The St. Louis Rams have been scrambling to find a quarterback after their starter, Sam Bradford, went down with a season-ending injury. No one, however, thought they would call a grandfather.

44-year-old Brett Favre hasn't played in the NFL since 2010, but he got the call from the Rams over the weekend. Perhaps the team thought he would be willing to just come back to finish out the second half of the season without having to deal with the rigorous full season.

But for all the hoopla, it seemed to be all for naught when Favre's agent, Bus Cook, notified the Rams that his client said he wants to stay retired.

"It's flattering, but you know there's no way I'm going to do that," Favre said. "I had a great career. I think, if anything, the last year I played was an obvious writing-on-the-wall vision for you, if you will," he said. "It was time."

Favre went on to say he is finally able to do things he couldn't do during his career.

"My family took a backseat for 20 years. My 14-year-old daughter plays volleyball and is in the ninth grade and will be playing again the next three years. I've taken trips that I never thought I'd take. I've gone to Yellowstone and I've gone to Glacier National Park. ... We've gone down to the Bahamas, we've done things that really everybody in my family just kind of waited for.

Favre also talked about his physical shape as people have wanted to know whether he is doing it to hold out one last strand of hope.

"I'm like a yardstick, I'm so stiff," he said. "So I'm just trying to ... not stay in shape to play, but stay in shape to do everyday things, not only with my daughter and my wife and my grandson, but really just for me."

The Rams just signed Brady Quinn, who was released by the Jets. It seems that Kellen Clemens is the starter at the moment and will likely make his season debut as a starter this week against Seattle.