[Oe List ...] Brett Favre and the Vikings

[Jim Baumbach]

How can all my RS-1 colleagues FAIL to recognize Bonhoeffer in a 
football uniform?  Farve is the epitome of  a "free man."

Jim Baumbach

Linda and Milan Hamilton wrote:
>
> I will not dare to add or detract anything from the passionate back 
> and forth on whether Brett Favre was abused by those big mean New 
> Orleans linemen, or whether he should have thrown that cross-field 
> pass (which every quarterback is taught never ever to do).  I just add 
> below the content of my blog for today that normally only is sent to 
> my "blogger groupies" and my writing class.  Just because I felt I had 
> to write something on this historic occasion. 
>
>  
>
> Mellow Milan
>
> aka Milan Hamilton
>
> 80 North Center Street
>
> Redlands, CA  92373-8116
>
> Phone/Fax: (909) 793-4482
>
> E-mail: mellowmilan at verizon.net
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> My blog: www.mellowmilan.blogspot.com
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>  
>
> I keep seeing him, over and over, running to his right, outside the 
> pocket, looking for a receiver who will make the catch and set the 
> stage for Ryan Longwell to kick the tie-breaking and game-winning 
> field goal, with just seconds left in regulation playing time.
>
> "Brett!  Brett!  Don't try it!  Look!  In front of you the field is 
> wide open for 10 or 15 yards!"
>
> "You can slide into the 25 or 30 yard line---that will be enough"
>
> Every quarterback from Pop Warner on up is taught the one cardinal 
> rule of passing the football:  Never, ever throw the ball back across 
> the field.  Of course, Brett Favre is not every quarterback.  He 
> doesn't see it that way.  Whether it is the number of hits he has 
> taken from charging linemen and linebackers and even safeties who have 
> taken turns pummeling him to the ground during this grueling day of 
> battle with the New Orleans Saints (team of destiny, some say), or his 
> return to his old standby throwing arm which has made him one of the 
> legendary quarterbacks in NFL history, or whether he is just too 
> damned tired to run another step on the injured ankle that almost took 
> him out of the game, he goes ahead and does what every quarterback and 
> field general knows better than to do.  He throws across the field to 
> his left into three Saints defenders surrounding his intended 
> receiver.  One of them picks it off.
>
> The next scene is New Orleans winning the coin toss to begin the 
> overtime and promptly marching through the demoralized Minnesota 
> Vikings defense to score the winning 3 points.
>
> Why am I obsessing about Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings?  After 
> all, as the saying goes, it is only a football game.  Perhaps a 
> career-ending one for Favre (but even that isn't so certain, is it?), 
> but a game nevertheless.
>
> Well, if I am honest, it is not about Brett Favre or the Vikings, or 
> even football.  How many times have I seen, right in front of my nose, 
> the way open to get to the next critical juncture in life, only to 
> revert to my little tried and not-so-true way of doing things?  I 
> throw myself directly into the most impossible situation, knowing the 
> outcome will be disastrous.  Is it for glory and fame?  For proving 
> that this time my way will work?
>
> No!  It is just the little me again, thinking I can control the 
> outcome of the game, all by myself.  Thankfully, I know that it is 
> still a game, one that the mysterious force called life is playing 
> with itself.  And we get to play and we get to watch ourselves playing 
> at the same time.  So let the game continue!
>
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