… We’ll probably never see this relationship in pro sports again. Big-league teams aren’t owned by the community, as the Packers are, and don’t play in small market towns like Green Bay, an icy industrial city of 100,000 nestled in northeast Wisconsin. Big-league quarterbacks don’t throw like Brett Favre ” for 275 straight games (including the playoffs) over 16 years, an all-time record 61,655 yds. He threw it hard and threw it wild ” a record 288 career interceptions ” through searing pain, prescription drug and alcohol addiction, deaths in the family.
… “He’s a different breed from what’s been developed over the last 10 years.”
* Colbert – Farewell, Brett Favre. “You are a credit to your thing and I assume you will be missed.”
* BayouBuzz – Ed Staton’s Take On Why Brett Favre Retired
Maitri to D: “Way to extend something Brett’s dad supposedly said five years ago to today.”
D to Maitri: “You’re reading something called the Bayou Buzz.”
Maitri to D: “Point taken.”
D to Maitri: “Why write new news when it’s already written?”
Turns out Staton is a known plagiarist and is still employed. Jesus on a pogo stick, folks, is it really that hard to write original material any more? During the semester I was a UW geology teaching assistant, my colleagues and I caught a handful of students in the act of plagiarism. Their essays were direct copy-and-pastes of whole articles off the internet (“Our teachers are ancient, they’d never have heard of teh intartubes!” Don’t be so sure when dealing with folks who are a gamer, a webmaster and a blogger, respectively.) After all of the evidence was compiled, the students were brought before the college’s disciplinary board. The gruesome fallout is that those who were on the football team were excused, while the ones who weren’t got the book thrown at them. I wonder if the same treatment applies to sportswriters at BayouBuzz.
