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Amusing Slate piece documenting the oft-discussed King/Favre relationship with quotes that show King drift from a worshipper to a jilted lover. He equates the situation to a father talking glowingly about his child and then the kid becoming a drug addict and repeatedly lying to his father.

 

Nice find...my favorite part:

 

SI.com, Dec. 11, 2000: "If in two years, say, they want to trade me, I'd probably walk away. Retire." … And when you retire? "I'll be down in Hattiesburg. You'll never find me. You know the HBO 'Where are They Now?' segments on Inside the NFL? They'll do one on me, but they'll have to get Robert Stack, like on Unsolved Mysteries. I'll disappear."

 

He's a horrible judge of his own character.

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Amusing Slate piece documenting the oft-discussed King/Favre relationship with quotes that show King drift from a worshipper to a jilted lover. He equates the situation to a father talking glowingly about his child and then the kid becoming a drug addict and repeatedly lying to his father.

 

Nice find...my favorite part:

 

SI.com, Dec. 11, 2000: "If in two years, say, they want to trade me, I'd probably walk away. Retire." … And when you retire? "I'll be down in Hattiesburg. You'll never find me. You know the HBO 'Where are They Now?' segments on Inside the NFL? They'll do one on me, but they'll have to get Robert Stack, like on Unsolved Mysteries. I'll disappear."

 

He's a horrible judge of his own character.

 

I just think its funny that we are giving him so much crap for not being able to make up his mind. I've brought this up in a different thread a while back, but I remember Troy Aikman's retirement and how upset he was about the fact that he couldn't play football anymore. Not that he is choosing to retire, but being physically knocked out of the game for good. If he wants to play, so be it. While Farve hasn't helped his own cause, but the media has made this into what it is and we ate it up. 10 years ago we would not have seen what we see today.

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I just think its funny that we are giving him so much crap for not being able to make up his mind. I've brought this up in a different thread a while back, but I remember Troy Aikman's retirement and how upset he was about the fact that he couldn't play football anymore. Not that he is choosing to retire, but being physically knocked out of the game for good. If he wants to play, so be it. While Farve hasn't helped his own cause, but the media has made this into what it is and we ate it up. 10 years ago we would not have seen what we see today.

 

You are pretending this is genuinely about a guy who can't make up his mind and regrets retirement. That's nonsense.

 

He has gone out of his way to avoid training camp 2 years in a row, playing the aw shucks routine about indecision. In every team sport if a player skips practice he is criticized.

 

And Troy Aikman's retirement has nothing to do with this story. 10 years ago, and much longer before that, the media and those who consume that media would have discussed at length a story of a guy retiring, unretiring, retiring, unretiring, switching teams and skipping practice.

 

Your theory has big holes.

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I just think its funny that we are giving him so much crap for not being able to make up his mind. I've brought this up in a different thread a while back, but I remember Troy Aikman's retirement and how upset he was about the fact that he couldn't play football anymore. Not that he is choosing to retire, but being physically knocked out of the game for good. If he wants to play, so be it. While Farve hasn't helped his own cause, but the media has made this into what it is and we ate it up. 10 years ago we would not have seen what we see today.

 

You are pretending this is genuinely about a guy who can't make up his mind and regrets retirement. That's nonsense.

 

He has gone out of his way to avoid training camp 2 years in a row, playing the aw shucks routine about indecision. In every team sport if a player skips practice he is criticized.

 

And Troy Aikman's retirement has nothing to do with this story. 10 years ago, and much longer before that, the media and those who consume that media would have discussed at length a story of a guy retiring, unretiring, retiring, unretiring, switching teams and skipping practice.

 

Your theory has big holes.

 

There is no theory. My point is who cares, move on, talk about something else.

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jersey cubs fan

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I just think its funny that we are giving him so much crap for not being able to make up his mind. I've brought this up in a different thread a while back, but I remember Troy Aikman's retirement and how upset he was about the fact that he couldn't play football anymore. Not that he is choosing to retire, but being physically knocked out of the game for good. If he wants to play, so be it. While Farve hasn't helped his own cause, but the media has made this into what it is and we ate it up. 10 years ago we would not have seen what we see today.

 

You are pretending this is genuinely about a guy who can't make up his mind and regrets retirement. That's nonsense.

 

He has gone out of his way to avoid training camp 2 years in a row, playing the aw shucks routine about indecision. In every team sport if a player skips practice he is criticized.

 

And Troy Aikman's retirement has nothing to do with this story. 10 years ago, and much longer before that, the media and those who consume that media would have discussed at length a story of a guy retiring, unretiring, retiring, unretiring, switching teams and skipping practice.

 

Your theory has big holes.

 

There is no theory. My point is who cares, move on, talk about something else.

 

You are theorizing that this is just some media creation. It is not. It's a former star football player finagling the system and doing whatever he can to avoid practice, and a coach allowing him because he's desperate for help.

 

Your "point" is rather pointless. Talk about what? Training camp just ended and Favre just signed with a team he said he wasn't going to sign with. Why can't people talk about that? It's rather silly to try and pretend this isn't a story and should not be discussed. If sports should be discussed at all there is absolutely no reason why this should not be part of that discussion.

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rumor is that he only "retired" from the Jets to save them the cap hit

 

He wanted to be with the Vikings all along. If the Vikes were to trade for him the Jets would have lost their next 3 1st round picks to the Packers I believe. In my opinion this was well orchestrated by all parties to get him to Minnesota. The Jets were moving on with Sanchez, and Favre still wanted to play, so he fake retired (again), and then played the "aww shucks I'm thinking about coming back card" again.

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Two years? Wow.

 

That's what I said.

 

 

This seems like a case where the rich pro athlete sure didn't receive any breaks.

 

Actually he did! And he freaking turned it down...that's the hilarious part. He turned down an earlier plea deal that would've been 3 months.

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Two years? Wow.

 

That's what I said.

 

 

This seems like a case where the rich pro athlete sure didn't receive any breaks.

 

Actually he did! And he freaking turned it down...that's the hilarious part. He turned down an earlier plea deal that would've been 3 months.

 

Oh that's right. I have to wonder if he'll actually serve 2 years. NY tries hard to have an image of being strongly anti-gun (and it should). But it seems like people get the figurative wrist slap all the time with guns being involved, and it's not even when they shoot themselves.

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Two years? Wow.

 

That's what I said.

 

 

This seems like a case where the rich pro athlete sure didn't receive any breaks.

 

This is funny because I read both of these posts as if you were talking about Brett Favre's 2-year deal, and Jersey's post confused the hell out of me.

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