Reggie Wayne may have caught all 1,070 of his NFL passes with the Indianapolis Colts, but that wasn't the franchise the six-time Pro Bowl wide receiver ended his career with. Wayne was on the New England Patriots for two weeks in 2015 before asking for his release and retiring in the months that followed. It was a surprising end to the decorated receiver's career. The Patriots were the reigning Super Bowl champions, so it would make sense for Wayne to choose them and have one last shot at Super Bowl glory, but that wasn't the reason Wayne ultimately chose New England. 

Wayne had a contract offer from the Detroit Lions, but Detroit wanted him to go through a pre-signing workout. Even though the Lions had Jim Caldwell as head coach (Wayne's head coach with the Colts), the wide receiver felt that was an insult. 

"I said, 'Work out? You the Detroit Lions. Wait. Work out? I'm good,'" Wayne said on NFL Network host Dan Hellie's Hellipod podcast (via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press). "Like, I can give you — I got 14 years of working out that you can see. So I was like, 'Nah, I'm cool.'"

Wayne, coming off triceps surgery, gladly accepted a workout with the Patriots -- and eventually signed a one-year, $3 million deal with them. He didn't mind working out for New England because they were the Patriots. Wayne asked for his release two weeks later, but the Patriots let him keep his $450,000 signing bonus. 

That was the "best job ever," according to Wayne. 

"Bill Belichick told me to keep it. Told me to keep it," Wayne said. "I'm like, 'Hey, you ain't got to bend my arm back twice.' He told me to keep it. And that was love, man. And I always had respect for him. 

"I've heard people and seen stuff that he's done on camera of his respect for me, and maybe that was just his sign of appreciation. We had a lot of battles against that team, so he told me to keep it. We kept it in the bank. I appreciate it."

Wayne finished with 14,345 yards and 82 touchdowns in 14 seasons. He finished with eight 1,000-yard seasons and led the NFL with 1,510 receiving yards in 2007.