Word is Brett Favre is retiring

So we’ve been down this road quite a few times. But multiple sources are claiming…claiming mind you, that Brett Favre is retiring. Brad Childress was asked earlier if he knew anything about it but he was clueless about the situation, as he is with everything else football related. Favre is expected to have a press conference later on this afternoon to make the announcement official.

To be honest, it would be nice if the biggest ego in sports bowed out. However I won’t believe it until I watch the Vikings play the Saints in the season opener and he’s not out there. Even then I don’t know if I’d believe he wouldn’t hold another press conference to tell the world he’s not sure if he’s not sure he’ll ever play football again.

Quite frankly I’m getting sick of Brett Favre. He had an excellent year last year there’s no doubt about it. I even think it was the best year he’s ever had. But I mean c’mon pal, quit stringing everyone along. You have zero credibility when it comes to what you say about whether you’ll retire or play another year. He can have 30 press conferences from now until the season opener and I’ll still have my doubts.

Here’s the biggest problem I have with this whole situation. Brett Favre has had several press conferences where he let’s the word out so the whole sports media world is hanging off what he’s going to say. And you can bet he knows this. Yet he still plays into it like there’s nothing else in this world going on that’s bigger than whether he’s done playing football or not. Not since the days of Rick Henderson have I seen someone feed there ego this much. And even Ricky Henderson would tell you that Ricky Hendersons ego isn’t that big.

Now he’s going to have another press conference to announce his retirement, maybe, and nobody is going to believe him. Anyone familiar with the story of the boy who cried wolf? So why have a press conference? Because Brett Favre can’t handle not having his name flashed on ESPN and the NFL Network and every front page of every sports section of every newspaper in North America.

So here we are, having to put up with another Brett Favre press conference, even though nobody will believe a word that comes out of his mouth. But like good NFL fans we will appease him and go along with him and spend the next few weeks talking about how great he was and watching all the highlights of his career on tv. Then, when the time is right. Favre will swoop down and tell all the Vikings fans to fear not, for he will play one more year even though he doesn’t think his ankle can handle it, covering his ass just in case he has a shithouse year. And I thought wrestling was the male version of a soap opera.

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