Favre for president

Throughout Brett Favre’s career there’s been many a drunken cheesehead wave their equally cheddar signs adorned with those very words, “Favre for president”. Now, while I’m sure each and every one of those diehard Lambeau loons would indeed have voted for Favre in each election since Green Bay traded for him (and I’d bet a few of them have chosen him as their “write-in vote”), there really wasn’t much about him that screamed “presidential”. That is, until now. Given, he’s a rich, white guy with an accent, but he earned what he has. He wasn’t born with, nor did he marry into, that money; though I’m fairly certain he came pre-assembled white with built-in accent, but where does he stand on the issues? With his continued career limbo, I believe it’s safe to assume he doesn’t know when to pull-out. So we’ll extrapolate that into him being pro-war (and pro-choice). Hey, don’t jump on me. I’m a lifelong Favre fan. It’s not easy for me to jump to these erroneous conclusions, but I felt I had to for the good of the nation.

Do you think Favre would win if he were running against Obama? Neither do I, but I do know he’d be a hell of a lot more fun than McCain. McCain’s like Al Davis; you know he’s too old to do what he’s doing, but there’s nobody that can really tell him that. Who’s Obama like then? Mark Cuban, maybe? I guess that could fit. I mean, to the old white guys he represents youth and change, which old white guys are apparently against, but if you look at him more closely; he’s really not all that young or different. I suppose it could be said that the Republicans are like Major League Baseball in that they don’t want to let the young maverick into their midst because they thinks he’s too different, but really if he was just allowed in they’d see he’s pretty much just like they are but with less age and more skin pigmentation. Wait, am I talking about Obama or Cuban? I’m not really sure anymore, but how about that: Cuban vs. Favre for the United States presidency? One’s a maverick looking to make some changes and the other’s a set in his ways old dog who sometimes says the wrong things. Although Favre’s usually good in front of a mic and he’s younger than Cuban… and Cuban is always saying controversial things… hmm… One’s a slick maverick with a history of misguided quotes and the other’s slightly younger pressroom fireballer… Although, Cuban isn’t really the maverick people think he is; I mean, just look at his goatee… and Favre’s, well that’s a pretty good description of Favre.

So, it’s a perceived maverick with a history of controversial quotes and bad facial hair decisions versus a slightly younger guy who wants change and just doesn’t know how to go about getting it but makes pretty good speeches. Yep, now that’s an election I could really get behind.