Once again Brett Favre is in the news. He has managed to avoid most of the Minnesota Vikings summer camp while “deciding” if he was going to return for another year in football.
Now Favre is starting his second season with the Vikings and his twentieth season in the National Football League. At this point, Favre could join most of the players he entered he league with in retirement and set up and watch the games every Sunday behind the garage door of his home in Mississippi. But because of his competitive nature and his seemingly still strong abilities to win games, he is once again going to be suiting up and playing a game with violent collisions at an age that most men are reaching for the aspirin or other pain relief medication.
He is going out onto the field with men young enough to be his son. If he keeps at it, he will be playing with the sons of former teammates. This has happened a few times in baseball, even to the point where Ken Griffey, Sr got to play in the same outfield as Ken Griffey, Jr but it is the violence and speed of football that would make this even more unique an occurrence than it already is. The average NFL career is 3 years and here Favre is going into his twentieth year. He could afford to retire to his farm in Mississippi, set up his easy chair and admire his trophies. He could putter around the garage and rotate the cars and trucks that get to be inside the garage. He could open and close his garage door for hours at a time just to help the time pass.
Instead, he returns to Minnesota where he plays with young men half his age right out of college. No opening the garage door in Mississippi and taking his hunting dogs out for the afternoon for a ride in the truck. Nope. He gets to open the garage door in Minneapolis and go to practice to prepare for a season with sixteen games in seventeen weeks. The 2010 season will be the 91st season in National Football League history and at the end of the year; Favre will have played in almost 22 per cent of the total seasons in NFL history.
Brett Favre will go into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, OH when he finally does retire. There he will join other long time quarterbacks, a few of whom played into their forties like George Blanda but Blanda at the end was a back up quarterback and field goal kicker. Favre is a starting quarterback playing at the very top level. Still. Though he could be retired and watching the game behind the garage door in Mississippi, Favre is still a favorite.
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