Several hours of television were eaten up today by "breaking news" here in Wisconsin... not about a terrorist threat, no phenomenal natural disaster, or any such horrific occurance... nope... in the eyes of some Wisconsinites, it could be considered even worse... Brett Favre, of the famed #4 jersey, 38 year old record-holding quarterback of the Green Bay Packers for the past 16 seasons, former Super Bowl MVP has decided to retire... finally!
To say I am a Wisconsin native and not a Packer fan is almost considered treason by the die hard "cheeseheads" that abound here, and it is not even like I am an anti-Packer fan, or a fan of any other team... I'm just not into football... I'm indifferent.
So why am I relieved that Favre has finally decided to call it quits? Because I am so incredibly sick of hearing about nothing but the questions over whether he will or will not be returning for another season all off-season, every off-season. This is football! Not nearly as important as, say, a presidential election, but now that I've mentioned it... I'm sick of all the political debates as well.
See, I am a huge Brewer fan, and last time I checked, baseball was America's national pastime! Still, many Wisconsinites lost faith in our hometown team during their twelve season losing streak and have only now begun to rejoin the bandwagon now that they are doing well and "earning" the loyalty. Wishy-washy fairweathers really irk me, but that's not the point.
I am just in awe that such an exorbitant amount of unscheduled television time was dedicated to something as minor as an athlete retiring! Yes, I know it was the Brett Favre, and even I will acknowledge that he was a greatly talented quarterback, but he was just a quarterback... just another human being who happened to do something for a living that put him in the public eye, and nothing that warrants an hour and a half of consecutive "breaking news" interruptions on every network station!
It's called idolization, and it goes against God's First Commandment!
