Brett Favre has seen the tape of the retirements of Annika Sorenstam and Justine Henin today and says they were pretty good, for girls. "I like what they did with the whole, I'm so happy for all the support I've received from my fans and I'm happy to have had such a great career," said Favre. "But they really needed some more tears. That's how a man retires, with a boatload of embarassing tears and sobbing, maybe to the point where we can't make a comprehensive sentence. You need to think about all the years you spent out there with the boys, and how you'll never be able to take a post-game shower with them again. You just really miss the comraderie of the showers, and the smell of clean men ready to go back to their daily lives. You also think about how you sacrificed your ability to get hard because of all the steroids and supplements you took over the years. I'm tearing up right now just thinking about my flaccidity."
Indeed, much of the sports pundits are wondering why women's sports retirements don't receive the same fanfare as men's. Many say it's the lack of intensity in the female retirement game. "They just don't retire as hard as the men," said Jorge Rivera, a big retirement fan. "You look at a woman retire and you just feel so-so about it. But some of these guys train their entire lives for this moment. This is the time when they can get really pretentious and wax poetic about their selves for a good 30 minutes on national TV. It's just a better game, I can't watch the women do it."
Many are pointing to young golf phenom Michelle Wie as a woman who might be able to create successful crossover buzz to the female retirement game. She has been in the national spotlight since she was around 14, and could get a lot under her belt before a teary retirement in her 30's or 40's.
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