It’s a sad day in the NFL. One of the greatest living NFL quarterbacks is calling it quits.
Brett Favre has been a long-time favorite of mine (and everyone’s, I think). He always played with the tenacity of someone who left everything on the field at all times. He also happened to wear my favorite number. I was so pleased to see him so successful last year with such a young team and I’m glad that he’s retiring having won a Super Bowl.
Favre one of those figures in the NFL that you know will be remembered for many years to come. He’s also one of the only NFL players ever to be a significant plot point in a Farrelly Brothers movie.
Woogie: “What is Brett Favre doing here?”
Favre: “I’m in town to play the Dolphins, ya dumbass.”
Favre was a full-fledged gunslinger in a game that has become too much about finesse and contracts and not enough about heart. It was fitting that Favre played much of his career in Green Bay, arguably the most blue-collar of all NFL cities. I’m sad to see him go, but at least he goes out with dignity, on his own terms, rather than because of ongoing injuries (see: Trent Green).
Favre is the kind of guy that you wish kids would look up to rather than Eminems and Kobe Bryants of the world. Favre is everything we want our idols to be. He’ll be missed.
A self-centered former addict? How exactly is he better than Kobe? He certainly wasn’t better at his sport than Kobe is at his.
Favre = World class
Bryant = World class douche
Do you see the distinction? Truly great players elevate those around them. Bryant does not. Favre does.
Elevation? Like refusing to mentor Aaron Rogers when he got drafted? Talk about a douche.
Or did you like it more when he left the team on the hook for about the past five years with whether he would return or not because he didn’t think his teammates were championship caliber?
Favre is more of a self-centered prick than Bryant will ever be.