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Brett Favre: The Dick Cheney Of The NFL?
May 15th, 2009
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I’ve been a fan of Brett for many years. That said, there comes a time when one has to face the inevitable. You hang up the shoes, put the football in the trophy case, and throw away the tube of face paint. As a fan, it just hurts so much to watch someone past his prime time try to recapture his 20’s. It ain’t gonna happen, Brett. Please don’t embarrass yourself.
I was going to suggest Jimmy Carter as a better comparison, but then reconsidered. Favre (as I understand it — I don’t care about sports) was once wildly successful. Cheney held a variety of significant positions, ending up as veep. Carter… he was a colossal failure as president, and should have just quietly disappeared.
J.
Favre has Dissociative identity disorder with his constant retiring/ not retiring yearly shtick
I can’t believe any NFL team would return his agent’s phone calls.
He’s basically flushing his legacy down the toilet, if he hasn’t already.
[Carter] was a colossal failure as president, and should have just quietly disappeared.
The Nobel Peace Prize is overrated? How many do you have?
You’re right, Repack. It’s not overrated at all.
Why, just look at some of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates:
Henry Kissinger
Anwar Sadat
Menachem Begin
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
UN Peacekeeping Forces (couldn’t attend; too busy raping refugee children)
Mikhail Gorbachev (for NOT having the Soviet Union pull a Samson)
Yasser Arafat
The United Nations and Kofi Annan
The International Atomic Energy Agency and its head, Mohamed ElBaradei (for standing back while India and Pakistan developed nuclear weapons, Libya nearly got them, and Iran and North Korea raced to see who would be the first rogue nation to get one)
Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank (whose outstanding work should have fallen under “Economics,” not peace — they showed how to help the poor AND turn a profit. The “Peace Prize” was almost an insult.)
Al Gore & The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Rumor has it the “Gore Effect” resulted in a major blizzard in Stockholm the week Gore showed up to accept his award)
In the middle of all that, Jimmy Carter. Nope, not overrated at all.
A better term is looking like “Mark of Shame” for what it’s become in the last decade or so.
J.
Shorter Jay Tea: No conservative douchebags have won the Nobel Peace Prize, so it suuuuuucks.
Actually, I’d say that the Grameen Bank’s ideology is a tad more conservative than liberal (but not really falling solidly into either side).
Also, you wanna claim Henry Kissinger? Feel free.
Back when it kinda sorta meant something, Teddy Roosevelt won it.
Other Republican winners include Frank B. Kellogg, Charles Dawes, and Elihu Root.
For Christ’s sake, Oliver, they gave it to YASSIR ARAFAT.
J.
Two brief observations:
Legacy is not something you actively cultivate, but the natural byproduct of the events of your career. You should never make a decision with your legacy in mind.
Secondly, if Brett Favre can play better and give Minnesota a better chance to win than either Tavaris Jackson or Gus Frerrote, there is no reason he shouldn’t have a job. Especially if that reason is simply that fans are bored with him.