I Love Attention

What if Brett Farve wanted to come out of retirement again?  Oh wait he does or at least maybe he's just thinking he wants to because he is so in love with himself that he likes hearing his name on TV.  Or maybe he wants to come back and loves hearing his name on TV so thats why he feels the need to drag it on for what seems like forever.  Maybe he's trying to start a tradition the second or is this the third or fourth annual "Brett Farve might retire, might want to play again media frenzy."  This could be a marketing chance for those who care, they can make t-shirts, hats and cover it every 2 minutes on ESPN.  

I can understand at the end of one season if you thought you might be at the end of your career then ok I'll let you have that and you can go home and think about it and drag it on all you want before you decide.  Remember when Magic Johnson retired the first time?  He went home in the middle of his great career after being diagnosed with HIV.  After four and a half seasons in retirement no HIV was found in his blood anymore so he tried to make a comeback.  Magic played in 32 regular season games and four playoff games during the '95-'96 season and at the end of that season realized that he wasn't the player he needed to be.  So what did he do?  That's right he packed his stuff and went home for good.  He didn't go home and keep threatening to come back he just stayed home.  Maybe Brett Farve doesn't like his home.

I find it hard to believe that people enjoy following this chaos year after year.  I haven't talked to one person who cares about this as much as ESPN.  ESPN has turned this into a joke the past few years.  You turn on Sportscenter and on the left side of the screen right after the NBA Playoff scores you see the name Brett Farve.  Then we go straight to John Clayton and he tells us yeah Brett Farve is thinking about coming back even though he said he didn't want to play last week.  Today we got to see a Brett Farve, New York Jets time line.  We got to see him have his press conference then when they beat the Titans and the time line ended with Brett Farve saying I think I'm done.  If this was the real world I think we would call him a liar.  But in Brett Farve land he can annoy all of us everyday and for some reason we can't get away from him.  

Farve ended the 2007 season with a great run into the playoffs and we all thought what a great way to end a great career.  No thats not good enough I better come back and play like an old man for the Jets.  The question now is how do we remember Brett Farve.  I'll remember him now as the guy who wouldn't go away even though he got old.  Farve set every record you could think of while in Green Bay and when they didn't want to have him jack the organization around he got mad and demanded a trade.  Not only did he make all of the people that idolized him mad he went to the Jets and had no chemistry with his teammates.  At the end of the season the once great leader was called selfish and wasn't a team player.  How can you go to a new team and not have to work out with your new teammates.   If he goes to the Vikings I hope they lose 16 games and I hope that they are all Farve's fault.  He's wanting to play for this new team and not be part of the team because of what he has accomplished in his career in Green Bay.  

My thoughts on this are Brett Farve used to be a great quaterback and now all he is, is a washed up hack as far as I'm concerned.  Brett do all of us a favor and GO HOME leave us alone.  I only want to see Brett Farve 2 more times, once for when they retire his jersey in Green Bay, and then when he gets inducted into the Hall of Fame wearing a Packers or Jets or Vikings, or maybe we will get to go through all this again and he might wear someone else's jersey.  Again GO HOME...