Gastineau/Favre Feud Over Sack Record

[CarolinaFathead]

ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentaries are usually well produced and depending on your interest level in the particular topic covered, pretty entertaining as well.

I think I’ll be watching this one.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...show-tense-mark-gastineau-brett-favre-rift-23

 

[CarolinaFathead]

A good side topic to this documentary is, “Does Gastineau belong in the HoF?”

I think he does.

 

[gtb1943]

IT was so clearly a set up; that record should have an asterisk next to it

 

[CarolinaFathead]

IT was so clearly a set up; that record should have an asterisk next to it

Dude…

Couldn’t agree more and I completely get Gastinaeu’s anger. You don’t just “give” another player a record of such magnitude at this level. Everything has to be earned through a maximal environment of competitiveness and competition.

 

[RoboQB]

Gastineau is an unstable, drug riddled, broken individual.
Record, or no record, it shouldn't have an impact on his life, or on anyone else.

 

[John813]

And Watt is also tied with Strahan with 22.5 sacks(15 games played in 17 game season). Is Gastineau going to check if all 22.5 sacks were legit?

Yeesh. Don't care for Favre as a person, but Gastineau seems to not be all there.
Records are meant to be broken, get over it.

 

[CarolinaFathead]

Gastineau is an unstable, drug riddled, broken individual.
Record, or no record, it shouldn't have an impact on his life, or on anyone else.

HoF’er?

 

[Hoofbite]

The 2nd hand embarrassment watching the confrontation was through the roof. This is real Al Bundy or Uncle Rico levels of living in the past.

 

[Flamma]

And Watt is also tied with Strahan with 22.5 sacks(15 games played in 17 game season). Is Gastineau going to check if all 22.5 sacks were legit?

Yeesh. Don't care for Favre as a person, but Gastineau seems to not be all there.
Records are meant to be broken, get over it.

Before they started counting sacks as a statistic, they still counted sacks. Harvey Martin supposedly had 23 in 1977. If you watch the week 13 game against the 49ers, they flashed the statistic up on the screen.

 

[Flamma]

Gastineau is an unstable, drug riddled, broken individual.
Record, or no record, it shouldn't have an impact on his life, or on anyone else.

Agreed. If you want to be upset Favre took a dive, fine. But you have to get over it.

Supposedly he was clean back in 2011. But I don't know when he actually got clean, or if he remains clean. He used to drive through the toll booths where I worked. He happened to be friends with a toll collector. Met at church. Take it for what it is.

Even if he is clean. That doesn't always make you a better person. I've seen people change dramatically, and not for the better. Something snaps in some people when they get off drugs.