the media has been pressuring him for five years to make a decision right after the season ends. Every older player thinks about retiring after every season..but only the brett favre\'s get berated by the media day after day to give a yes or no. why michael strahan hasn\'t gotten the same media, i dont know, but even he did the same thing last season, and has probably been thinking about retiring prior to the beginning of last season
I agree that the media has made this whole stupid soap opera worse over the years, but a lot of them... hell,
most of them... have annually pressured Favre to
remain. Many still are, even now. Favre himself is not blameless either. His tear-streaked, indecisive press conferences are a yearly tradition that gets more media coverage than the Pro Bowl.
Strahan hasn\'t gotten the same bad rap because he has openly debated retiring for only two years (Brett\'s on year FIVE), he actually did retire this year, and he\'s already moving on from football.
Point is, Brett Favre is showing a complete absence of dignity throughout this affair. His indecisiveness has for years hamstrung the Green Bay organization as far as personell matters are concerned, and now you have so many morons who think that one player is more important than his whole team.
I mean Christ, Montana never had this much drama when he left the Niners, and Montana was four times the quarterback Favre is.