Brett Favre Retiring. Re-Re-Re-Retiring.  Maybe.

On Cowherd’s show he pointed out that Favre’s last play at 3 of his 4 teams was an INT. Sure that makes sense, but it’s too amusing not to repeat. And if memory serves me correctly, two of those three were in the playoffs. He’s the ultimate NFL tease.

More annoying to the most casual of NFL fans is the sports media’s addiction to devoting hours and hours to announcing, analyzing, and decrying each move this yokel makes throughout the summer. Then they complain about something that they use to fill hours of broadcast time.

This is sort of similar to the Tebow thing. At first, I could separate the endless coverage of him from my opinion of him. Then Tebow starts playing to the cameras. He crowns his career playin Mr. Weepy when he loses to Alabama last year. He separates himself from his team to go all Tammy Faye for the sideline cameras.

The media eats it up like a dog lapping up vomit. And we get to watch and listen!

Great points, Roma.
 
I’ve only written two pieces about Favre since 2008 and that’s two more than I would like since even complaining about Favre is fuel to the media fire.

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I recall reading that somewhere. That’s a fitting legacy for a guy the media was trying to crown as the greatest QB of all time before the New Orleans game.
 
And then they were reminded why he has one Super Bowl win….

The rush to break news is beyond comical at this point. Unless I’m mistaken, there are no direct quotes from Favre, Childress, etc. The same folks that complain about him changing his mind are the ones “quoting” anonymous sources.

Conference realignment, IMO

Desmond Howard as the Super Bowl MVP that time, right?

Correctomundo.

I look forward to Desmond’s analysis of the college game this Fall. He brings a certain jabbering incoherence and tightly gripped irrelevance to every discussion that pleases me.

He played the game you know! Heisman. SB MVP!

Scip – great stuff. You are making fun of Favre and the media. You are a godsend, not a contributing factor.

I love Favre, and I love the drama. It’s shit like this that keeps me watching the boring-ass NFL. It’s my version of reality tv.

And it’s going to be fucking awesome when he reports to camp…. on October 1st. Just watch.

You had me at “least favorite drama queen.”

Amen.

To be clear, and I think Scipio knows this, I was not lumping him in with the “sports media.” This piece is about the only entertaining thing I’ve ever consumed regarding Favre (whose name the media can’t even pronounce!).

I understand the hate of the drama queen…..but the man won a super bowl and threw the most touchdowns in NFL history. I just think its funny to hate on a 40 year old NFL QB who took his team to the NFC championship last year.

This may be the best example ever of NOT knowing when to call it quits.

RomaVicta’s mention of the media lapping it up like a dog eating vomit reminded me of a recent “Family Guy” episode where Stewie and Brian are locked in a bank vault. It’s not for the faint of heart. Brian is “forced” to eat Stewie’s diaper poop, then vomits, then eats the vomit. It was one of the most vile things I’ve seen on commercial TV.

Stewie = media sports darlings; Brian = media.

He’s Roger Clemens

Ed Werder says Favre told him that if he’s healthy, he’ll play.

Ha ha ha ha!

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED??!!

Funny and not much this Vikings fan can object to. Maybe this:

“And Viking Fan deserved it for clutching the Favre asp to their breast and thinking it wouldn’t strike.”

Any true Vikings fan has an expectation of colossal disappointment embedded deep in their DNA. I lament near misses that I did not yet exist to agonize over. Amusingly Minnesotans as a fanbase are very much the girl enamored with the alcoholic serial abuser. Of course there are the steady, responsible, dependable Twins who are the non-judgmental shoulder to cry on after another cracked lip and black eye and then we happily leave them coughing in a cloud of white smoke when Ragnar roars up in his T-Top Trans Am.

Such will be the case again when Farve unretires in a couple weeks.

In fact, Sterger claims that, in one of the photos Favre allegedly sent her, he’s masturbating — while wearing a pair of Crocs.

Ha. Favre pulled The Sizzlechest.

The lil’ gunslinger!

Hey Jenn, I told Percy I’d do this…

“— while wearing a pair of Crocs.”

Oh there’s no coming back from that.

I wish I could work up enough interest in the NFL to give a fuck what Brett Favre does, but I really can’t.