Jul 30th 2008 9:39AM by Ryan Wilson (author feed)
Filed under: Chiefs, AFC West
It looks like the Chiefs could have a Brett Favre situation on their hands. Except exactly different. Tight end Tony Gonzalez is entering his 12 season and he’s indicating that there’s a 95 percent chance he comes back for No. 13. See, just like Favre.

In fact, according to the , if the Chiefs win the Super Bowl, Gonzalez is gone — apparently, the future Hall of Famer gives the team a five percent chance to win the whole thing, which seems awfully high, but, hey, he gets points for optimism.

Fantasy Island scenarios aside, Gonzalez sounds like a guy who’ll be around in 2009: “There are going to be some growing pains,” he said. “There’s no doubt about that. But I think by the end of the year we’re going to have a really good football team, and we’re going to be that much better next year.” Which should make quarterback Brodie Croyle very happy.

Oh, and another reason to hang around for one more season: Gonzalez would have to return a big part of his signing bonus. Whenever he finally decides to leave the game, Gonzalez will retire as one of the best tight ends in NFL history, and more importantly, I suspect he’ll graduate to the television studio and spare us all the need to un-retire a handful of times before actually doing so.

Thanks in advance for skipping the self-indulgent, “this is all about me!” act. Greatly appreciated, sir.