This time he means it. Seriously. For real real. Not for play play.Stop me if you've heard this one before: Brett Favre is calling it a career, telling reporters earlier this week "I'm done."
Don't get too excited - Favre says he will finish the season for the Vikings, lost though it may be. Making such an announcement midseason is a big departure from past Favre retirements, which typically involved an offseason-long standoff, ridiculous amounts of flip-flopping, and/or a convoy of teammates being sent to his house to recruit him back to his own team. Is it really a surprise, though? Favre is 41 years old, nursing a myriad of injuries and health problems (the latest of which is apparently malaria, of all things) and playing quite poorly for an awful team. It's no wonder he wants to retire now.
However, I think we all know what will happen come this offseason. Certain networks , and particularly a certain mustachioed reporter for whom certain totally awesome websites are named, will camp out in Hattiesburg, watch a grandfather throw passes to high school kids, and the non-answers about "the itch to play" will flow into non-news stories for months. And not until next August, the month when Favre's season traditionally has begun the last couple of years, will we truly know for sure if he plans to continue playing or not.
Even at 41, history tells us we can't rule it out.
Don't get too excited - Favre says he will finish the season for the Vikings, lost though it may be. Making such an announcement midseason is a big departure from past Favre retirements, which typically involved an offseason-long standoff, ridiculous amounts of flip-flopping, and/or a convoy of teammates being sent to his house to recruit him back to his own team. Is it really a surprise, though? Favre is 41 years old, nursing a myriad of injuries and health problems (the latest of which is apparently malaria, of all things) and playing quite poorly for an awful team. It's no wonder he wants to retire now.
However, I think we all know what will happen come this offseason. Certain networks , and particularly a certain mustachioed reporter for whom certain totally awesome websites are named, will camp out in Hattiesburg, watch a grandfather throw passes to high school kids, and the non-answers about "the itch to play" will flow into non-news stories for months. And not until next August, the month when Favre's season traditionally has begun the last couple of years, will we truly know for sure if he plans to continue playing or not.
Even at 41, history tells us we can't rule it out.
1 comment:
I heard he's questionable with a case of scurvy.
In all honesty though, and I may be dumb for thinking this, I think he's done.
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