We aren’t going to get out of here without something April Fools-related, however lame we find the holiday.

(*not impressed* (guttural sound))

Mike Florio of PRO FOOTBALL TALK reported this morning, with a straight keyboard, that Jason Taylor had retired from professional football: “Miami Dolphins defensive end Jason Taylor, currently a contestant on that showcase for show business has-beens and wannabes known as Dancing with the Stars, will announce on Tuesday night’s broadcast his retirement from the National Football League.”

Since it was Florio’s first post out of the box, we found it a little suspicious, and didn’t mention it. Subsequently, the SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL’s Ethan Skolnick, who is covering the NFL owner’s meetings up the road in West Palm Beach, reports that a couple reporters did fall for the *gag* and asked Fins GM Jeff Ireland about it.

Ireland’s response: “HAR HAR!”

Actually, that wasn’t his response, April Fools! Skolnick in his blog this morning:

11:10 a.m. update on the Jason Taylor hoax, mentioned above: here is the Pro Football Talk admission that it was an April Fool’s joke. PFT is missing the point on this. What was interesting to me? Not that a couple of media members briefly fell for it. Rather, that when one of those writers approached Jeff Ireland, the GM didn’t just laugh it off. He said he had to check it out. That should tell you something about the nature of the situation.

Eventually Ireland learned of the hoax. We don’t know what’s more interesting: how seriously media members take PFT now. Or, with this evidence, how apparent it is that the Dolphins don’t think Taylor is seriously considering carrying on with the team.