Men & Football
If you know me… you know that I love watching football. If I am not really busy on a Saturday/Sunday…. you will find me watching college football(the best) or the NFL. I can watch it for hours… don’t care if it is the worst game ever… I just enjoy watching football.
Last night, I watched a very “special game”… Viking vs. Packers. The game did not disappoint! Great game! Let me just say I am not a Brett Favre hater, but I am also not a Brett Favre lover either. Quite honestly, I wanted to see a great game and would have been happy if both teams had lost, but the NFL doesn’t let that happen..haha!!! I had a buddy of mine over and all he cared about was his fantasy players(I think he got killed… every so often he would hollar/mutter somthing like “holy buckets” in a tone only fantasy football players would understand… so I take it he loss since I don’t play fantasy football)!
In the midst of the great game and my buddy hollaring at his players, I realized something… Brett Favre is just another person who is struggling with his identity. Let me explain, I totally understand his waffling about playing, then retiring, then playing, then reitring(you get the picture). What really struck me is that his family encouraged him to go back and play, Why? For your family to be like…”Ugh… we want you to be gone for half the year at least” strikes me as odd. But if he is having an identity crisis it makes total sense. Now follow me here…. let’s go back…. go back to highschool… what were you known for? Thank God things have changed, right! Imagine if you had been stuck there for the last 25 years. Wow, what a stigma? Back to Brett: He doesn’t have an identity other than what he does! His self worth is wrapped up in what he does. Anybody see the postgame interview?! You would have thought this was the pinnacle of his career, even though he tried to blow it off. Here is a 40 year old Hall of Fame , Superbowl winning QB, record breaking gun-slinger still trying to prove to the world he is/was a legit football player.
As I watched this happening… the emotion, hype, and the all around circus. It hit me! We’re all live like Brett Favre…. trying to prove we are still “worth it” to other people and God. Let me leave you with this thought/question? Who are you and what are you worth? I know the answer, do you?! Are you the everyday Brett Favre… or something greater?
