Favre is a butt-hat too

My wife commented on a recent post about LeBron James, calling him a "butt-hat," which I quite liked, and not just because it was my wife who said it. It inspired me to enter that term into a Google image search, and the image above requires no further explanation, at least to the extent of how I got it. I think he's holding his nose to be melodramatic, and not because the butt-hat he's wearing actually smells like a butt.

In any case, this whole Brett Favre business reminds me a lot of LeBron's self-congratulatory one-hour special, in that the guy is so full of himself (and other things) that he sees nothing wrong with stringing a team and a city along while he decides what he's going to do with the rest of his life. I can't be objective about a comparison between them, but I will say that Favre has now done this four straight off-seasons, to three different teams.

I wonder if anybody's totaled up the number of hours spent on ESPN over the years on whether or not Brett Favre is going to retire. This morning's one-hour "SportsCenter" had three non-consecutive segments on Favre's decision to play "one more season" (cough) with the Vikings, including the first 10 minutes or so. Needless to say, that left no time for highlights from last night's Indians-Royals game.

Listen, I don't begrudge the guy's right to keep playing. And I understand that he left Green Bay because they chose to make Aaron Rodgers the starter (though that was in large part because of Favre's pussyfooting around the issue of retirement). But enough is enough already. Either retire or don't. If you're waiting until training camp has already started before you tell a team you're going to join them, you have no business being there.

I never wish injury upon athletes, but there would definitely be an upside to a career-ending knee ligament tear in this case.