3 Months Later...
Sunday, January 2, 2011
As morbid as this may be to Brett Favre's fan base, it is creative and comical in its accurate portrayal of the final years of Favre's football career. Might the rest of his life consist of indecisive and regrettable decisions that clog the media year after year or will he finally put all the omnipresent retirement talk to rest and live his life in private? Only time will tell. The first article is an obituary, followed by his indecision. Enjoy.
Posted on Sunday, January 02, 2011 by Unknown
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As a diehard fan of Brett Favre let me first say that it was the wrong decision to come back this year, not because the he played poorly and the vikings were unsuccessful, but because clearly his aged and injury-wracked body could no longer withstand the pounding of an NFL season. Seemingly every big hit Favre took this year resulted in an injury to some part of his body.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, I just want to clarify for the many Favre haters who are reveling in his unceremonious final retirement that their beef never really was with Favre but rather with the colossal 24-7 media machine that has come to define all professional sports. Constant live coverage on ESPN and the internet requires a steady supply of stories, topics, and scapegoats to be debated on PTI, Around the Horn, or maybe just your favorite blogsite. Brett cannot control his coverage in sports news media more so than Greg Oden or Sebastian Telfair, boys crowned as the next great generation of the NBA before they were old enough to buy porn. It has become one of the biggest challenges in the life of today's professional athletes and high school hopefuls; balancing the expectations and attention of the media with their own sensibilities and life decisions. If any of us regular folk were to become as famous as a Brett Favre, I would hope we would have the personal integrity not to cave into popular demand.
Some people would like Brett to be remembered as the teetering flip flopper who changed teams and broke promises at the end of his career, but any real Favre fan and real football fan will judge him and appreciate for what he did on the playing field. If you didn't like his playing style or youthful exuberance or refusal to let his teammates down even in the face of serious injury and bodily harm, well fine but that's probably your problem, not his.
Well some would say that he was right in coming back because he had an astounding statistical year last year but at the same time he is clearly fragile and too overwhelmed with injuries at this point. That said, he is done.
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