Fav-ruh
I took in this year’s NFL conference championship games with @C_Derksen at his place yesterday. What a great pair of games. The Jets definitely made a game of it but the Colts are just plain better. Peyton Manning still drives me up the wall to watch with his non-stop audibles but I won’t take anything away from the guy on the field. He’s one of the few quarterbacks in the NFL today that can put a clutch drive together and move the ball down the field when he needs to. The talent he’s surrounded with doesn’t hurt, either.
I can’t remember the last time I was as into a game as much as I was into the Saints against the Vikings. I’ll cop to schadenfreude and admit that I spend the whole game hoping that Brett Favre would blow it for his team and end the season on a downer. To be completely honest, until the final interception, Favre played as well yesterday as he did in any of his career performances that earned him MVP accolades. Had the coin toss gone the other way I have no doubt that the Vikings would have won. That being said, fate is cruel and overtime coin tosses are part of the deal. I sincerely hope that this is the end of Favre’s NFL shenanigans. I have absolutely no problem with older players making a living. If a player in his autumn years can get a team to believe in him and pay him based more on past achievements than future potential then more power to him. What I have issue with is the way in which he manipulated three franchises over the course of the last two seasons to get his way. His behaviour should be the definitive case for a player being compelled to sit out of the league for an entire season after announcing his retirement.