Brett Favre True to Form Even in Retirement

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Published: August 3, 2009

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... The man literally reduced to me to tears last spring when he announced he wasn't sure he had the passion anymore.

I don't mean "Oh Leonardo is frozen and the lifeboats are coming" tears (Wait, did I just admit to crying watching Titanic?) No, I was sobbing and heaving because the man who taught me how to love the game, the player who made me proud to be a quarterback, didn't have the passion anymore.

I didn't fault him for wanting to come back and play. I got it. No one in the history of sports loved to play anything more than Brett Favre loved to play football. I couldn't possibly begrudge him the opportunity to play. I didn't even fault him for wanting to stick it to Ted Thompson whose stubbornness, it seemed at the time, forced Brett to want to come back with the Vikings.

If Favre was going to come back, he was going to come back guns blazing at the man who done...

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