I Want to Be like Minnesota Vikings QB Brett Favre When I Grow Up

Is he? Isn't he? Will he? Won't he? As a football fan, I admit I, too, overdosed on the excessive "will Brett Favre join the Minnesota Vikings?" coverage this year. Now that Brett Favre is indeed back, again, hopefully we can just enjoy watching him play. Last night against the Texans, Favre showed that at almost 40 he can still play at this level. What I found remarkable wasn't his play, but that he looked like he was still enjoying himself after all these years.

In a time of player holdouts, Michael Crabtree, attitudes, Brandon Marshall, and bratty behavior, Jay Cutler, the biggest complaint about Favre is, he won't walk away from the game. While I agree his wavering is enough to make you seasick, I think it's great he's come back. I grew up watching Steve Young and Joe Montana and still miss watching them play. The name Lawrence Phillips still makes me angry, he being the man who missed the block that led to another Steve Young concussion, and his subsequent retirement. Young was 38 when he retired and had it not been for his numerous concussions, I believe he could have played another season. As a 49er fan, I wish he had, we'd even take him back now.

Brett Favre still throws the ball with zip and he'll make the Minnesota Vikings a better team. He has one of the, if not the best, running back tandems in football in Adrian Peterson and Chester Taylor. He also has exciting rookie Percy Harvin ready to fill up ESPN's highlight reel.

Youth is celebrated in this country, it always has been. In sports young players take positions from their older, aging counterparts regularly. It's actually refreshing to see a player at the end of his career decide to continue playing and have a team willing to let him.

Maybe this season, Favre leads the Vikings to the playoffs, and in a perfect Hollywood ending, to the Super Bowl, maybe not. However the Favre trilogy ends, I applaud number 4 for making his great career last as long as he can. Most of us look forward to retirement, but not Brett, then again, most of us probably don't enjoy our job as much as he does.