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10 years ago I predicted that Favre would not leave football till he suffered a season ending injury that would become career ending. It so seems that happened with the concussion he still hasn't really recovered from yet.
It's sad to see someone with so great a career end in such a cinematic disaster, but in a way, it's appropriate. Jerry Glanville in 1991 labeled him a trainwreck after barely surviving training camp with his boozing and partying, and was wrong... for 20 years until he ended as one.
Sex scandal, 2 false retirements and a season of disastrous play... with a backdrop of a collapsing metrodome symbolically mimicing the Viking's season and a greek chorus foretelling doom for Childress. Favre tempted fate one too many times, and he has now ended as a punchline that will take years to clean off before people remember him as the paragon he once was with the Packers. Erased, except to Vikings fans will be that glorious single season where he almost made it to the super bowl one last time.
As Beethoven said as his last words:
"Friends, applaud. The comedy is finished."
It's sad to see someone with so great a career end in such a cinematic disaster, but in a way, it's appropriate. Jerry Glanville in 1991 labeled him a trainwreck after barely surviving training camp with his boozing and partying, and was wrong... for 20 years until he ended as one.
Sex scandal, 2 false retirements and a season of disastrous play... with a backdrop of a collapsing metrodome symbolically mimicing the Viking's season and a greek chorus foretelling doom for Childress. Favre tempted fate one too many times, and he has now ended as a punchline that will take years to clean off before people remember him as the paragon he once was with the Packers. Erased, except to Vikings fans will be that glorious single season where he almost made it to the super bowl one last time.
As Beethoven said as his last words:
"Friends, applaud. The comedy is finished."
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