Pro Football

This time of the year is known for the leaves changing color, the weather is becoming colder and football! College and professional football both start in August and end in January and February. Everyone I know loves football and can’t wait for the new season to begin each year.
In each family, town, and college tailgate along with many other people and places you will find different levels of fans. You have the ones who do not really care that they are there, but come to the games. You also have the fans that are excited to be there, but would rather be in a different place. Then you have the diehard fans that you are at every game, rain or shine and support their team no matter what they decide to do with the players, coaches, mascots, or stadium.
In the past few seasons of the National Football League, we have seen Brett Farve come out of retirement twice. Favre played for the Green Bay Packers for 17 seasons then retired stating “I know I can still play, but it's like I told my wife, I'm just tired mentally. I'm just tired”. Then after being in retirement for less than a few months then came out of retirement to play for the New York Jets. Then after a season with the Jets, retired again only to come out of it and start a new career with the Minnesota Vikings.
This man, known as Brett Favre has retired twice from playing professional football and then decided to come back and play for a different team. Should we as fans of football support him? I have liked Green Bay and Brett Favre for as long as I can remember, but I do not think I can support him or any other athlete that has retired and decided to come back and play again.
I would have been fine with him coming back to play for the jets and then deciding that playing for them would be the last team and final year for him, but after he came out of retirement again, I lost all respect for him.
Many followers of the Green Bay Packers have suspected that Minnesota has been trying to find a way to allow Brett Favre to play for them and they finally have found the answer. If it is not bad enough, Green Bay and the Vikings are arch rivals and have been for many years.
I had not thought about this part of the team until recently when Michael Vick was reinstated into the National Football League. Michael Vick has been in jail the past two years for dog fighting and is now playing for the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Eagles have a 53 man roster and Michael Vick was number 54. Of course the team is not going to cut him, so they are going to cut another man, and in this case they cut Hank Baskett, who happens to be married to a former Playboy bunny Kendra Wilkinson who is expecting their first child this winter.
What would happen to the man that was cut for Brett Favre on both teams? Would he be able to find another team to play for, or would he have to quit what he was doing for another man that is considered a “Superstar” or in other words, someone is valued more than you are. There is always be people like that but it is still not fair to the person who is losing their job because they want some else. Luckily for Hank Baskett the Indianapolis Colts offered him a job, so he is now going to play for them. There are only so many positions in the National Football League, and letting Michael Vick come back is taking away from some else who has worked hard the past two years, while he was in jail.
Personally I do not think Michael Vick or Brett Favre should be playing this year. Michael Vick committed a crime and should be punished by not being allowed to play football. Even though he has already served his time in jail, there are still going to be kids that look up to him and then there are going to be kids that do not look up to him anymore as a role model. If he is going to be a role model for children, I think he should not be allowed to come back and play in the NFL. When he comes back it seems that the National Football League is saying it is okay for him to go and commit a crime, go to jail and serve his sentence, and then go back to making millions of dollars. In my opinion that is not what a role model is. ‘
Brett Favre is the same way. He is suppose to be a role model but he is retiring from teams the going and joining other teams. There is nothing wrong with retiring, but he burned a lot of fans by the way he went about the whole process of joining the Vikings. I was a fan of his, but he made me extremely angry when he came out of retirement because of what he said during the press conference when he announced his first retirement. No matter what professional athletes do we will not all agree with them, but if we are a true fan we will support them and the team that they play for. I may not like what Brett Favre and Michael Vick did, but I will still support their teams, but not the decisions they made. In the end, it comes back to money and if the athlete they want will bring in more money for them, then the organization will do everything they can to get them on their team roster. It is sad that our world has come to money but it is like that in every aspect of our lives.




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