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Brett Favre is Going Out, Hard
As the cart rolled toward the Gillette Stadium tunnel, Brett Favre was stretched out and tended to by trainers. It wasn’t his elbow this time. Not the fractures in his his foot or heel, either. No, it was a nasty, bloody gash to his a chin, courtesy of a New England defensive end Myron Pryor.
Something that happens every Sunday of the NFL season happened to Brett Favre for the first time in 20 years playing this game. It was so historic, momentous and emotional that Patriots fans actually booed the battered quarterback as he was taken away.
That’s when a moment of clarity struck the 41-year-old grandfather who just can’t leave the game he loves.
“I thought to myself for a brief second, ‘What in the world am I doing?’ ” Favre said Sunday.
Funny. That’s what most of us have been thinking on Favre’s behalf the last few weeks Read More >>
Brett Favre Unbecoming of the NFL’s Personal Conduct Policy
This Brett Favre-Jenn Sterger mess is another black eye for the NFL. It’s also an opportunity.
If Favre behaved as he’s alleged to have behaved toward Jenn Sterger during the otherwise forgettable time both spent as employees of the New York Jets, then he’s probably guilty of sexual harassment in the workplace and certainly guilty of acting like an ass. And as seriously as NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell needs to take the first possibility, the acting-like-an-ass thing is the big-picture concern he needs to address.
The specifics behind the relentless parade of NFL behavior cases — illegal gun possession, drunk driving, sexual harassment — are all serious issues in their own right. Taken together they illustrate the underlying problem, which is that these players, regardless of background or circumstances, are a bunch of arrogant clowns who think they can do anything they want and get away with it.
The Favre case, thanks to its timing and the height of its profile (Favre and the Vikings are playing the Jets in New York on Monday night), offers Goodell a chance to use the personal conduct policy to deliver a strong message. And he needs to do just that, because right now it’s clear that the NFL’s personal conduct policy is not an effective deterrent.
Every week it’s something else. Braylon Edwards. Leroy Hill. Ben Roethlisberger. Vincent Jackson. Even Brian Cushing and Santonio Holmes’ drug suspensions, which aren’t even covered under the personal conduct policy. Nobody who’s watching this stuff could possibly think that these players have the policy in mind when they make decisions about the way they live their lives, and until they do, it is not going to be as effective as it needs to be. Read More >>
The Hard Decision that Favre Made, for the Love of the Game
39 year old NFL quarterback is going it another round with a agreement between Brett Favre and none other then the Minnesota Vikings.
“I felt I did everything I possibly could do to get where I need to be,” Favre said at a news conference Tuesday. “You’re 39, your arm may not feel like it did at 21. But the pieces are in place that you don’t have to do that much and I agree with that.
“If they were willing to take that chance, I was, too.”
When your not ready to throw in the towel and still have a love and passion for the game, can you blame Favre from continuing to build on his passion.
“I don’t know how I’ll feel a year from now, five years from now, but I didn’t want to say what if.”
Too many sources and opinionated fans may try to shed light on a negative reason for Farve to want to remain in the game. If anything, at this point in his career he has not shown the loyalty that he may have once had to a particular team. He is a class act player that’s tough as nails and always fun to watch. A solid package that would have been sorely missed should he not have been a quarterback to set a standard in the game of football.
That Path has now lead him to the Minnesota Vikings.
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