Seriously? A Text Message?

Brett Favre may not retire.

So what made this news? Is he working out with teams, negotiating contracts, and studying film? No, he sent a text message to the Packers GM and told his coach he had thought about coming back.

Of course he's thought about coming back! He said himself that retiring from football would be hard. He wants to play. He just was not sure he could make the commitment. It is not news that he has thought about it. He will be thinking about it 20 years from now.

Brett Favre may come back to football. It may be this year or later. But, until he is serious talks with the Packers or other teams about playing, it is not important. I know it is a slow news time for sports, but that does not mean you can just create stories.

This is too easy for sports journalists. Writing that Brett Favre may come back is like writing that Peyton Manning may make another commercial. For any athlete, if a team will have you, you are never completely retired. Michael Jordan went through the same thing and if a team would let him start, he would still consider coming back.

How many high school athletes regret not playing in college? How many middle school athletes regret not playing in high school? How many couch potatoes regret not playing anything ever?

A person, in anyway interested in sports, wanting or considering playing a sport is not news without more concrete information. That's true if the person is Brett Favre or Joe Blow.

Bottom Line? Talk or write about something else and eventually Brett Favre may make a move.

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