Brett Favre has become the new Jay-z/Michael Jordan for the NFL, recently announcing his decision to return for yet another season. What a surprise.
Favre has been toying with media outlets all over the country for the past three seasons, using every off-season since 2007 to contemplate retirement. And every time, towards the end of training camp, Favre would be back in uniform.
He wasn’t retiring people; he was just “tired.” Tired as in tired of going to training camp and off-season workouts.
Entering his 20th season, Favre will exercise the last year of his two-year, 25-million dollar contract and play quarterback for another season. Favre will be 41 in October, and the allure of a possible Super Bowl appearance has brought him back to Minneapolis.
Last season remains a constant memory, an overtime loss to the eventual super bowl champion New Orleans Saints in the NFC Championship game. A game the Vikings probably should have one but a lapse in clock management and a Favre interception later, it seemed only fitting the team from Cajun Land would win a ring for a city still recovering from Hurricane Katrina. A game that forced Bret Favre to swallow a life-size Pride pill.
At 40, Favre came off one of his best years with the Vikings, throwing for 34 touchdowns and only eight interceptions. It was only practical for him to return and exercise his option for the last year of his contract.
The whole retire/stay limbo is like the boy who cried wolf; once you start getting people to keep believing you will do something, only to see the person back out, they will no longer believe you when you contemplate the decision again.
People stopped listening to the boy who cried wolf, and fans and media will start to stop believing Favre’s retire/stay limbo gig.
Because as of now, Favre can easily tilt his head back and crawl under the bar, out of the limbo.
I think that Favre is still capable of competing at the NFL level, despite recent ankle surgery and shoulder surgery last season. Last season’s four-to-one touchdown to interception ratio speaks for itself.
He will continue to play until his legs give out, or someone crashes into the HHH Metrodome and then succumbs to burning down all of the Vikings training facilities. Okay maybe not, but Favre will be here for at least one more season. Just don’t be surprised when the boy cries wolf and you find out he’s coming out of his 4th retirement.
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