As for Marshall, during his time with the Minnesota Vikings, Marshall was involved in one of what is considered by many to be one of the most embarrassing moments in professional sports history on October 25, 1964. In a game against the San Francisco 49ers, Marshall recovered a fumble, but ran 66 yards with it the wrong way, into his own end zone. Thinking that he had scored a touchdown for the Vikings, Marshall then threw the ball away in celebration. The ball landed out of bounds, resulting in a safety for the 49ers.
Back to Favre’s new record, let's get this straight…… The guy has now gone to works 271 days in a row. Did you realize that’s a smidge more than 1 years work for most of us? Could you imagine going to work for a year and not calling in sick and then being told that you held an industry record that will probably be written on your tombstone?
Look, I’m not saying that staying healthy enough to play in that many NFL games is not an achievement, it certainly is. No one else has done it. I’m certain that he’s played through scrapes, bumps, bruises, strains, even a broken bone or two. (Let's not forget that if not for a timely BYE week in the Green Bay Packers schedule, Favre's streak would have ended at 164) in but to crown this feat as some sort of an ironman thing like Cal Ripken’s record is just silly.
Ripken started and played in 2,632 games in a row, Favre 271. Ripken played in 502 straight games AFTER breaking Lou Gehrig’s record? There are plenty of people in this country that go years without missing work. When I was a kid my dad went over 9 years, almost 2,300 days without missing a day at one point and there were guys no doubt that went longer than him.
Last year one of my children received a certificate from his grammar school because he has perfect attendance in 1st grade. He went to 1st grade 180 days in a row and on time. If Favre plays all 16 NFL regular season games this year his streak will be at 285. Sometime this coming February my son will break Bret Favre’s record of consecutive days as he will have a streak going back to 2nd grade. I guess I’ll post it here so he gets some PR but I doubt you’ll see him on the nightly news.
If you are one of those who have gone to work for more than year or so without missing (271 days), give yourself a hand. Treat yourself to something special; maybe even buy yourself a trophy. You have beaten Bret Favre’s consecutive streak. And if you were able to do it without being addicted to pain killers like Farve (my son is clean) you get the record without an asterisk!
P.S. – One good things about John Madden retiring this year is that I don’t have to listen to him wax poetically about Brett Favre anymore…. or at least so I thought. At halftime on Sunday Night Football during the Giants vs. Cowboys game, Bob Costas interviewed Madden and of course the topic of Brett Favre came up. Costas wanted to know what he thought about the never ending Brett Favre saga and this particular episode. Costas didn’t think he was going to get Madden to say something negative about Favre did he? I thought Madden was both a great coach and announcer but his love for Favre and his inability to be objective about Favre’s shortcomings has always been a bit much for me. - Mike Cardano----------
Mike Cardano is the founder of the Around The Horn (Baseball Blogs) and Extra Point (Football Blogs). Mike is also the founder of the fantasy sports games Ultimate Franchise Baseball™ and Ultimate Franchise Football™.
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