Real scare. Just heard a rumor from Madison that Brett Favre was retiring. Turns out to apparently be an urban myth but my heart was beating quickly for awhile.
Also last night was perusing Real Simple. The docs get magazines at my office as publishers thinks these docs have waiting rooms (haha, no waiting rooms for Pathologists...just morgues) And there was an article on best blogs. And there was zenhabits.net. Didn't mention Leo or Guam or anything but mighty impressive. I know it's won many things but seeing it in print....wow. I still think the Murphy family needs a MD but a famous blogger is pretty cool too. Speaking of famous bloggers, Seth why is Chicago the Big Potato? Alice is now in Boise if you really want to talk potatoes.....
Love this, Leo. Thanks. AP
4 comments:
Hi Pat,
Yeah, I subscribe to that mag (as does my mom) and saw Leo's blog listed. I am so proud!
Leo, what is your mailing address and I'll send you the pages so you can frame them!
Katie
Big Spud is a play on the Big Apple, and Chicago's inferiority complex as the Second City. I might have made it up, been using it so long I forget.
Boise? I already use Boise as the but of any 'hick from the sticks' joke.
Oh, and you spoke too soon re: Favre
Tribune tries not to gloat
Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre has decided to retire from the NFL after 17 seasons.
"I know I can still play, but it's like I told my wife, I'm just tired mentally. I'm just tired," Favre told ESPN's Chris Mortensen in a voice mail message.
"He has had one of the greatest careers in the history of the National Football League, and he is able to walk away from the game on his own terms -- not many players are able to do that," Packers general manager Ted Thompson said Tuesday.
from the Huffington Post (allegedly):
“After 17 years of dedicated service to the NFL’s smallest city, my husband, Brett Favre, has decided to step away from the game that he has loved to play since he was a little boy in Kiln, Mississippi. When he was elected to replace Don Majikowski in 1992, he lead the Green Bay Packers to victory and forever changed its history through the rest of the 90s. Even though the Packers only have one Superbowl trophy to show for his 17 years of service because he passed the ball to the opposing team early and often, history will show that Favre was the best thing to ever happen to the state and the NFL.
To continue his legacy, I, Deanna Favre, is proud to announce that I am running for Starting Quarterback of the Green Bay Packers. Though I have never run a offense in my life, I have a ton of football experience and learned home to play the game from the luxury box. I have cheered for Brett since high school, experienced all of his trials and tribulations, and scanned through his playbooks when he was sleeping. I will take credit for all of his touchdown passes and victories, but none of his interceptions and losses. I did not read his playbook before the NFC Championship game when the Packers were defeated because I knew the Giants could have been easily beaten, but I believe Coach Mike McCarthy failed to execute the game plan properly.
My opponent, Aaron Rodgers, has never started a NFL game. He has never done a cameo interview on Monday Night Football. He has never rode on the Madden Cruiser. He doesn’t know what it feels like to play in the frozen tundra of Lambea Field in January from the luxury box. He is a young kid from California who is all style but no substance. What has he accomplished by benching behind my husband the last three years? He gives great speeches in the locker room and in the huddle, but how deep can he throw off of his back foot?
In July during training camp, you have to ask yourself Cheesehead Nation: Who do you trust to lead a 2-minute drill in the 4th quarter with the game on the line?
I am tested. I have been vetted. I will be ready from DAY ONE to lead the Green Bay Packers to the Superbowl.
My name is Deanna Favre and I approve this message.”
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