It's been nine years and about 9 million laughs, but eventually all good things must come to an end. On Sunday, former Chicago Bears defensive end and all-around funny dude Anthony "Spice" Adams announced that he was retiring from the game of football.
The amicable lineman announced his split from the game in a rather expected fashion, turning to YouTube to produce a fake press conference from inside of an empty White Castle restaurant on the outskirts of Chicago.
"I enjoyed my time in San Francisco and here in Chicago," Adams says behind a White Castle counter. "Appreciate y'all. Thanks a lot."
The Detroit native, 32, had actually spent the entire 2012 season out of football, looking for a team that wanted to invest in his boisterous personality and 10.5 career sacks. He used YouTube to help lead that free-agency charge, producing a number of videos that, among other things, showcased his humility, humor, and out-of-this-world athletic ability.
The free-agent operation never worked out, but Adams did obtain a pretty solid fanhood online, with more than 260,000 fans turning out for his"Stuff NFL Free Agents Say" video and another 118,000 for"Basketball Is My First Love."
"That's just how I act all the time," he told the Daily Dot last August. "People don't get a chance to see it. I would do stuff in the locker room, and I always noticed that people would be taping it and putting on Twitter. It would crack people up. I realized that I should put it all onto a video."
Adams didn't announce plans for anything post-football, but you can expect he'll be around. After all, 300-pound people named Spice who've demonstrated a propensity for hamming it up for the camera usually have a tendency to stick around.
Photo viaAnthony Adams/YouTube