fan4life
10-24-2006, 03:20 PM
I found this article in the Miami Herald. It ran the Friday before the game.
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Favre must be in debate about best
BY GREG COTE
gcote@MiamiHerald.com - October 20, 2006
You may have heard a website report indicated seven NFL venues, including Dolphin Stadium, would be attacked by radiological ''dirty bombs'' Sunday. Great, right? Like a 1-4 vs. 1-5 Packers-Dolphins game wasn't sufficient to drive people away?
The good news is that government officials quickly determined the terrorism threat to be ''not credible,'' rather, a hoax that led the FBI to interview a 20-year-old Milwaukee man. Makes you wonder if he's a Packer fan who figured a plot to cancel the game was the only hope at preventing another Green Bay loss. (He mustn't have seen Miami play).
An ESPN.com poll Thursday found 83 percent said they would have ''no second thoughts'' about attending games at supposedly targeted stadiums. Cannot confirm the other 17 percent were cowering in basement bunkers and couldn't hear the phone.
Why make light? Because I will not let the terrorists win! Also, I will not let the crackpot kid from Milwaukee win! As an added bonus, the diversion delays our having to talk specifically about the Packers-Dolphins matchup, whose one towering, redeeming aspect is this:
Brett Favre.
This will be only the second and almost certainly last time South Florida gets to watch Favre in person. His only other game here was Oct. 29, 2000. Then, he was still around his prime. Now, at 37 and coming off his worst season (29 interceptions), we witness a legend in his deep winter -- Dan Marino in 1999 -- majestic even wounded, even running on fumes.
Favre with 110 yards passing will join Marino as the only men to surpass 60,000 career yards, including playoffs, although Dan's regular-season lead (61,363 to 54,890) makes Favre unlikely to catch him.
Career touchdowns are another matter. Marino's 420 are under heavy assault, with Favre at 403 now and on pace to surpass him late this season.
The ultimate compliment to Favre might be that neither his presumptive TD record, his 1996 Super Bowl ring nor his record three league MVP trophies are the most impressive lines on his résumé. That would be his active string of 226 consecutive starts (246 with playoffs), an ironman streak untouchable for a QB.
Football fans always have argued ''greatest quarterback ever,'' and we've been deep in the debate down here, with Dolfans pushing Marino's prolific numbers vs., say, Joe Montana's rings.
Time now to enter Favre in the conversation when all-time best is debated.
He will retire as prolific statistically as Marino, with the TD mark. He'll have the almighty ring, the MVPs and the ironman streak. He'll have the image, too: the swarthiness, the gunslinger bravado.
Favre will step into Marino's stadium Sunday, onto Marino's field, and be every bit the equal of the Dolphins legend whose name still echoes there. Every bit. The comparison should compliment both men.
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Favre must be in debate about best
BY GREG COTE
gcote@MiamiHerald.com - October 20, 2006
You may have heard a website report indicated seven NFL venues, including Dolphin Stadium, would be attacked by radiological ''dirty bombs'' Sunday. Great, right? Like a 1-4 vs. 1-5 Packers-Dolphins game wasn't sufficient to drive people away?
The good news is that government officials quickly determined the terrorism threat to be ''not credible,'' rather, a hoax that led the FBI to interview a 20-year-old Milwaukee man. Makes you wonder if he's a Packer fan who figured a plot to cancel the game was the only hope at preventing another Green Bay loss. (He mustn't have seen Miami play).
An ESPN.com poll Thursday found 83 percent said they would have ''no second thoughts'' about attending games at supposedly targeted stadiums. Cannot confirm the other 17 percent were cowering in basement bunkers and couldn't hear the phone.
Why make light? Because I will not let the terrorists win! Also, I will not let the crackpot kid from Milwaukee win! As an added bonus, the diversion delays our having to talk specifically about the Packers-Dolphins matchup, whose one towering, redeeming aspect is this:
Brett Favre.
This will be only the second and almost certainly last time South Florida gets to watch Favre in person. His only other game here was Oct. 29, 2000. Then, he was still around his prime. Now, at 37 and coming off his worst season (29 interceptions), we witness a legend in his deep winter -- Dan Marino in 1999 -- majestic even wounded, even running on fumes.
Favre with 110 yards passing will join Marino as the only men to surpass 60,000 career yards, including playoffs, although Dan's regular-season lead (61,363 to 54,890) makes Favre unlikely to catch him.
Career touchdowns are another matter. Marino's 420 are under heavy assault, with Favre at 403 now and on pace to surpass him late this season.
The ultimate compliment to Favre might be that neither his presumptive TD record, his 1996 Super Bowl ring nor his record three league MVP trophies are the most impressive lines on his résumé. That would be his active string of 226 consecutive starts (246 with playoffs), an ironman streak untouchable for a QB.
Football fans always have argued ''greatest quarterback ever,'' and we've been deep in the debate down here, with Dolfans pushing Marino's prolific numbers vs., say, Joe Montana's rings.
Time now to enter Favre in the conversation when all-time best is debated.
He will retire as prolific statistically as Marino, with the TD mark. He'll have the almighty ring, the MVPs and the ironman streak. He'll have the image, too: the swarthiness, the gunslinger bravado.
Favre will step into Marino's stadium Sunday, onto Marino's field, and be every bit the equal of the Dolphins legend whose name still echoes there. Every bit. The comparison should compliment both men.