BRETT FAVRE IS AN ALIEN
By mark rogers
January 24, 2010
After watching the Vikings treat the football like a wet bar of soap, it was amazing that they even had a chance to win late.
I would be even more sad knowing that Favre's last pass of the 2009-2010 season was an interception that may have cost Minnesota the game and a chance for a Super Bowl appearance...but that's before I realized something: it's not Favre's final throw in the NFL.
He'll be back next year and the next and maybe even the next. Why you ask?
Because he's driven? No.
Because he's a competitor? No.
Because he's a great QB who isn't ready to walk away from the game? No.
It's simple really...if you just stop and think about it.
Brett Favre will be back next year and the next and maybe even the next because he is not human.
Brett Favre is an alien.
That's it. The truth's out. He's not a human. He's not a robot. He's not some sort of prehistoric relic come back to life after being frozen in the Smithsonian for a thousand years (we have pictures of him as a smaller version of the alien he has grown into).
He must be from another planet.
The guy is 40 years old. He's started 309 straight NFL games. He got absolutely leveled several times tonight and didn't miss a snap. His whole right side was bruised last week and it didn't even faze him.
I don't even care about his stats or how many NFL records he has. That stuff doesn't even matter anymore.
What's more amazing is what he does week in and week out at 40 YEARS OLD!!!
Let's try to put 309 games into some sort of perspective.
I played football for nine years. From sixth grade to my sophomore year in college. A total of 93 games. And I didn't even hardly play 10 of those (my junior year when I backed up John Dutton's son at OLB at Plano).
Nine years is a long time. 93 games is 30% of 309.
309 games is just over 19 full NFL seasons (at 16 games a pop) if you don't count in playoff games (which he's played a ton of and has completed more post-season passes than anyone in history.
309 games is just under 13 DAYS of football...not counting overtime.
If 309 games were monthly payments on a car, you'd be paying the car off for 26 years.
I don't know how else to say it...309 games...no, 309 CONSECUTIVE games is the most ridiculous and impressive stat in all of sports.
I'm serious.
You'd have to make some kind of serious case to convince me of another stat that's more impressive. And there a lot of impressive stats out there...
Nolan Ryan's 7 No-hitters.
Emmitt's 18,355.
Hank's 756.
Kareem's 38,387.
Michael's 30.1.
Cy Young's 511.
I could go on and on. 309 (and counting by the way) is the most impressive and most likely to never be broken in my opinion.
But there is one caveat that needs to be noted in this case, and it should be noted with an asterisk for all time.
It's something that's unfair to all the great sports heroes in history. Unfair to Nolan, Emmitt, Michael, Kareem, Cy Young, Hammerin' Hank and all the rest.
An unfair advantage that all those other guys could never fully compete with.
It's the fact that they're humans.
And Brett Favre is an alien.
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