Jim Rome who loves to stir up emotions and enflame people with half-truths said he will not ever view Favre the same way after what 'he's done'. And all because he gave a tearful retirement speech over a year ago and a few months later thought he might have something left to give and that he wanted to continue playing. Heaven forbid! Call the police he can't change his mind!
Hey Rome, no one's telling you to quit the only career you've ever had even though maybe we should if you can't give honest and unbiased feedback as a newsman. The 'Around the Horn' reporters are the same way. People are enraged because he had a tough time making a decision that would change his life forever. Like he's indecision somehow inconvenianced them. Hey, here's a thought, don't talk about it if it annoys you so much ass wipes.
Yes, everyone goes through some kind of self-denial at the end of their careers in professional sports, but then again not everyone is Brett Favre. Montana and Marino had injury after injury and their bodies just didn't do what they use too. They missed games. Steve Young and Troy Aikman were competing for most concussions. John Elway couldn't walk anymore. All great quarterbacks who walked away from the game without the decision problems, but none of them had done what #4 did for almost 20 years. Think about that; every season starting under center every single game and never once missing. He played a whole season with a broken thumb on his throwing hand and threw for over 4,o00 yards. Favre wasn't holding press conferences every week. He wasn't pulling a Jordan and retiring and coming back 3 years later and then retiring again and then coming back again. No, he knew if committed he was in it for the whole season.
People say he put Green Bay in a bad spot; B.S.! I don't see it that way at all. He gave them some great, exciting football for 15 years and a Super Bowl, and let's be honest they had a QB-in-waiting in Aaron Rogers. I say that because whether Favre came back or not, it would not affect how they draft. They didn't have to pick a QB because they already had a pretty good one. And it wouldn't change how Rogers prepared. He'd still be training to be the best QB he could be. The Packers did Brett wrong and I say this as life long cheesehead. He led the Packers to a game away from the Super Bowl and lost to the eventual Super Bowl champions in overtime so clearly he was still slinging the ball around effectively. Green Bay kicks him to the curb and then J-E-T-S and the haters there as well. Let me remind you he led the Jets to an 8-3 start before ripping the bicep in his throwing arm, which is conveniently forgotten for mud slandering purposes when they talk about how he ruined the Jets. Hardly. Let's say it one more time, HE RIPPED HIS BICEP!!! And still played. And he we are now.
All haters and idiots out there should remember, that there is no Brett Favre story if no one comes a knocking. The Vikings pursued him not the other way around. He told them early July that he didn't think he could do it and then they send a full frontal assault with player texts and coaching visits to pitch harder that he be their QB. Brett didn't do anything to Sage Rosenfels or Tarvaris Jackson or the Vikings. They wanted him! And these Sports Personalities in all their savvy intuitive sports knowledge say it's Brett's fault for the Vikings current predicament. You're a joke. No logical human being could even look at this situation and blame the Vikings problems on Favre.
These guys don't want to talk about how an era has ended. No more Iron Man. No more joyful grown up kid like play on Sundays. No more Mr. Football. Brett Favre deserves more respect from men who claim Sports Medium as their profession. A man who in is own right brought the joy of the game back to the fans.
He helped us forget about the multi-million dollar disputes among players, millionaires crying over millions with other millionaires; T.O. like behavior in the locker rooms. He took our minds away from all that selfish crap because he played the way we played in Pee-Wee and high school. They don't talk about that, it's far to positive. They'd rather tell the man to retire even though I doubt they would respond so positively if someone was telling them to quit their job as well. It's much more fun to rip a person down and slander them. But it shows the character of men who we go to for our sports information. Rome, no one cares if you look at Favre differently. 50 years from now Favre will be remembered as one of the best to ever strap them on and you, well some other jack ass will be doing what you do.
