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So here it is. I figure I have to be the 2,383,973,216 person to blog about Brett Favre retiring, but after much deliberation, I feel it is quite deserving. I can count on my right hand how many current athletes deserve this much media attention, and Brett is undoubtedly one of those fingers. He wouldn’t be the pinky. Brett is just too hard-nosed to be a useless pinky. He sure isn’t the middle finger. because southern boys are just too courteous to ever toss that gesture around. The index and the thumb work together on just too many tasks for Brett to be associated with anybody else. That leaves the ring-finger.

So why is Brett the ring-finger? Because the ring-finger only means one thing: commitment. You wear the ring with pride, and an ability to say that you have committed your life to something and given every last breath to it. That ring stays on your finger every day of every month of every year for the rest of your life(Knock on wood). Brett just HAS to be that ring-finger. Favre acted out for audiences across the nation the perfect story culminating in a football career. This is of course without the typical storybook ending with a championship in his final season, but Brett’s just too rugged to have that kind of ending. A hard-loss following a dream season is good enough in the hearts of football fans everywhere.

Brett was one of the last connecting pieces to a sports world not ran by money that we use to have. The athletes that care about the game more than money have been forgotten, and rather money-grubbing star seeking for salaries over championships has become a staple of today’s major sports. He became a connection from the past to the present, and throughout it all maintained his presence as a role model for every young player in the league. Not only that, who didn’t at one point in their life want to be Brett Favre? He’s adored by the ladies, has a cannon for an arm, handsome and rugged face, and plays for the Green Bay Packers every Sunday. And I do mean EVERY Sunday. His commitment to playing football week in and week out through injury allowed him to elevate beyond a legend on the gridiron to become a role model for everyday workers. He proved that you must work for what you want through the thick and the thin, and through sickness and in health.

Again, it’s all about commitment.

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