Favre retires yet again …
For the third time in as many years, veteran quarterback Brett Favre is calling it a career. The 41-year-old, who suffered the worst season in his 20 year career said after Sunday’s game: “One game or one season doesn’t define me. I know it’s time, and that’s OK. It is. I hold no regrets. It was way more than I ever dreamed.”
After nearly two record setting decades of illustrious play, the past year has been one for the record books too. He was picked off 19 times and ended things with a dismal 69.9 quarterback ratings – the lowest in his career. The Vikings finished at the bottom of the NFC with a coach fired mid-season and ol’ Brett was immersed in a sex scandal that caused the NFL to levy a token $50,000 fine for non-cooperation.
We’ve been down this retirement road before with Favre. He retired after an illustrious career with the Green Bay Packers in 2008 and again after a so-so year with the New York Jets.
The first season of his two year deal with the Minnesota Vikings gave the aging athlete hope that he could bring the Purple and Gold to the Super Bowl. That pipe dream quickly fell by the wayside in 2010. Plagued with one injury after another and a scandal that he pretended didn’t exist, he ended his 297 record of consecutive starts.
Will retirement stick this time? Only time will tell. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again — goodbye and good luck Brett.
Check out his latest retirement video below: