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TUESDAYS WITH C-O-U-R-T-N-E-Y! (Brought to you on Thursday.)

Never has there been a bigger disconnect between the national media and fans of the NFL.  Brett Favre is a blight on the American landscape, the human incarnation of the potato famine.   How come we, Americans, see it so clearly and they, the media, don’t?

Brett Favre

Yesterday, a guy I know e-mailed me out of the blue to say “I hate the fact that Favre is actually doing well.”   Indeed, now everyone does.

Favre’s success is demoralizing.  Gruden’s waxing Favre’s tip on Monday Night Football demeaning.  Far from vindicating him vis-a-vis his former employer, Favre’s victory cast a noxious, toxic plume into the Monday night sky.  It lingers into Thursday.  For the mouth-breathers in the media, the scent is lost in the afterglow.  For the rest of us, Americans, we lie at night wondering when the airborne toxic event that is Favre’s return will pass.

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