The veteran 40-year-old quarterback just led the Minnesota Vikings to the conference playoffs\u2013and within a whisker of the Superbowl\u2013at an age when most of his peers have either faded to minor teams or hung up their cleats altogether.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
But with Brett Favre, who knows?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As a broken-hearted Minnesota Vikings fan…you decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\u2013and within a whisker of the Superbowl\u2013at an age when most of his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8261"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8265,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261\/revisions\/8265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}