Yeah, I read that list today. Just one opinion. You could pick any 10 out of over 50 guys, and nobody would blink.
One GLARING omission from that list is that of one Mr. Brett Favre!!!
Nobody in recent history has done more to disrupt, disorganize, confuse or "hold hostage" any one franchise more than Favre. And not just for that latest little hissy-fit he threw last year with the Packer/Jets thing.
He's been doing his tap-dance for years, craving the microphone and cameras FAR more than any T.O. or Stephon Marbury out there. This "All Time Great Packer-For Life" showed his true colors the minute the folks in Green Bay did anything other than just salivate over him. The slightest hint of him being treated as anything less than the Lord Himself, and Favre retreats into his little, self-absorbed, inwardly important, and selfish world.
HE'S THE ONE who actually acted first and announced retirement. The Packers did nothing to diss him except to say "OK. Thanks for everything. Have a good life", and Farve gets all pouty and upset that they didn't respond the way they did the OTHER DOZEN TIMES he was thinking about retirement. They didn't start crying and threatening to commit suicide over his getting out. The world wasn't coming to an end in Green Bay over Favre's retiring, and little Brett just couldn't, for the life of him, figure this new reaction out. "Uh oh, they're ACTUALLY going to take me up on it!!!"
Not being able to live with that, and realizing that his ATTENTION light was at a flicking end, he then set about holding the organization hostage, and blackmailing the Green Bay Packers and their fans to an unnecessary and headling-grabbing soap opera. Thereby getting the attention he so desperately craves.
He ends up with the J-E-T-S Jets and proceed's to tear up the locker room and divide the team by getting his own private office/locker, and refusing to have anything to do with his team mates except for his "prima-dona" practice schedule and actual game times.
All this from a guy with a single Super Bowl Ring, and even that came during a bad year for football. The last four teams standing were the Jaguars and the Panthers in their third years, and a pre-Bilicheck and mediocre Patriot team. Any other QB with only one skeptical Ring in 17 years would've been long gone in the NFL. But not "The Chosen One", the "Messiah" of Green Bay!
Sorry for the rant, but any list of "bad actors" in sports without Brett Favre on it is invalid, and is short probably THE MOST disruptive character to come along in decades.......................
