Brett Favre: The Dick Cheney Of The NFL?

5:39 pm EST May 15th, 2009 | Sports | 9 Comments

Sometimes you just need to hang it up and go away when your time has passed.

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9 Responses to “Brett Favre: The Dick Cheney Of The NFL?”

  1. Illanoy Gal says:
    May 15, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    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.

  2. Jay Tea says:
    May 15, 2009 at 9:50 pm

    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.

  3. jr says:
    May 15, 2009 at 11:22 pm

    Favre has Dissociative identity disorder with his constant retiring/ not retiring yearly shtick

  4. Jaim says:
    May 16, 2009 at 4:03 am

    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.

  5. Repack Rider says:
    May 16, 2009 at 5:42 am

    [Carter] was a colossal failure as president, and should have just quietly disappeared.

    The Nobel Peace Prize is overrated? How many do you have?

  6. Jay Tea says:
    May 16, 2009 at 7:11 am

    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.

  7. Oliver Willis says:
    May 16, 2009 at 11:12 am

    Shorter Jay Tea: No conservative douchebags have won the Nobel Peace Prize, so it suuuuuucks.

  8. Jay Tea says:
    May 16, 2009 at 4:50 pm

    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.

  9. Parthenon says:
    May 17, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    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.