Guest Post and Live Super Bowl Chat Reminder

First, I wanted to send out a reminder to everyone that we’ll be chatting tonight on the blog about the Super Bowl and everything going on in New York sports. The live chat will start at 9:30 PM and I look forward to seeing you all here for that.


Second, we have a very special guest post for you today. In my sophomore year of college I walked into the sports department of the school newspaper and said I wanted to help out. I walked out with a weekly column. Without that opportunity to write—something I loved to do but wasn’t able to do as much in college as I would have liked as an Economics major—I don’t think there would ever be a blog today. So when I got a message from a college student who was interested in writing a guest post, I didn’t want to say no; actually I was very interested in giving our guest blogger, Aladdin Shilleh, a chance to show what he could do. So without further ado, here is Aladdin’s guest blog on Brett Favre and those long-suffering Minnesota Vikings fans.
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Say what you want about Brett Favre, one undeniable thing about last Sundays game is that the guy can flat out take a beating. There were multiple instances where Favre was hit late after the play and there was no call (including a vicious ankle hit by Bobby McCray that NFL officiating czar said was a missed call--the result of the play was an interception). While last year nobody actually knew what Favre would give the Vikings--he is 40 and coming off a shoulder injury--most people around the football world all wanted him to just go away, “go back to Kiln, MS and get back on that tractor old man” is what they were saying.

For the last 3 or 4 post-seasons when all the Favre drama started up, I predicted each time that he would retire and stay away (after all, he has to hang it up sometime). Everyone (me included) just wished it would end and just let him go off like the legend that he will become. We were all sick of his antics and indecision. Everyone was (and still is) presumably sick of what seems like 5,000 screen shots of his wife Deanna and daughter Brittany (who I personally don’t mind). However, this season is different because of the production that Favre put up in Minnesota, 38 Tds to only 9 Ints. This is a guy that averaged 17 Ints a year for his first 18 years in the league and all of a sudden he learned to stop making stupid throws. Now we all know what Favre can do and most people would like to see him come back and try to win it all next year with a very talented and deep Minnesota team.

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