Tag Archives: Brett Favre

Rogers No Longer in Odysseus’ Shadow

By Robin Bates | Published: February 12, 2011

Sports Saturday Something memorable occurred last Sunday in Dallas in addition to the Green Bay Packers bringing “Vince Lombardi home” in their Super Bowl victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Quarterback Aaron Rogers stepped out of the shadow of a legend. The literary equivalent that comes to mind is Homer’s Telemachus, but Rogers is Telemachus with [...]

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Never Favre from the Madding Crowd

By Robin Bates | Published: August 28, 2010

Sports Saturday He’s baaaak!  The fabled quarterback who has played more consecutive games than anyone in the history of football, the prima donna who each offseason plays maddening games with the football world about whether or not he’s retiring, the holder of virtually every scoring record who last year had his best season ever, the [...]

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Brett Favre and the Poetics of Failure

By Robin Bates | Published: January 26, 2010

Brett Favre  I watched in amazement this past Sunday as 40-year-old Brett Favre, despite being pounded by the defense of the New Orleans Saints in the National Football League’s National Conference championship game, pulled himself off the grass time and time again to keep on playing. It was an extraordinary chapter in a career that [...]

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