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Brett Favre and The Dilemma Of Pre-Mature Retiring

 
It must be the middle of summer. You want to know how I know? It's simple. Fox News...oops, I mean ESPN has the spin machine working. ESPN has the daunting challenge of filling a full hour for Sports Center with only one true sport in season. After they give you all the baseball highlights, they still have about twenty minutes to fill. So what do they do? One word: Filler. It's like your favorite recording artist who doesn't have enough good songs to fill an entire album so they throw in a couple of songs that even they know are no good. That is what ESPN is doing with the "Brett Favre Saga." So after the completely pointless " Title-town" feature they are running, they feel the need to throw Bret Favre under the Green Bay Packers Team Bus.  I feel that if Brett Favre would have claimed to feel his "itch" during the NBA playoffs this wouldn't be the debacle it has turned out to be. Players of Favre's stature have done this before without the scrutiny that he is facing. When Michael Jordan ... (link)

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