TC the Terrible

My buddy AlaskaMike sent me and one of the other guys at the office some files to look at today. When we didn’t respond quickly this is the e-mail conversation that ensued.

AlaskaMike: Are you guys at work today?

Me: Yep. Working is what we do at the office, as opposed to hunting bears with spears or some such thing.

AlaskaMike: That was last week. This week is walrus hunting with bolos.

Me: Let me know when it is boomerang season for sperm whales.

AlaskaMike: I think you’re making that one up. Everyone knows that you hunt whales with catapults!

Me: No, you use catapults to hunt baby seals.

AlaskaMike: Close. You use the baby seals as ammunition in the catapults.

Some days working for the military industrial complex is almost the same as being on an episode of Seinfeld. And I’m always the one playing George.

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I feel sorry for Brett Favre.  I feel sorry for him the way people used to feel sorry for John Elway in his early years in Denver.  Favre is going to be nothing short of an NFL legend when he retires.  He is breathing the same rare air that Jim Brown and Dick Butkus once inhaled.  

I feel sorry for Brett Favre.  He’s playing on the most beat up, broken down, disaster of a team that has been called the Packers in the last 25 years.  I doubt that the starting offensive line for Green Bay would make a decent practice squad for most teams.  And still, number 4 moves the ball down the field and gives his team a chance to win games.  In every game except the opening week, the Packers lost by only a field goal or less.  Almost all of that is on his back.

I feel sorry for Brett Favre.  If this is his last season, and I hope it’s not, he deserves to go out better.  Maybe not back to back Super Bowl wins like Elway, but better than this season is going to stack up to be.  Perhaps he should get a special exemption from the NFL and walk straight off the field and into the Hall of Fame.  He could give his speech still wearing his uniform and still dirty from his last game.

I feel sorry for Brett Favre.    He deserves a better team to play with than this one. — 30 —