PITTSBURGH (AP) — Teddy Bridgewater always planned to play football this year.

Just maybe not quite this early.

In a perfect world, the well-traveled quarterback wouldn't be spending this weekend in Pittsburgh getting ready for his preseason debut with Tampa Bay , but in Miami helping Northwestern High prepare to defend the Florida Class 3A title he coached his alma mater to last winter.

Don't get Bridgewater wrong. The 32-year-old — whose retirement hasn't quite stuck more than 18 months after he announced it — is eager to go out and show he can still “spin it." And he's grateful to do it for a team that has ripped off four straight NFC South titles, a team that also happens to be not that far from home.

Still, Bridgewater would be lying if he said this was his first choice. The p

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