The Bengals have moved on without the not-quite-retired, not-at-all-happy Palmer, with the rookie Andy Dalton earning the starting quarterback job based largely on availability and willingness.
All last week the New York radio station known as Hot 97 had been hyping a transformative event: not Sunday night's five-hour concert but the Friday night premiere of a new song by the not-quite-retired Jay-Z.
— On a overcast, muggy afternoon at the Packers' training camp, 20 spectators brandished signs for a Web site supporting the return of the not-quite-retired quarterback Brett Favre.
And another reminder that the past can seem quite present: some retired admirals in Britain have come up with a reason not to cut back on their fleet — the Argentines might attack the Falklands, any minute now.
It's great if you're a metropolitan, quite well-heeled, retired professional who's got a lovely nest egg in the bank and is fully au fait with how to deal with the government.
Someone had told me that Barbette was now associated with a circus, and although Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows moved its winter quarters some time ago from Sarasota to Venice, I knew that quite a few retired circus people continue to live in Sarasota, and my friends learned about Austin from one of them.
Nowadays, every comic hero is an antihero, although few are quite so hateful as retired gymnast Hope Annabelle Greggory, the emotional black hole at the centre of The Bronze, a sporting comedy which premiered last year at Sundance and this week goes straight-to-VOD just in time for the Rio games.
The timing of Ferguson's autobiography, with all its strategic point-scoring, is another demonstration of his less appealing side and, yes, it is probably true Moyes would not have looked quite so inadequate if the retired manager were not so visible.
