Brett Favre’s unretirement offers a career lesson…for the rest of us?
Maybe we should all take a leaf out of Brett Favre’s playbook.
Not the last-minute interception: The delayed retirement.
The veteran 40-year-old quarterback just led the Minnesota Vikings to the conference playoffs–and within a whisker of the Superbowl–at an age when most of his peers have either faded to minor teams or hung up their cleats altogether.
Mr. Favre first toyed with retirement two years ago, before choosing to stay in the game. He’s now halfway through a two-year deal with the Vikings and is reconsidering whether to come back next season, following Sunday’s pounding by the New Orleans Saints when he limped off the field with bruises, cuts and a sprained ankle.
But with Brett Favre, who knows?
As a broken-hearted Minnesota Vikings fan…you decide.
It’s hard to win without a decent QB. At this point Fav-ray is our only decent QB. So until we have another decent QB option we really don’t have much choice, so there isn’t much to decide.
The true fans are not “broken-hearted”, we’re just a little more jaded.
Four years ago, before the economy did a Wile E. Coyote off a cliff, companies were already looking ahead with some concern to the demographic facts of an older and smaller workforce and how best to entice older employees to stay on past the typical retirement age via more flexible schedules and benefits. At the same time, many astute employees were also looking ahead and at their measly retirement savings, longer lifespans and increasing health costs and thinking “I don’t want to keep working until I’m 70, I have to keep working until I’m 70.” Today those retirement savings are even smaller and while employers have been doing without as many employees, a recovery will push demand again. I think we’re likely to see more semi-retirements, job-sharing and portable benefits (not just health, either) … assuming we survive the Obama “recovery”.
I hope he comes back. He is the reason the Vikes made it as far as they did. Plus, he’s fun to watch.
If I completely ruined my employer’s most sacred goal, and reason for existence, yeah, I might have to delay retirement, and find another job.
(On the other hand, retirement decisions are much easier to make if you have bajillions of dollars in the bank.)
The true fans are not “broken-hearted”, we’re just a little more jaded.
Then let the record show I am not a real fan and I’m okay with that.
Exhibits A-F:
1970
1974
1975
1977
2008
2010
True fan here. I’m most certainly NOT broken hearted. It is a game that was played. One side won, my team lost. Simple as that. I could go all liberal and start whining about how “it’s not fair”, but I can’t. I’ll just have to wait for next year, when the Vikes go 2 and 0 over the Bears.
Simple pleasures and all that.
Jeff, what if you were part of coming the closest to your employer’s most sacred goal and reason for existence in the past decade?
“Exhibits A-F:”
*cue Aerosmith, Jaded*
If you feel bad about the Vikings, visit The Curse of Bobby Layne and realize how lucky you are.
They were in the top 4 in the NFL, that’s not bad.
“employer’s most sacred goal”
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Mr D.
Being a Lions fan is easy. You have no expectations so you have no letdowns. It’s harder to be a fan of team that SHOULD win it all, but never does.
It’s harder to be a fan of team that SHOULD win it all, but never does.
But what would a Vikings fan know of that?
What he said.
Vikings fans can always check the Vegas odds. 8)