Brett Favre

Author: DavidJones  //  Category: Ethics, Sports, Youth Culture

If you’ve been keeping up with sports at all, you’ve probably heard all of the controversy with Brett Favre. ESPN has been giving 10X as much coverage to this issue as they are to the Olympics which start in 2 days.

In a nutshell, Brett Favre, longtime quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, announced his retirement this off-season and the role of quarterback was handed over to Aaron Rodgers, who has been waiting in Favre’s shadow for the past 3 years. Well, when Favre retired, Rodgers was named the team’s started quarterback.

Unpleased with his decision, Favre decided to return to football. However, the Packers had already named Rodgers the starting QB. This created quite a dilemma for the team: Read more…