Law Technology

Abomination

By Ross

The title says it all. No, it’s not about legal technology. It’s about sports. And about decency, or lack thereof. My family have been Packers fans and season ticket holders since the dawn of recorded time. And like every member of the tribe, and like other Packers shareholders (yes, we have our single share of team ownership), we were devoted Brett Favre followers.

But this is an abomination. It is an affront to all that is decent or at least should be decent in sports. It is about spite, maliciousness, delusional and unjustified revenge, stunning immaturity and callousness and an utter and complete lack of any sense of sportsmanship or honor.

I, as had so many others over so many years, viewed Brett Favre as more than an icon – he was the Lou Gehrig of professional football. An iron man of iron character. A mensch from Mississippi.

I was wrong. We all were. Brett Favre is a modern sporting prima donna of the worst type. He masqueraded as a mensch and deluded so many of us into thinking he was something different . . . above the fray . . . a player who certainly made a very, very good living, but was motivated foremost by the sheer joy of being able to play his favorite sport. We saw it on his face with every touchdown and with every Lambeau leap taken by his targeted receivers over so many years. It was real . . . for awhile.

In the end, it doesn’t even seem to be about business – he doesn’t need the money. His motivation? Embarrassing the Packers and seeking the retribution he feels he is due for the “injustices” and “slights” he feels he suffered.

That loud sucking noise coming from Minneapolis and the Vikings training camp is the sound of the last shred of anything honorable disappearing from professional football.

Brett Fave isn’t a mensch. He’s just a football player.

He’s more of an abomination in my mind than Vista ever was. And my readers know, that says it all.

This is so terribly, terribly disappointing.

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Full post as published by Ross Ipsa Loquitur on August 21, 2009 (boomark / email).