All I'm going to say is that the NFL lost a great colorful character, who followed the rules, never hurt his team and did lots of good in the community.

I hope he retires in the purple.

On Detroit:

I don't like going to Detroit. I'll be honest. It's gloomy. It sucks. Everything is brown and then there is snow on the ground. There's, like, brownstones everywhere and I'm like, 'Awesome.' I don't know, I couldn't do it. If I had to live in Detroit, I think I'd just drown myself in the river that was across the way. I'm not trying to be mean, but it's just depressing when I go there.

On New Orleans:

There's two cities, like, I don't go out to eat or don't do anything. It's Detroit and New Orleans. New Orleans looks like I'm driving through a third-world country every time I get off the plane. I'm like, 'Oh, flak jacket.' I'm trying to get down. I'm like, 'Ah, crap, I can't carry my gun here. This sucks.'

read more: JARED ALLEN: Hates going to cities of New Orleans and Detroit - Business Insider

what did he do so much in the community? I'm curious, never really heard of him doing much, #shrug. Yeah, he probably visited a school or something and did the Play 60 commercial with the rest of the guys, but did he really do that much?

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Naturally, what he said about Detroit and New Orleans wasn't called for even if he really feels that way, but in general most of his verbal pokes were in jest.