This How You Walk an Extremely Fine Line

Steady. Careful. Gentle. After making this post and creating a post label that obviously expresses frustration about the whole Favre saga, how am I going to criticize this post? Stick around an I'll show you. It's all a matter of delicate semantics- obviously the kind of stuff that makes for exciting blogoreading.

Quick Question

Is there anything more boring, in all of sports, than the Brett Favre saga?

Anything?

Yes. You made a list of jokes to answer your own rhetorical question. Most of them were funny, but didn't make you any less wrong. I won't take the same approach; I'll just boringly clarify why that's the case. It's not that the saga itself is boring. One of the best QBs ever to play the game, still perfectly capable of taking a team deep into the playoffs, is going through a painful separation with the team he's spent 98% of his career with? And he's trying to orchestrate a trade to a team in the same division, almost certainly in hopes of exacting revenge? I don't care what you have to say about it- that's a pretty cool story. On the most basic level, that's interesting. Now, is the way ESPN and other outlets have presented it horrifically annoying? Is Favre himself pretty much a useless piece of crap? Aaaaaaaaaaaaabsolutely on both counts. But that's a function of the way anything involving a superstar that is surprising or out-of-the-ordinary gets presented these days, not a function of Favre or his actions. You're a professional writer. Choose your words more carefully. Oh yeah- and this, one of your candidates for something in the world of sports that is less exciting than Favre,

5. SportsCenter. (N.B. may not count as "sports.")

is unfunny.