From NPR, Patrick Daley, owner of Manhattan's Kettle of Fish:
"I know it's only football, but to us it's more than that. And we all feel like we're at a wake," Daley says of the mood among Packer Backers.And people think I overdo the accent sometimes. Oh no. Anyway, here's Favre himself:
"I was watching at home last night, I actually broke down (watching) some of the footage. How could you not?" Favre said. "I realized what it's like to die. As I'm watching TV last night, I said this is what it's like for me to die."The tragedy of Favre -- and it is a tragedy -- is that he's a simple man who has been made very complicated. No one who has heard him at press conferences, parsing his thoughts like a cook leveling a cup of flour, can deny this. He analyzes, he weighs, he judges, and he does it extremely well, and I don't think it comes naturally to him at all. He remade himself to be who he is, and now it's done, and now what? Now what.
im really anxious what's next for him.
Posted by: poulsbo florist | March 07, 2008 at 05:27 AM
I was thinking about that too. Figure it's gotta be hard.
Doug M.
Posted by: Doug M. | March 07, 2008 at 06:01 PM
"The tragedy of Favre -- and it is a tragedy -- is that he's a simple man who has been made very complicated."
Carlos - is that an intentional Gene Wolfe reference? Because it does reflect (albeit in a nearly exact mirror image) one of the most memorable passages from _The Shadow of the Torturer_.
In any event, my wife (the serious football fan in our family) would probably agree with
your assessment of Brett.
Posted by: Robert P. | March 10, 2008 at 07:12 AM
It was unconscious, which is a little disturbing, but I know the exact passage you're talking about, and Favre is nearly the mirror image of Gurloes.
Posted by: Carlos | March 10, 2008 at 04:02 PM