There, that's better.
Posted on 12/31/2009 1:28:03 PM PST by fightinJAG
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These comments left the impression that Favre had become addicted to painkillers. This was true, yet it probably did not represent the entire truth. The truth, his father Irvin says, was that Brett had developed an addiction to the drug Vicodin, a narcotic analgesic. But the truth also included the notion, the elder Favre acknowledges, that a problem with alcohol abuse could exist.
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What, after all, is the first phrase that comes to mind when somebody mentions Brett Favre? "He's a gamer."
Right. How many times have you seen it? Favre is questionable, doubtful, totally iffy, completely banged up. His hip is hurt. His side is hurt. His ankle is hurt. No problem. He plays anyway. He plays amazingly well. He starts 61 consecutive regular-season games, the longest current streak among NFL quarterbacks. In the course of doing so, he earns one of football's highest accolades: "He plays with pain."
Now you understood more fully how that streak occurred. Favre has had more than his share of lumps,
(Excerpt) Read more at findarticles.com ...
Article is an oldie, but goodie, especially if you are not up on your Favre history and are looking for interesting reading on a cold winter’s night.
Brett came to mind for me, however, because as I’ve been keeping up with Rush’s stint in the hospital in Hawaii, it’s been unbelievable how every article throws in the fact that Rush had an addiction to painkillers in the past.
True, it may be that Rush’s recent health problem was caused by a relapse to narcotic use. I’m not saying the information is completely irrelevant.
I am saying that, boy, oh boy, I can’t remember the last time people commenting on how Favre has stepped up his game, played through pain, defied his age and so ever, ever, ever mentions or muses about the role that a “pharmaceutical assist” has played in Favre’s career over the years.
And while painkillers may have helped Favre’s game, it’s doubtful they in any way contributed positively to Rush’s. Yet, here we go, every single article on Rush mentions his past addiction, which so far has no apparent relevance to either his career or his present health status.
1996? *Scratches Head*
Fitting that a Wisconsinite would be first on! LOL
Yeah, 1996.
I explained in my first comment why I posted the thread. Figured a little more leeway for reading material on New Year’s Eve.
Plus I do think it’s a case study to compare to what the media is doing to Rush right now.
I knew Rush was in the hospital in Hawaii; I didn’t have any details. Guess I’d better go see what they’re saying, Huh?
Dr. Williams said chest pains. Who knows? That diet he was on slimmed him down awfully quick; that’s not healthy for man nor beast.
And as a Wisconsinite, there has never been one WHISPER of Brett playing doped up. If so, and there’s proof to be had, then we’ve all been sold a bill of goods concerning his ‘talent.’
P.S. Diana - I hate to say it, but all season I’ve thought Favre just, um, hasn’t been himself. He’s had a little extra spring in the step and mental alertness that I just found inconsistent with the trajectory he’s been on for the past several years.
Sure, players can get hot at the strangest times. And the Vikes maybe are goosing him in all the right places. But last week watching MNF, it did occur to me to ask if maybe, just maybe Brett was getting a little help from some Superman pills.
My curiousity only increased as I’ve seen Rush raked over the “past addiction” coals since he’s been in the hospital.
Well, read the article. All players use pain killers from time to time, I imagine, but most don’t end up in rehab.
As for Rush, all that’s been reported that I’ve seen on what actually took him to the hospital was chest pains and concern that he was having a heart attack.
But every article I’ve read has thrown in there that, oh btw, Rush used to be addicted to painkillers. I guess that’s my point: the MSM simply wants to bring that up whenever possible, when others, who might actually have used pain pills to advance their careers, get heralded as “gamers” and “tough.”
At the CPAC speech he had to be tipping them at 300-plus. He’s now under 180.
That’s a ton of weight in a short period of time.
Rush's father died at an early age -- heart attack, I think. His family history probably is more telling than his FORMER oxycontin use.
Absolutely.
Doctors say that's hard on the heart to loose that much weight that fast. Of course, it's hard on the heart to work that much harder to support the extra effort to move around 300-plus lbs. It's a medical mystery to me.
I’m a huge football fan, but anyone who thinks those guys are reaching their current size without steroid help is in denial. Painkillers are more closely controlled now, but sports will NOT police itself.
BFLR
This thread is worthless without pictures. We love Favre.
There, that's better.
I can name a dozen or so CongressCritters that should be heavily sedated and/or lobotomized, LOL!
Not only that, but every article on the main stream media shows the fattest picture of Rush they have in their files.
I believe that is a misconception about the diet. It was a sensible, well-balanced diet and he lost weight gradually over a period of about 8 to 10 months.
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