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Marv Levy announced his retirement last week, which ended a two-year stint as the Bills general manager. It also followed a Hall of Fame coaching career that included four straight Super Bowl appearances with Buffalo in the 1990s (damn you, Scott Norwood).

Now, though, Levy wants you to know why he retired. Simply put: he didn't love GMing enough to stick around.

"Really about midseason of this year, I decided it wasn't fulfilling enough for me," Levy said in an interview Wednesday. "My heart was out on the field. I decided there's so many other things I'd like to do."

"There were some speculations that I wanted to address after a day or two," Levy said. "One was that I had a serious illness. Absolutely, unqualifiedly no. That wasn't it at all." ...

"It really wasn't the demands of the job," Levy said. "That wasn't it at all. In fact, it was a piece of cake compared to coaching, and it's almost what I didn't like about it."

It's worth pointing out that Levy is 83 years young. And since we all have a limited time on this earth, Levy didn't want to spend his time in a dead-end job. Instead, he's got big plans: "I have an agenda, possibly mostly television and writing," Levy said. "If there's other things, great. Travel, exercise, learn a new language, and all that stuff."

Well, that's demoralizing. I'm considerably younger than 83 and don't have nearly the focus of Mr. Levy. Which probably explains a lot, I'm guessing. Touché.

Hat tip: The Fifth Down Blog