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Brett Favre Tarnishes Legacy
By Kevin Blackistone - AOL NewsThe great Willie Mays stumbled. Then he fell down. And all he was trying to do was catch a fly ball in centerfield. He was in the 1973 World Series, then with the Mets. It was the last game he would play in his fabulous Hall of Fame career. He was 42. It doesn't matter that Mays, with stats that make him look like the greatest player baseball has ever seen, reiterated last year to his biographer James S. Hirsch in "Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend" that he lost the ball, as had other players that day, in the sun. The Stumble became as etched in baseball lore as The Catch, the ...
The Swift Fall of Brett Favre: A Timeline
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsOn Monday, two massage therapists filed a lawsuit against quarterback Brett Favre and the New York Jets. Shannon O'Toole and Christina Scavo allege that in 2008 Favre tried to convince them to have sex with him. After Scavo's husband confronted Favre, the women say, a Jets employee purportedly told them, "[Y]ou will never work for the Jets again" and "Keep your mouth shut." The two were never again called to work for the Jets. Of course, this is just the most recent headache for Favre, who remains married to Deanna Favre, a survivor of breast cancer. Surge Desk takes a look back at the ...
In Lost Season, Brett Favre's Start Streak Is All Vikings Have Left
By Kevin Blackistone - AOL NewsWhen it ended dramatically for the Vikings last season, with Brett Favre coming up an ankle and prayer short of winging the Vikings past the Saints in overtime of the NFC title game, one of the first people to embrace the creaky old quarterback in the loser's locker room was his team's defensive coordinator, Leslie Frazier. So why would anyone think that as the Vikings' new interim head coach -- the title Frazier was awarded on Monday after Brad Childress finally was sacked as head coach -- Frazier's first order of business, in what absolutely just became a lost season for the Vikings, would ...
With So Much at Stake, Brett Favre Must Come Clean About Off-Field Mess
By Kevin Blackistone - AOL NewsWhen the Vikings hit their Minnesota practice field on Thursday afternoon, it was reported that Brett Favre was with them. He didn't rest as he had a day earlier, complaining of discomfort in his throwing arm's elbow. His return to practice was an indication, too, that he won't sit out the next game or two as he suggested earlier this week. It was suggested over the past few days that Favre was getting preferential treatment in the media, if not again by his employer -- particularly head coach Brad Childress, who also has served in the past as Favre's personal chauffeur. Let it be noted that ...
Brett Favre's Agent Says Ankle is Everything
By Michael David Smith - AOL NewsBrett Favre's agent says we should all calm down about whether or not Favre will play for the Vikings this season, because it all depends on an upcoming checkup on Favre's surgically repaired ankle. According to agent Bus Cook, it's simple: If Favre's ankle heals sufficiently that he can play, then he will play. If the ankle continues to bother him, he won't play. And he has an appointment with Dr. James Andrews next week that should go a long way toward clearing things up. "As far as Brett is concerned, in spite of reports to the contrary with his contract, everything has to do with his ...
Vikings Reportedly Willing to Guarantee Brett Favre $16 Million to Return
By Michael David Smith - AOL NewsIf Brett Favre is wavering about playing this year, the Vikings are willing to pay him as much as it takes to tip the balance. Favre is currently scheduled to make $13 million in base salary for the 2010 season, but the Vikings are reportedly willing to bump that up to $16 million, or a cool $1 million per regular season game. As a vested veteran, Favre's entire salary is guaranteed as soon as he's on the Week 1 active roster, so he'd get that money even if he got hurt and ended his record consecutive games streak. Judd Zulgad off the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that the Vikings have ...
Briggs, Harris Not Closing Book on Favre
By Michael David Smith - AOL NewsDespite the reports today that Brett Favre is telling the Vikings he plans to retire, a couple of players on the Bears' defense say they fully expect to line up against Favre this season. Bears linebacker Lance Briggs and defensive tackle Tommie Harris told the Daily Herald that they think Favre -- not Tarvaris Jackson -- will be the Vikings' starting quarterback when the Vikings play the Bears on November 14 and December 20. "I won't believe it until I see Tarvaris Jackson starting against us," Briggs said.Harris said that the Vikings will move on from Favre eventually -- just not this ...
Vikings Insist They're Not Too Old
By Michael David Smith - AOL NewsThe Minnesota Vikings are an old football team -- even without Brett Favre. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune points out that the Vikings have nine starters who are 30 or older in training camp right now, which raises the question of whether this might be a team on the decline. Even if everyone in Minnesota insists that the Vikings don't feel old. "You always hear when you turn 30, you're old," 33-year-old cornerback Antoine Winfield said. "But look at all the guys still producing when they're in their 30s and even Brett into his 40s. That thinking is going out the window, even at a position like ...
FanHouse Plays Antonio Gates in Madden at the Super Bowl
By Will Brinson - AOL NewsApologies for the delay in this final Super Bowl offering, but approximately 44 different internet nightmares conspired to delay it. Anyway, the kind folks with Microsoft Xbox -- with the extremely helpful assistance of the folks at Motorola -- got me a few minutes with the San Diego Chargers' Antonio Gates during media week. Gates seemed to believe that yours truly had video game super powers, but that's not the case. At least as far as he knew. We squared off Colts (him) vs. Saints (me) and the game actually went to overtime. Unfortunately for Antonio, he got the ball first in the opening ...
Haterade Power Rankings: Because We Dislike Things
By Will Brinson - AOL NewsIt's the Haterade Power Rankings. Drink up, suckers. If you missed the recent Airing of the Grievances at FanHouse, you missed out on some good goshdarn cathartic fun. So much fun, in fact, that we've been ordered by our bosses asked politely to crank out all our cynicism in a weekly post that ranks stuff we hate the most from the previous seven days. (And, sure, it would be a lot funnier if we could cuss, but whatever.) Got anything you hate? Leave it in the comments or complain to management that we don't have an e-mail available because we don't like to be pestered by annoying Cowboys ...
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