So other than the release of the latest iPhone (which has been tearing up tech sites and blogs this week….more on that later, maybe), big news this weekend involves Bret Favre coming back to the Green Bay Packers. I’ve always thought of Favre as a reasonably “classy” player, a franchise player from an earlier era of “old school” football. When he retired at the end of last season, I felt that it was appropriate. Favre isn’t at the peak of his career, in fact I’d say he’s slightly beyond that peak - fighting a losing battle with time as he ages and becomes more injury-prone. He had a good season, and it seemed like a good time to exit gracefully.
Now, though, “retiring” at the end of the season apparently means “taking the summer off”. That’s not a damn retirement, it’s a summer vacation. Am I retiring from my job when I take two weeks off for a trip? What the hell is the world coming to? The whole situation is a mess - Favre, did you see what happened when Michael Jordan “retired”?
The End of American Beer?
The other big news lately is further proceedings in international brewing giant InBev’s desire to take over Anheuser-Busch. Today’s report basically makes it sound like it’s as good as done. I’m normally all for the free market and unfettered capitalism; hell, the whole globalization thing is currently biting me in the ass, that’s how it goes. But come on - an arguable American icon is going to become yet another cog in the European machine? How did this happen? There should be some things that are off limits. What has A-B been doing to allow something like this to happen?
What will the NASCAR fans think when they’re beloved Budweiser might as well be a Becks, St. Pauli Girl, or Labatt’s?
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