FameCrawler : retirement

Brett Favre to Retire... Again

Whit Honea — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:02:00 GMT

According to Sports Illustrated's Peter King it is once more into the breach for Brett Favre.

You may recall that we've been through this before. Brett has a wife and kids and a sore arm and many reasons to walk away from the game he loves, but has been dragging his feet a bit.

That said I don't want to keep writing this post on his retirement, so I'm just going to recycle the last one:

~~Sixteen~~ seventeen years. That's how long Brett Favre has been at the helm of the Green Bay Packers and New York Jets storied franchises. ~~Sixteen~~ seventeen years of drama, highs, lows, scares and bruises. He is the last of his kind and one of the greatest ever. He isn't just ~~Green Bay~~ New York, he is football.

I love football, but my appreciation of Brett Favre goes beyond the playing field. His character, strength and humor have been nothing short of inspirational. He is a winner that understood it was only a game. I can't help but think that football got more from Favre than he could have ever taken from it.

There is one less gunslinger in town and it the ~~Packer's~~ Jets' loss and it is our loss. It is his family's gain. Brett Favre has retired.

Good luck, Brett, and thank you.

Brett Favre Takes Last Leap: Retirement

Whit Honea — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:29:00 GMT

Sixteen years. That's how long Brett Favre has been at the helm of the Green Bay Packers storied franchise. Sixteen years of drama, highs, lows, scares and bruises. He is the last of his kind and one of the greatest ever.

There is one less gunslinger in town and it is our loss. It is his family's gain. Brett Favre has retired.

Good luck, Brett, and thank you.

Source/Photo: USA Today

Sports Talk: NASCAR Driver Hank Parker Jr. Has the Same Investment Plan as Me

Whit Honea — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:58:00 GMT

With his racing days behind him Hank Parker has taken to other American pastimes, at least until the next election, those being hunting and religion. He also spends quite a bit of time with his family, his wife Wendy, daughters Alex, 4, and Madison, 3, and nine-month-old Andrew. Parker has big plans for Andrew, 'big' being the keyword.

"He's a tank," Parker said. "He weighed 25 pounds at three months old. He's gonna be my retirement account. He's already got a football, and I'm teaching him how to hold on to it."

This sounds suspiciously like my own retirement plan. I'm throwing every ball, musical instrument, and frivolous lawsuit I can at my kids in hope something lucrative sticks.

That's a little something I like to call sound planning.

Wish us all luck.

Photo: UNC