Green Bay Packers Trade Brett Favre to New York Jets

**Skiz** · 08-09-2008, 05:00 AM

I'll give you four.

I enjoyed Jordan's comeback, but not after going to the Wizards. His initial comeback was to the Bulls and they won another 3 championships with him. I remember that clearly b/c that was after my Rockets won 2 in a row.

Roger Clemens. He came back to win a Cy Young with my Astros.

Lance Armstrong came back and won the Tour De France, again.

Mario LeMieux (spelling?) retired twice and came back possibly better than he was before.

**MaaxHimself** · 08-09-2008, 05:36 AM

"Please MJ! Come Back, please come back, please" - Magic Johnson

**Skiz** · 08-09-2008, 06:38 AM

George Foreman came back too. After being retired for something like 20 years, he won the Heavyweight belt.

**IdolEyes787** · 08-09-2008, 11:33 AM

Lance Armstrong never came back from retirement.He was dropped by Cofidis because he couldn't honour the terms of his contract(to compete in four races during the year).

Mario Lemieux,a total class act and the greatest player ever(better than Gretzky by a country mile) also only made one comeback from retirement.His first break was indefinite leave due to medical condition.
Stats aside he never attained the magic that he had before.I think a little of the joie de vivre had left him.

And I think Favre should have hung them up.He's destroying the reason everyone loved him so much in the first place.
It wasn't that he would throw a touchdown pass.I was that he would exuberantly tackle his own teammate after doing so.
Can't see that happening anymore.
In his defense must be damn hard to walk away though.

**Skiz** · 08-09-2008, 05:58 PM

I think Farve should have retired as well.... once he said he was going to. He proved last year that he still had it and should had just kept on keepin on, if that's what suited him.

I've gone and looked at stats on Lemieux (

) and I recalled, he did rather well.

But in 2000, Lemieux turned his focus back to the ice. He came of out retirement to finish with the highest points-per-game average among players that season. He was also a finalist for Hart Memorial Trophy en route to helping the Penguins advance to the Eastern Conference finals.

**IdolEyes787** · 08-09-2008, 06:34 PM

Just to be clear Lemieux is a Canadian hero and I was I no way disparaging him.

I guess the point I was trying to get at(it's in there somewhere,maybe

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Is that retiring by choice and being forced out of the game are two vastly different things.

An athlete like Favre defines himself to a great extent by being a football player.
Since he was a very small boy that's all he's done that's all he's dreamt of.

For a guy like him retiring essentially takes away his identity.That's why he couldn't deal with it.
Even though he thought that's what he wanted at the time now he wakes up and doesn't know you he is.
Before it was easy get, up eat ,go to the field.

I'm not the least bit surprised he unretired but I doubt that he will find any joy in it.His time has passed and deep down he knows it after all that's why he retired in the first place.

It's the athletes who already have other interests/businesses who deal with retirement better.