his football career has ended.
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