Retirement
On August 6, 2005, Gannon officially retired from football and joined CBS television as an NFL analyst. He was inducted into the University of Delaware athletics hall of fame the same year.
For his career accolades, Gannon was named the twenty-eighth greatest quarterback of the modern era by Football Nation.
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