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 NEW YORK (AP) - Curtis Martin's playing career was marked by class, toughness and overall excellence, an impressive combination that the newly retired running back thinks will make him the perfect NFL owner. The league's No. 4 rusher announced his long-anticipated retirement Thursday — a day before the New York Jets started training camp practices — and revealed he has his sights set on owning a football team.
"Football has the greatest fan base of any sport," Martin said at a small, 45-minute news conference at the team's Manhattan offices. "With fan base comes influence, and with influence comes responsibility. My whole career has been about maintaining that responsibility as a player.
"I believe in using football as a vehicle to reach out and do some good in society within the team and to individual lives. Ownership is a larger way of continuing what I have already started."
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