Retirement @ MindSay

Here is a look at some of his career numbers:

 

• Three-time Pro Bowl running back enjoyed a stellar seven-year run with Kansas City from 2001-07 after signing with the Chiefs on April 21, 2001.

 

• Produced 1,780 carries for 8,172 yards (4.6 avg.) with 86 TDs, as well as 339 receptions for 2,962 yards (8.7 avg.) and eight TDs over his 11-year NFL career.

 

• During his 65 regular season games (63 starts) in a Kansas City uniform established nine different Chiefs career records, including marks for rushing yards (6,070), total TDs (83) and rushing TDs (76).

 

• Also holds eight different Kansas City single-season records including marks for points (162 in 2003), receptions by a running back (74 in 2003) and yards from scrimmage (2,287 in 2002).

 

• His 8,172 rushing yards are the most by any undrafted player since the AFL-NFL merger.

 

• Piled up 500 points with the Chiefs, the third-highest tally in team history.

 

• Registered 66 total TDs over a three-year period from 2002-04, the second-highest total in NFL history over a three-year span.

 

• His 48 rushing TDs from 2002-03 established the best two-year total in league annals in that category.

 

• Ranks 14th in NFL lore with 86 career rushing TDs.

 

• Registered three or more rushing TDs in nine games during his NFL career, just one shy of the league mark held by Hall of Fame RB Jim Brown (10).

 

• Ranks fourth in team history among running backs with 2,377 receiving yards, only 453 yards short of FB Kimble Anders’ team record (2,829).

 

• Stands second in Kansas City history with 8,447 yards from scrimmage, a mark he held until TE Tony Gonzalez (9,414) overtook him in 2006.

 

• From 2001-06, no running back in the league averaged more yards from scrimmage per game than Holmes (136.0) or rushing yards per game (97.3).

 

• Racked up a franchise-record 2,287 yards from scrimmage in 2002 alone, the ninth-highest seasonal mark in NFL history.

 

• Owns 31 career regular season 100-yard rushing games, including 24 with KC, a mark that ranks second in Chiefs history behind RB Larry Johnson.

 

• Ranks 35th on the NFL’s all-time rushing yardage chart with 8,172 yards.

 

• Became the only player in Chiefs history to compile three or more 1,000-yard rushing campaigns, when he topped the mark in 2001, 2002 and 2003.

 

• Piled up 1,420 rushing yards in 2003 after setting a franchise record and earning NFL Offensive Player of the Year honors from the Associated Press with a 1,615-yard effort in just 14 games in 2002.

 

• Led the NFL in rushing with 1,555 yards in 2001.

 

• Owns Chiefs records for rushes of 10+ yards in a career (190), season (53 in 2002) and game (10 at Oakland 12/9/01).

 

• Is the only player in franchise annals to register two 100-yard double-doubles (100 yards rushing and 100 yards receiving).

 

• Registered five career 100-yard receiving games in a KC uniform.

 

• Set a KC single-season record for RBs with 74 catches for 690 yards in ‘03.

 

• A former rookie free agent with Baltimore, Holmes became the first Ravens runner to ever post a 1,000-yard season with 1,008 yards in ‘98.

 

• Earned a Super Bowl XXXV ring with Baltimore in 2000.

 

• Was named AFC Offensive Player of the Week six times, getting that honor five times with the Chiefs and once with the Ravens.

 

• Named AFC Offensive Player of the Month in October of 2002 and 2004.

 

• Played in five postseason games (two starts), amassing 42 carries for 221 yards (5.3 avg.) with two TDs.

 

• Saw action in four postseason games with the Ravens including a start in Super Bowl XXXV vs. the N.Y. Giants (1/28/01).

we have been bleeding money since we retired and have ben fixing up the house. The reason we did so much so fat was that in other houses we took our good time  about doing some special things and then maybe a year after getting myy dream kitchen we found we were selling and someone else was going to get the deacdes of fun my nnew kitchen could have given me.

 

And being older I wasn't sure we wanted to be painting room and doing carpentry work as senior citizens. and I wanted to enjoy this house ASAP because I could get run over tomorrow and would have missed those soapstone counters or warm ttles and bidet. but it has been expensive and while we are nt poverty stricken by anymeans we eant our investments to last and let us live the comfy lifestyle we got oh too accustomed to.

 

 this weekend we had one of those money budget meetings where we look at the hemorrhage spots to see where we  ned to live less insanely.

 

Joint areas were cable TV- we rarely watch anything live other anymore, once deadwood and sopranos ended that ended our live TV time. And cell phone contracts. SO Jim took on the cable tv people to change our contract ad  I called T Mobile. Right now we are paying 54 a month for two phone with gazillions of minutes we never use. Jim used one minute last month and I used 47 minutes, only because I happened to have them.

 

I called T-Mobile to change to a prepaid pplan. what a laugh. each  phone would incur a $200 early termination fee. that's almost all of a years fees. so when i acted like I might just cancel the service altogether and let them try to collect the money- hinted at sweetly and absentmindedly as only a belle can do- well,  he suddenly came up with the special  outdated plan only available to long time T mobile users of $19. a month for each phone and then in July 2008 I could change to prepaid plans with no penalty. Isn't that amazing how he found that plan?  

 

My personal bleeds were  in my purchasing of fiber, dyes, yarn and cloth- I have been essentially out of control and spending hundreds every month on these hobbies. I need to stop that and start using up my cache or finish the dozens of uncompleted projects that fill drawers in my studio. Shoes were a little out of control but I was switchig to a new climate with new foot demands and needed some new warmer clothing afte rmore than a decade in the deep south. DVD's and CD's I was exceptionally good and only moderately bad about book.

 

Every penny we save means that working part time for either of us doesn't have to becoe a need because we both adore making our own time. I could work part time in the afternoons but getting up and being somewhere everyday at 8 am would be hellishly hellish hell.

 

It's economy time.

that's the only word for my current existence. when i imagined myself as a middleaged woman married to a man who had just retired, I really groaned at the image. I imagined him in my hair all the time, in too small a home with too much time on his hands basically making me nuts. and it has turned out quite differently.

 

 

 

First of all he did a magnificant job of squirreling away the bucks all these years so that he could retire earlier than many. and then he made sure we continued to have great medical care but then the greatest coup was managing the details of this move to portland. sure i unpacked a home and found medical care and friends and decorated many many rooms and supervised a kitchen redo but that all was  contingent on the amazing prep work my husband did to make this life so fine.

 

so essentially we have a week of saturdays. no bedtime because we have to get up early. no co workers adding stress to our lives. we eat and sleep and play when we want and when things need to be done we can move at a leisurely pace- like the kitchen is 90% done and we are taking our time  finishing up the last details.

 

today for example. Jim played tennis. I played in the yard while abi prowled as far as her leash would allow. after we took a bargh together in the two person jacuzzi- the daily ritual of discussing the news-  he heated up the grill, I made cajun black and blue burgers with the most delicious oregon blue cheese. then we played cards on the north patio while the sun set and listened to the water gurgle in the bird bath under the maples.

 

we have six distinct places to sit outdoors: one along the south patio near the pond, another under the trees in the back. on the top deck we can sit  in the butterfly chairs in the sun  or under the eaves behind blue canvas screens in the swinging chairs. The there is the dining deck off the kitchen and dining room.... it's covered and this summer jim is going to screen it in. and finally there is the north patio, all tucked behind japanese maples and camellis hedges. four teak adirondack chairs and a large coffee table let you lounge away with cosmopolitans and the breeze.

 

That's why I call it delightful. a portland evening is cool , bug free. the sparrows and swallows keep us company as the sun sets behind the hedges. yes delightful. very very very. thanks honey.

 

By Donna Miles

American Forces Press Service

 

March 22, 2007 – Resident care is the paramount concern at the Armed Forces Retirement Home here, and allegations of poor conditions "are without merit," the facility's chief operating officer said in a statement released yesterday.  Tim Cox responded to the Government Accountability Office's request that the Defense Department investigate allegations against the historic home in the heart of the nation's capital that has housed four U.S. presidents, including Abraham Lincoln.

 

"Because nothing is more important than the safety and health of our heroes, we take these allegations very seriously," Cox said.

 

Cox noted that the GAO has not conducted its own investigation into what he called "inflammatory allegations" made by unidentified critics, despite the fact that GAO inspectors recently visited the campus twice on an unrelated inquiry required by Congress.

 

He acknowledged that the home has experienced incidents consistent with a nursing home environment. Half its residents are over the age 80, and many are frail and suffer from chronic health conditions, he said.

 

The GAO said patients may be at risk due to health-care problems ranging from serious pressure sores to one case involving maggots in the wound of a resident.

 

Cox noted that one particularly troublesome incident, involving maggots in the leg wound of an 87-year-old resident, occurred in August.

 

"Our medical staff discovered it and immediately took remedial action," Cox noted. He said the fact that the resident had refused medical treatment was no excuse for the incident, and that eight health-care workers were fired after an investigation showed they had failed to meet the home's standards of care.

 

The home is getting a close evaluation. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Dr. William Winkenwerder sent a team of doctors on an unscheduled visit to the campus yesterday to assess conditions for themselves, Cox noted. In addition, legislative staffers are expected to visit the facility to see firsthand the care and security its staff provides. "We welcome these visits," Cox said.

 

More than 1,100 enlisted military veterans live at the home, which Cox said offers all the amenities of a retirement community. That's in addition to an extensive health care system, ranging from a wellness clinic for those who live independently to assisted living to long-term and hospice care.

 

"We are proud of our home for heroes, and put resident safety, health and security first and foremost," Cox said.

 

Congress consolidated the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home here with the U.S. Naval Home in Gulfport, Miss., in 1991, creating the Armed Forces Retirement Home as an independent establishment in the executive branch of the Federal government. Ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, the Gulfport campus closed in 2005. Nearly 400 residents of the Gulfport facility were relocated to the Washington campus.

 

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