J.J. Watt was bound to get hit with a tidal wave of well-wishes after announcing his retirement, but the best one came from within the Arizona Cardinals organization.
"I posted the tweet yesterday and then I just kinda put my phone down because I knew it would be crazy ... I'm scrolling through it and there's this number that I don't recognize that FaceTimes me. I'm like 'I'm not going to answer a FaceTime that I don't know.' So I just let it go to voicemail, and then I get a text from that number. It's a voice memo.
"So I play the voice memo — I wish I could play it so bad. I wish so bad. I'm gonna ask him. I'm gonna ask him if I can later, because I don't want to now. It is incoherent. Complete incoherence. I'm like 'What the hell is this?' I literally thought it was distorted from the phone. Ten seconds later, a picture comes through, and it is Jesse Luketa, our rookie outside linebacker, and he has cotton balls in his mouth.
"He just got his wisdom teeth out. He was high off his ass. He has no clue what he's doing. In the message it says, 'J.J., I just heard you're retiring, all I want is a jersey at the end of the season.'"Luketa himself confirmed Watt's story on Wednesday.
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