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Enough already
I think that was it. I heard it. I'm sure of it this time. Brett Favre just clipped his toenails. You can read all about it right now on ESPN.com.Isn't it nauseating how inundated we've been with this -- hang on, he flushed again -- Brett Favre drama. The guy is a football player. Believe it or not, he's human. Oh, and it's also July.
Brett Favre held a press conference on Mar. 6. He wore a white button-up shirt and cried. He said he could still play. Great. I'm sure he still can.
If you mistook that tearful retirement as truly the end of an era, shame on you. It wasn't going to be true back then, and obviously it isn't all that true now.
Since that Mar. 6 presser, nearly 77 percent of Favre's bodily functions have been documented, and I'm pretty sure there's a running chart on ESPN.com to detail everything he's said and to whom over the past three months. Mark Schlereth probably has the thing memorized.
Seriously, an ESPN.com search for stories involving Brett Favre and retirement yielded 53 hits since that Mar. 6 press conference. That's ridiculous.
A week or so ago, I heard on the Scott Van Pelt show (Broadcast on the second of Dan Snyder's seemingly endless radio empire) the primary reason that I should care. “It's Brett Favre,” Van Pelt said. He's one of -- if not the most -- polarizing figure in the sports world today. I know Van Pelt didn't use those exact words, but the "It's Brett Favre" excuse sounds like it's coming from someone who's drinking the Kool-Aid.
Sure, I care where Favre plays next season. I think the storylines are extremely interesting. I'm just not going to plan my night around watching Favre's interview with Greta Van Susteren of Fox News.
(An admission of guilt: so curiosity got the best of me and I clicked over once, but it was once and only once. All I saw were commercials. I swear.)
In all seriousness, it's my sincere wish that our obsession with the NFL didn't exist as much as it does, or at least we wouldn't be subjected to the amount of non-important garbage that we are.
Prior to that Mar. 6 press conference, Brett Favre was taking with him a glorious legacy and was perhaps considered one of the five best quarterbacks of all time.
Were the Green Bay Packers supposed to stand idly by and fawn over Favre? Were they supposed to halt operations both when he makes his decision to retire and then his decision to come back?
I have feelings on both sides, and it's a delicate line here because I don't question so much the posturing between the two as much as I'm miffed by the overall obsession of the thing.
Both Favre and the Packers could've done more. Both have made mistakes and both continue to act like 8 year olds. It's really sick, which is ironic because I just read the latest headline on ESPN.com: Favre Coughs Twice This Afternoon.
Oh no, I hope he's not sick. Better read up on it.
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