"For those guys I'll always be their captain," Carson said this week. "Ironically, I have a book coming out in August, and the title is, "Captain for Life." It is not something that I gave to myself, but Phil McConkey and Jim Burt sort of tagged me with that years ago. They said, ‘You will always be our captain for life.' And so I still feel like, especially after the Hall of Fame (Carson was inducted in 2006) and all of the situations that occur with players who might be having some issues that some people are not looking to address, I have been advocating on behalf of these players to get better benefits. And so in essence, I'm sort of a quasi-captain for them."