http://zonersports.com/2008/08/favre-the-after-trade-effects/ Chicago sports and more. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:44:14 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://zonersports.com/2008/08/favre-the-after-trade-effects/comment-page-1/#comment-111302 MOD Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:32:32 +0000 http://zonersports.com/?p=1352#comment-111302 Someone once wrote about Roger Clemens being the most selfish man in sports. This was a good 2-3 years back when he was keeping the Yankees in suspense over whether or not he was going to sign, then wound up making an insane amount for about 20 starts. Now it is clear that the reporter was right. This whole Favre garbage is reminiscent in a very bad way. It's angering, not watching all the coverage but knowing it's there even when you try to avoid it. It was all over all the news outlets and on almost every TV at the Y where I exercise. It was on every site I check daily. And it all seemed to be about Favre playing the victim, like Clemens did. It makes me sick. But I wonder, have the media created the monsters that these men have become? There has to be something within them to begin with, some insatiable desire to compete that is beyond normal. I can't root for men like this. Someone once wrote about Roger Clemens being the most selfish man in sports. This was a good 2-3 years back when he was keeping the Yankees in suspense over whether or not he was going to sign, then wound up making an insane amount for about 20 starts.
Now it is clear that the reporter was right.
This whole Favre garbage is reminiscent in a very bad way. It’s angering, not watching all the coverage but knowing it’s there even when you try to avoid it. It was all over all the news outlets and on almost every TV at the Y where I exercise. It was on every site I check daily. And it all seemed to be about Favre playing the victim, like Clemens did.
It makes me sick. But I wonder, have the media created the monsters that these men have become? There has to be something within them to begin with, some insatiable desire to compete that is beyond normal.
I can’t root for men like this.

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