Monday, July 14, 2008

Who Would Have Guessed


That Jesse Ventura is more sensible than Brett Favre? I was out coaching baseball tonight so I missed the dueling mewling taking place with Larry King and Greta Van Susteren. But as near as I can tell, Jesse has decided that he'd rather be surfing or some such rather than sharing a cloakroom with Daniel Akaka, whereas our hero Brett is pretty much filled with caca.

Let's put it as simply as we can -- Brett Favre is being an ass. He's put his team, his teammates and the fans who have supported him for most of his adult life in a situation where they have to choose between him and the team that he has represented. There was never any reason for this -- he could have come back in late March and all would have been forgiven. But now it's impossible to solve this situation amicably. If the Packers reinstall Favre, they stick a shiv in the back of Aaron Rodgers. If they stay true to their original plan, they have to deal with a continuing soap opera.

Favre, God love him, has surrounded himself with sycophants. Some are in Wisconsin, some are in and around Hattiesburg, Mississippi and a fair number of them live and work in the vicinity of Bristol, Connecticut. Like ZZ Top, he's bad, he's nationwide. But what Brett really needs aren't sycophants. What he needs is someone to tell him the truth.

Both Greta Van Susteren and I are graduates of Xavier High School. She failed to tell Brett the truth tonight. Even though they don't encourage the use of foul language at XHS, they do encourage us to tell the truth, so it's incumbent upon me to say what my fellow alumna could not.

Brett, you're full of shit. Take a step back, look at the damage you are causing your team and your legacy. Take a deep breath, slowly back away and go back to Hattiesburg before it's too late. We'll see you in Canton in 5 years.

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