Pro Football
Mike Webster, mainstay center on the Pittsburgh’s four Super Bowl championship teams, retired after a 17-year career that probably will carry him into the NFL Hall of Fame.
“It has been 17 wonderful years, but one thing you learn in this game is reality, “ said Webster, who will turn 39 Monday. “It’s time.”
Webster spent the last two seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs after changing his plans to retire in 1989. Carl Peterson, president of the Chiefs, said Webster has been offered a job as an assistant coach.
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