Welcome back, sportz freaks to another edition of Z Money's Sportz Talk. Some of you might be wondering if this blog is specifically designed to cover football and football alone. Well, fear not, because Sportz Talk is your home for all kinds of sportz. Since the NFL is currently in the home stretch of the season, and with so many questions about it left unanswered, I figured who better to answer these questions than myself? For this reason, the next two posts will still be revolving around football, but after the second one you can safely look forward to me discussing all sotrs of other sportz-related topics. Which brings me to today. Every year for the past three years, there has been one burning question, one unanswered question in the hearts and minds of football fanatics across the country. Or, at least it was a burning question the first two times. But here we sit at the end of yet another NFL season, and we still find ourselves asking: "Will Breatt Favre finally retire?", "Is this the end of the line for Favre?", questions of that nature. Well, as Favre has proven twice before, no one ever truly knows the answer to those questions until the next season begins: even him. Twice now, Favre has claimed that he is leaving the game of football and finally hanging up his cleats, so to speak. But just as frequently, Favre has come back weeks, sometimes months after his original announcement to take back his claim. Why is it, exactly, that Favre has such a hard time giving it up? Is it because he truly loves the game that much? Is it pure boredom at home, with the fear of watching hundreds of guys playing the game he has left forever? Or is there something else keeping Brett Favre from calling it quits for good? Hell, Kurt Warner did it last week with no problems at all. He had no regrets, he wasn't overly emotional, and you could tell that he truly meant the words that were emanating from his mouth. So why then, does Favre have such a hard time doing the same? To me, the answer is obvious: Brett Favre longs for the childhood dream that every sportz kid has ever had. Not only to work h ard and to make it all the way to the NFL, but to ride off into the sun at the end of his career. John Elway did it, so why can't Favre? It seems to me as if good ole #4 has had a very hard time coming to terms with the fact that he has not once, but twice gotten within a game of the Super Bowl in the last three seasons, and come up short both times. And believe me, I completely understand the pain he must be feeling, and the lack of closure he must have each time he hangs 'em up without that second (yes, second: Marino had zero, just saying) Super Bowl Ring on his finger. But just how many times is he going to come back and try the same thing over and over until he finally realizes the inevitable truth: that Brett Favre's glory days have come to an end. Did he have a great season this year? Absolutely. But the issue lies further down, in that he most likely feels as if he has failed if he hasn't accomplished the storybook ending. Well, not to harp on Warner again, but again here's a guy who took his team to the championship game last season, only to lose to Pittsburgh. Then he comes back this year to give it one more go, and after one thrilling playoff victory, is unable to get the Cards back to the big game. But you don't see him complaining, do you? And do you know why that is? Simply put, Warner appreciates everything he was graced with from birth, and Favre simply does not. Does that sound a tad bit unfair? Maybe. But if Brett Favre truly appreciated the gifts he was given and the incredible ability he had to not only make it to the NFL, not only win a Super Bowl, but to come out of the game with his head on straight and the pure satisfaction of a job-well-done. No, rather, Favre feels as if it his fortune, his destiny if you will, to win the Super Bowl and retire on top of the world. News flash: Thousands of quarterbacks have come and gone in the NFL, and hundreds upon hundreds of them leave without ever coming close to the Super Bowl, let alone having half the success Favre has had in over eighteen years. To me, this just says that Favre is a selfish human being. Do i admire his talent? Definitely. Is he a Hall of Famer? No doubt about it. But the question then, is, just how far will Favre push this gig of retiring and un-retiring until the fans finally turn on him? Until his grand legacy in the NFL is forever tarnished? my advice to you, Brett, is to officially (and permanantly) retire. No one is going to bash you because you didn't finish your career in the best possible way imaginable. No one's going to think any less of your legacy in the National Football League because you didn't come out on top. That is, unless, you keep doing this. End it now, before any serious harm to your image in the NFL can be done.
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