Drew Brees: "It's selfish"...
(Tim) Here's what Drew Brees had to say about clinching the most accurate passing season record (70.62 percent) partly through his coach benching him in Game 16. Brees here is comparing the way he got his record to the way Ted Williams got his 1941 record of the .406 season batting average--Williams being offered the opportunity to sit in order to protect the record, but turning it down:
"Everything about (Williams) was great. The hitting, the fact that he left baseball twice to serve in two wars. So when Sean told me, 'You're not playing, and it's not up for discussion,' that was tough. On the one hand, I don't want to set the record by sitting. On the other hand, if I say I want to play because I don't want to set a record this way, it's selfish. So I didn't say anything.''
Gotta love him.
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Week 17, Game 16.
Thanks, I corrected it.
Go Kurt Warner!
>Go Kurt Warner!
This is a better example of Christian liberty...
I too rooted for Kurt, but with the way things wound up, I have no problem rooting for Drew over Brett (Let's run up the score by adding a meaningless playoff TD pass) Favre. THERE's an example of selfishness!
Yeah. Not a big Favre fan, either. I mean, it's amazing his dedication and his ability (at his age) in the NFL, but it tends to leave a sour taste in one's mouth...the way he's conducted "business" in the last few years.
I'd like to see the Colts v. Saints. I think it's difficult not to have affection for either team.
>Let's run up the score by adding a meaningless playoff TD pass
That was Childress' call not Favre's. And it was payback for what Dallas did in running up the score on Andy Reid who is a good friend of Childress.
>the way he's conducted "business" in the last few years
You mean the petty way Green Bay treated him?
I usually agree with you across the board, David Gray, but this is one time I can't.
No, I mean the narcissistic way he handled his "I'm retiring...no, wait-I'm not...maybe I might...no, I'm not...and whatever team is going to take me is going to have to pluck their standing quarterback out to make room for me" sort of business. You can tell that everything is about him. All the time. He kind of reminds me of Brady and Romo, except that he's older and should know better by now.
You know what I think would be sweet, ironic justice? For the Jets (his former team, for whom he did virtually nothing after coming in and making them feel like he was doing them some huge favor) to whip Minnesota's can in the Super Bowl.
>No, I mean the narcissistic way he handled his "I'm retiring...no, wait-I'm not...maybe I might...no, I'm not...and whatever team is going to take me is going to have to pluck their standing quarterback out to make room for me" sort of business.
If you'd discussed that I'd have agreed with you.
>You know what I think would be sweet, ironic justice? For the Jets (his former team, for whom he did virtually nothing after coming in and making them feel like he was doing them some huge favor) to whip Minnesota's can in the Super Bowl.
Actually he made them rather more competitive than they'd have been otherwise. They should have benched him after he injured his bicep.
>If you'd discussed that I'd have agreed with you.
Sorry. Maybe I should have been more explicit when I expressed my disdain for how "he conducted business."
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