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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Korked Bats

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Happy (What Used To Be) Brett Favre Day!

So April 4th every year USED TO BE recognized as Brett Favre day by me and my friends (Evan Foster, Ross Shewmake and I believe maybe Chris Powers and/or Julian Wiggins) growing up. From elementary school all the way through high school, we would rock our Brett Favre jerseys to school and celebrate the life and career of everyone’s favorite gunslinging, wreckless with the football, routinely throw-in-to-double-coverage, Wrangler Jeans salesman. Yeah, it’s safe to say we got a lot of chicks growing up. Now you’re probably wondering, with such an infatuation for this Copper Fit spokesman, we had to have grown up in Green Bay or somewhere in Wisconsin, right? And while I do love our nation’s Dairyland (Green Lake, WI is one of my favorite places in America)… unfortunately…

No.

This was in Nashville, Tennessee. Which then probably leads you to wonder if we were all just coincidentally Packers fans?

No.

We were all Titans fans (aside from one random Jets fan – shoutout Evan! – and one random Eagles fan – whats up, Julian!). But for whatever reason, growing up (before the Titans moved to Nashville) we all owned Brett Favre jerseys. Apparently, it was like a Michael Jordan jersey of the ’90s or a Steph Curry jersey for today’s generation. If you grew up in a non-NFL market, you – for whatever reason – owned a Brett Favre jersey. It went portable cd player with anti-shock protection, pogs, and a Brett Favre jersey as the things every ’90s kid (outside of Chicago) owned. So it only made sense to dedicate the day of 4-4 to ol’ number 4.

Well… until now.

I think it’s maybe time we table Brett Favre Day. Should we have tabled it 14 years ago when we saw his Brett’s Crocs and Lil’ Gunslinger thanks to Deadspin? Yeah, probably, but we didn’t know any better back then. However, now with him stealing money from welfare funds in Mississippi…. ALLEGEDLY (don’t sue us like McAfee)… maybe it’s time we dedicate 4-4 day to someone else. Preferably someone who didn’t use state funds to build a volleyball facility for his daughter (allegedly), ya know? Like maybe a quarterback who’s known for being good, is easy to root for, and maybe didn’t pull of the largest corruption case in Mississippi state history (allegedly). I dunno, just a hunch. I’m open to suggestions here. And then whatever we decide, I’ll bring forth to our founding fathers Evan, Ross, Chris and/or Julian to ultimately decide.

On second thought, you can sue us if you’d like to Brett. Could be fun!

Austin

Austin hosts a country music morning radio show in Chicago after nearly a decade in sports talk radio (The Jim Rome Show, Steve Gorman SPORTS!) Colin Cowherd and Smash Mouth follow him on Twitter and he wears pants every day.

Austin