10 Ways That I’m Just Like Brett Favre

In case you missed the news, National Football League quarterback and future Hall of Famer Brett Favre came out of retirement (again) and signed a $25 million, two-year contract with the Minnesota Vikings on Tuesday. Many Vikings fans and football analysts believe that the Vikings other quarterbacks, Tarvaris Jackson and Sage Rosenfels, both lacked reasonable first names and the ability to get the Vikings to the Super Bowl.
Yet Favre’s best days are almost certainly behind him and his first comeback attempt with the New York Jets ended in failure last year when he suffered a serious shoulder injury halfway through the injury. Most players would have been out for the year but Favre, true to his uber-competitor spirit, played through the pain. It would have been a great story if he played well but he didn’t. He stunk. After the season, he retired, the Jets released him, and then he and the Vikings danced together for months until he agreed to (again) come out of retirement.

With that background behind us, here are the top 10 similarities between Brett Favre and me:

1. We both live close to 50th and France in suburban Minneapolis. I’ve lived in the Twin Cities since 1988. He’s lived here since, well, Tuesday.
2. We were both born in the 1960’s.
3. We have a lot of gray in our beards.
4. We both love southern food.
5. We’ve both spent time in Mississippi.
6. Both of us are really, really, really looking forward to the two games between the Vikes and the Pack.
7. We both own Vikings jerseys, although his is real and mine is a replica.
8. We both love NFL football, although I doubt that he likes watching it from the stands and I wouldn’t live for two minutes as a player.
9. We recognize that almost everyone looks better in Minnesota Vikings purple rather than Green Bay Packers gold.
10. We’re both unsure if Brett Favre will look better in Minnesota Vikings purple rather than Green Bay Packers gold.

Originally posted by Steven Rothberg