And your favorite to the win the North Division of the NFC in 2010 is now officially the Minnesota Fightin’ Favre’s.
Let me start out with a little honesty, I love the fact that Brett Favre will be playing again in 2010. In his press conference today, he said this would be his final year because he contract runs out at the end of the season, and I truly believe him. While I know that I may be in the minority for believing this legendary quarterback is in his final season, let me remind you that he is 40 years old, and we don’t know for sure if we will even have “NFL” football next season due to a possible labor dispute.
And for those who think that he is coming out of retirement for the third time in his career, he never officially retired this summer, just didn’t really make a decision for sure until recently. And who can blame him, at the first of the summer he had this third ankle surgery for bone spurs, and following his second retirement (between the Jets and Vikings), he had shoulder surgery for a torn bicep. Ouch!
Let’s put in perspective what an accomplishment playing 18 years of professional football really is, by comparing No. 4 to another great quarterback, and hall of famer, Troy Aikman. Come September, the NFL will enter its 10th season without Troy Aikman as a professional football player. Aikman is only three years older than Favre in age, and Favre was drafted only two years after Aikman. Favre played eight seasons more than a Hall of Fame quarterback, and hasn’t missed a game since starting week four of the 1992 season as a Green Bay Packer. But yet there are people out there still criticize him for waiting until the last minute to decide if he is going to play. Really?!
I personally would love to see this guy play until he is 50 years old. And for someone who has not started a game due to injury since 1992, he probably could! But I think at this point in his legendary career, he deserves to be able to decide in the middle of August if he wants to play or not. Minus a few things, such as the divorce with the Packers, it seems to me Favre is one of the most professional guys in pads that play underneath the NFL label. Brandon Marshall…Albert Haynesworth…are you paying attention? I’m just saying.
