If Brett Favre Can Walk on Water, Then By Golly Brett Favre Can Save Journalism
NFL March 7th. 2008, 4:10pm
Without question, the craziest Brett Favre story we’ve read in the last 72 hours has to be the one titled, “How Brett Favre Could Save Journalism, If Only We Would Pay Attention.”
2. He gave everything he had in the moment. Athletes have a term for it: Leave it all on the field.
Editors: What would happen in your newsroom if everyone (starting with you) gave all to the work in front of them, then carried no baggage home. People would produce more, stress less and maybe stay married. You can’t solve the news industry crisis tomorrow, so quit gnawing at it and go chase some stories.
Yes, there are 10 more of these. And yes, the author is an avowed Cheesehead. At some point, the discussion has to become: is he the most loved NFL athlete of all-time? We’re actually serious about that.
How Brett Favre Could Save Journalism, If Only We Would Pay Attention (Poynter)
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March 7th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Hey TBL: Your pick is up in Lozo
March 7th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Brett Favre’s tears can cure cancer
March 7th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
The media are entirely hopeless.
March 7th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Brett Favre is the new Chuck Norris
March 7th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
This was the Brett Favre of posts.
March 7th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Slob on Brett’s knob, like corn on the cob
Don’t care about the picks, he just did his job
The Packers he led, he can jump in my bed
Kept my ass happy, I’m a fat cheesehead
March 7th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Still waiting for the NFL Countdown crew to lobby for a Favre PlayGirl shoot. Sadly, it’s not that far away.
March 7th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Any chance of Brett Favre….
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being in the booth…
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with John Madden?
March 7th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
is she fucking retarded? is she really comparing working in a newsroom to being an nfl quarterback? exhibit no. 7,839,837,098,338 as to why women shouldn’t be allowed to talk about sports.
March 7th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
i heard Brett is taking over EA sports Madden. It will now be call Favre 09 and so on
March 7th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
I’m sure they’ll all give her a standing ovation at the office when she refuses medical attention for a paper cut and stubbornly insists on cranking out another column.
March 7th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
to answer your question, farve may not be the most beloved — he’s certainly up there. but in wisconsin he is god! i cannot imagine any cheesehead ever taking farve’s name in vein.
the only person who may be worshipped more in packerland may be vince lombardi. maybe.
not even stan musial in st. louis is sdored like farve (though close). women, children, old men. the cheeseheads just worship him.
and judging by the way kornheiser and wilbon jizz over him, i’m guessing farve must have some kind of animal magnatism that whoever he meets is overly charmed.
you know, like an obamagasm?
March 7th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Obama to the rescue!
March 7th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
I wonder if Brett were to work as a broadcaster if anyone would comment on how impressed they are by how well spoken and articulate he is?
March 7th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
But it’s the MEDIA that beloves* him. Yeah the fans love him, but is it really the entire nation that can’t get enough of him? Does the entire nation watch his every move? Sounds like just the media, Wisocnsin, John Madden and Ben Stiller.
March 7th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I can’t compete with this.
March 7th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
It’s the fact that he opts for the torn t-shirt instead of Tom Brady’s velvet smoking jackets.
March 7th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
when is college basketball going to get some love on this site. its seems like the same posts over and over
march madness is here
March 7th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
just grabbed Rajai Davis. Man, this league is brutal. There’s simply nobody left. We’re at pick 290 and only half the roster is filled. There are 30 teams, and I’m one of a few without a SS. There’s no closers left (in Borowski we trust).
Disaster? Sure
March 7th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
I thought the saying was By Golly, never heard of By Jolly
March 7th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
the only thing that’s going to save newspapers is a time machine back to transport reporters back to 1970.
March 7th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Brett Favre is the greatest human alive.
March 7th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
TBl, draft Brett Favre.
March 7th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Yeah, Borowski gets you saves but kills the ERA. Better than nothing.
March 7th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
wow cbh, good call. fixed
March 7th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I would say that this is my favorite:
11. He inspired hope. He never played like a game was lost, no matter how little time was left on the clock.
Editors: If there’s been a time we needed hope in our newsrooms, it’s now. So you might be sold tomorrow. Or lose 10 reporters. But what’s the point in folding today? The best thing we can do to help journalism have a tomorrow is by doing the best journalism we can today.
But they’re all so great.