Breaking Non-News Story: Holmgren wants to return to NFL

Quite a few blogs and news outlets broke this huge non-story, fresh from the “Stuff We Already Know” file: Former Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren wants to return to the NFL.

According to the Washington Post, Post reporter Les Carpenter talked to Holmgren at an event in Washington, D.C. hosted by Redskins coach Jim Zorn where Holmgren dropped an apparent bomb shell on Carpenter that he’d like to return to the NFL. This was apparently news to Carpenter and Mark Maske of the Post. But if anyone paid attention to Holmgren’s year-long goodbye tour last season, including the myriad of supporting news and analysis, they’d have come to the conclusion that Holmgren was politely booted out to make room for new coach Jimmy Mora.

Here's the huge scoop by the Post:

Former Seattle Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren said he has made the decision that he wants to work again and is open to the idea of coaching, but has not made a final decision on whether he will do that or work in a front office somewhere. He said he has not thought through his emotions enough to know exactly what it is he wants to do.

Holmgren is in the midst of a year off to cool his jets and spend some time with his family before returning to coaching or a front office gig. Who didn’t know this? You know who didn’t know this? The media outlets located in NFC East cities.

And yes, D.C., New York, Philly fans, all Seattleites paddle their skiffs to work and live on house boats like Tom Hanks in “Sleepless in Seattle.”