Listening to “Morning Edition” this morning.<\/p>\n
Diana Naiad – “Marketplace”‘s sports-biz commentator – talking about the National Football League and its “best of times\/worst of times” year to date:<\/p>\n
“…and Brett Favre is as well-known an athlete as Mohammed Ali at his peak”.<\/p>\n
!!!<\/p>\n
At his peak, Mohammed Ali was better-known than any world leader, everywhere on the planet; he was more identifiable around the globe than Richard Nixon, at their respective peaks.\u00a0 Does Ms. Naiad honestly think that kids in Lagos and Rangoon know Brett Favre better than they know, say, George W. Bush?<\/p>\n
Don’t get me wrong – I love the Favre story.\u00a0\u00a0 But let’s not get too <\/em>carried away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Listening to “Morning Edition” this morning. Diana Naiad – “Marketplace”‘s sports-biz commentator – talking about the National Football League and its “best of times\/worst of times” year to date: “…and Brett Favre is as well-known an athlete as Mohammed Ali at his peak”. !!! At his peak, Mohammed Ali was better-known than any world leader, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}