The only surprise, perhaps, was that a player respected in two hemispheres for his crunching tackling – YouTube is not short of shuddering examples – never won a World Cup.
Joey Gamache Jr. has not seen the tape of his crunching, controversial knockout by Arturo Gatti, but he has already decided not to fight again.
Players who have fallen under one of his crunching tackles will no doubt quietly cheer his departure, just as some managers will be happy to see the back of Ferguson.
Many of these boys probably see themselves in Mike Sorrentino, "The Situation" from the "Jersey Shore" series on MTV, or the Adam Sackler character, on the HBO series "Girls," who rarely wears a shirt or takes a break from his crunches.
But in his crunching cameo, after less than 80 minutes for his club Leicester, it was made quite clear: it has to be somewhere, for natural gifts like this cannot be wasted.
Kill the Noise returned once again from whatever shroudy cave he's been hiding in to show us, as he did last year, that he's taken his crunch-step tonal palate and applied it to house beats.
In a game where the best teams now field 11 technically excellent No 10s who, rather than pass to each other, simply teleport the ball via an invisible web of telekinesis – thanks again, Pep Guardiola, for ruining English football – Charlie Adam is an ever-more obsolete piece of equipment, with his crunching tackles and hardy brutality.
To the ire of his friend Crunch, but the amusement of his sister, Coco, Crash is prone to impolite personal habits such as belching or scratching his posterior.
Among his detractors, those who contributed to his fiscal crunch came in for the roughest drubbings.
Or was he just another frustrated, out-of-shape dude, thrown into rage at the sight of a tiny rat rubbing his face in the fact that he can count his 2018 Crunch visits on one hand?
As Jared Bernstein, now the chief economic adviser to Vice President Joseph Biden, wrote in the preface to his book, "Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed?
