This summer’s sports soap opera has finally ended with the Green Bay Packers trading their un-retiring and future hall of fame quarterback Brett Favre to the New York Jets. <\/p>\n
Packers president Mark Murphy said, “It’s like a marriage that ends. It happens. Neither party is at fault.”<\/p>\n
Now I’m a guy who views Superbowl Sunday as a holiday (albeit a secular one – like Labor Day). But even I do not confuse a business negotiation with a marriage. <\/p>\n
Uh, Mr. Murphy? Football is not like marriage. Divorce is never no one’s fault. In marriage, two people take vows. These vows normally involve a lifetime commitment, unlike a football contract. Marriages the end in divorce are because one or both spouses don’t live up to those vows. <\/p>\n
Marriage is in trouble when one of the greatest tragedies in society is equated with a football player leaving a team and no one notices. <\/p>\n
Update 8\/8:
\nI was watching ESPN “1st and 10” this morning and the host said that Brett Favre was coming off a 16 year divorce in Green Bay and moving into a home with his new wife in New York. <\/p>\n
Sigh. No, ESPN. Brett Favre was only employed by the Packers, not married to them. Football is a great past-time and all, but it isn’t fundamental to a society like marriage is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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