I just cried.
Not the weeping and wailing genre of crying, but there were enough tears that I needed to excuse myself from the room to recover.
Brett Favre, the legendary Green Bay Packers quarterback, is set to retire after 17 years of professional football excellence. He’s leaving the game with a Superbowl ring, three league [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘sports’
March 4, 2008
The Official End of My Childhood :: Brett Favre Retires
February 16, 2008
An Offer He Can’t Refuse
Imagine this:
You’re a twelve-year old boy in sixth grade and you’d like to play football for your school next year. You’ve never played before and you think you’d like to play on the offensive line, particularly center.
Then one day, the starting left tackle for the Penn State Nittany Lions offers to have you come stay [...]
February 6, 2008
Recruiting Terrelle Pryor
A few months ago, one of the guys in my youth group was on a football team that fell one game short of playing in the Pennsylvania State Championship. When I saw him the next day after the loss, I tried to console him with the following:
“Dude, the bad news is that you’re not [...]
February 4, 2008
XLII thoughts on Super Bowl XLII
I can’t believe the Patriots lost that game.
Eli was a good pick, but David Tyree was the game MVP.
Tyree’s one hand & helmet catch on that last drive was the stuff of legends.
So was Eli’s scramble to make the throw.
Plaxico Burress was a non-factor for someone who talked so much pre-game, even with that last [...]
