Favre, front and center

The Favre hype is all over your TV. He is going to play the Packers next Monday and that should be awesome. But on top of it, he is coming of a game-winning TD last Sunday. It was a great throw and a better catch to beat the Niners who played a great game and should have won it. He was the story of the NFL weekend and the talking heads on TV were all sucking up to him big time. These were the same fools who were ripping him during the off-season. Of course this only proves my usual adage that two things that sound contradictory can both be true. I guess I can't blame these TV guys all that much. Favre's act during the off-season was stupid. But he is a great player and he is doing for the Vikings what they exactly want him to do. I am pretty sure they don't win that game last weekend without Favre. Regardless of what the other Vikings QBs would have or could have done during the course of the game, they definitely wouldn't have been able to do what Favre did with that fiinal drive.

I found that play still very interesting. As sports fans, we live and die by inches. If that throw was a few inches off or even if the throw was the same, but the receiver landed a few inches further away or if his defenders were a few inches closer to the ball and tapped it away, we wouldn't be hyping Brett Favre's performance in that game all that much. But the play worked out and we can't stop talking about him. Sports is such a bottom-line business that makes you the hero if you win and you are nothing special if you lose. Rest of it are mere details. The other thing that struck me with that play was, how one's reputation and who he or she is matters to the exclusion of everything else. Favre threw to Greg Lewis - good throw and a great catch. But Favre still walks away with most of the honors in our eyes. I was wondering what if it was Trent Edwards to Terrell Owens? TO would have garnered most of the kudos because he is TO. The sports world is strange like that sometimes, but we love it because real life can be even stranger.

Anyways we get to see Favre V Aaron Rodgers next Monday. Can't complain. Last weekend, Detroit won after a long time. It might get some people fired in Washington. The Lions had to win sometime since they can't keep losing for the rest of eternity. So I don't see why the Redskins are taking it so personally! In college, ASU lost a tough one at Georgia. It could have been a great win, but it was not meant to be. The only guy who is probably more hyped than Favre right now is Tim Tebow. Dude suffered a concussion last weekend and there's 24X7 coverage on him since then. In the MLB, the season is winding down, but the usual drama is missing. Teams have big leads and there is no real pennant chase. Where's the parity in baseball? The only drama the last couple of days has involved Detroit and Minnesota, but thats not very interesting as Detroit is leading by 3 after today's game. Time to bring on the playoffs already. MLB playoffs are fun, especially for me when the RedSox and the Yankees play each other and I am pulling for both of them to lose! In other news, the NHL season is starting already. Not that I care, but this means the NBA can't be that far behind. Good times!