Jared Allen announced his retirement from the NFL on February 18, 2016, after 12 seasons in the league.

He did it in a now-famous Twitter video where he sat on a horse and said he was going to “ride off into the sunset,” then joked that since there was no sunset, he would “just ride off.” A bit later, on April 14, 2016, he signed a one-day contract with the Minnesota Vikings so he could officially retire as a member of that team.

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