The Internet has brought me some sad news this morning. It told me that Bret Favre has retired. His name was the most recognizable football players name to me as a child. As I grew up and started watching football more I always looked forward to watching the Packers.
My favorite thing about Favre was how happy he seemed to be while playing the game. A lot of times those guys act too serious for getting paid to play a game they love. Favre though, I never got that feeling from him. One memory that sticks out from this last season is when the Packers were playing that game in the snow and he started throwing snowballs at people on the field. Although he was older than the average age of a quarterback he never acted like it.
His true love of the game is apparent in the way he played the game. He went for plays that others would have not wanted to take the risk on. And he was a fierce competitor when it came down to it.
He retires with 5,377 career completions in 8,758 attempts for 61,655 yards, 442 touchdowns and 288 interceptions, just passing Dan Marino's touchdown mark last season. Finishing with a streak of 253 consecutive regular-season starts, that’s 275 if you include playoff games.
Not too shabby.
3 comments:
Im not a packer fan but I feel bad for the guy. The playoff game against the giants was awful in that cold, everytime they showed favre he looked like he was gonna die. Even coughlin looked a little a better and hes got some years on Brett. I watched Favre cry on national T.V. this morning quoted saying " I keep hearing about MY acomplishments, but its a team effort."
What a great set of clips! I am going to miss that guy.
An interesting take considering I wasn’t too big a Brett Favre fan. I really like the video clip and the way you described how he made you like football more.
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