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I did not know she was from another country.....that is a pretty good excuse.Ok everybody be nice to cerette- she isn't from the US! She has an excuse....
Brett Favre has been the quarterback for the Green Bay Packers (Wisconsin) NFL football team for 18 yrs or so. He has been a pretty awesome QB, setting lots of records- very beloved to Packer fans. Hope that helps!
Does Brett Favre really seem like the announcer type to you? He doesn't seem like one for the professional speaking business..I'm not a football fan, but I do know who Brett is. I don't understand why everybody is so upset though. It's not like you're never gonna see this guy again. Won't Brett just join the other ex-football players who have been put out to pasture in the the announcers booth? That's what seems to happen in pretty much every sport.
I think you're right, according to what I was told about his interview yesterday...Does Brett Favre really seem like the announcer type to you? He doesn't seem like one for the professional speaking business..
No..I bet he'll spend his days with beer in one hand, steering whell to his tractor in the other..
Does Brett Favre really seem like the announcer type to you? He doesn't seem like one for the professional speaking business..
No..I bet he'll spend his days with beer in one hand, steering whell to his tractor in the other..
I'm not saying everything that Brett Favre has done is worth while and useful, but he and his wife donate much to charity. They also have started some charities. Just before Reggie White died, he and Brett were planning another charity.Yes, well, we've paid him quite well to play a child's game long enough. Perhaps it's time he did something useful
Well, he has done a couple of commercials and did have a bit part in There's Something About Mary, if I recall correctly. So who knows? Stranger things have happened. Like Ben Stiller actually having a career due to playing the same character in every movie. LOLDoes Brett Favre really seem like the announcer type to you? He doesn't seem like one for the professional speaking business..
No..I bet he'll spend his days with beer in one hand, steering whell to his tractor in the other..
I'm not saying everything that Brett Favre has done is worth while and useful, but he and his wife donate much to charity. They also have started some charities. Just before Reggie White died, he and Brett were planning another charity.
He has given much more to our communities than football. Also, football is the talent that God gave him. He was no angel...but neither am I.
As for farmers.....my husband has worked with farmers his whole life. He has been one himself. They lead a hard life, and I give them much credit. But, I also know that farmers need to treat their farms as a business. There are many successful farmers out there. They are excellent managers. It's not a hobby, it's a business.
My little rant....
And I agree, sports figures do make too much money. And many blow it on nonsense.
And I agree, sports figures do make too much money. And many blow it on nonsense.
Whew...there I was on the soapbox. Stude, you can have it back.
Yes, well, we've paid him quite well to play a child's game long enough. Perhaps it's time he did something useful and productive after retirement.
We pay far too much to people who are non-productive in our society. Who are the highest paid amoungst our people? Actors, Golfers, Sports stars (Football, Basket ball, etc...), and politicians. God forbid we should pay people who actually DO something usefull!
I get so tired hearing people carp and whine about the prices in the local stores around here (in Trinity County). Yet, when they discuss sports, none of that comes up. They have no problem with ball players demanding salaries in the millions. Yet the poor woman who has the store up the street hears complaints about how expensive bread, milk and beer cost. She has to drive her own truck thirty to forty miles to pick up supplies and is expected to do it for free.Go figure.
Sorry if that sounds like a rant. Still, I get sick of hearing about sports stars when the local businesspeople and pastors (the real heros in our country not to mention the vanishing family farmer) are just barely scraping by. It's like the title of a book I want to get, "This Present Insanity".
That is one gross show, LL!I hear ya, Stude!!
Did you ever see the show Dirty Jobs? THOSE are the people who should be making megabucks!!!
And speaking of schools...wouldn't it be a wonderful thing indeed if we treated our teachers like we treat our professional sports players? If we gave them the money they deserve. I mean, after all, if it weren't for many of these teachers getting these kids started in these sports, we wouldn't HAVE these professional sports teams in the first place.
We need to give our kids better role models...and I, for one, think that our teachers, the men and women who get up everyday and work 10, 12, 14 hours a day(!!!) often using their own money to make sure the kids in their classrooms have the basic needs...tissues, pencils, paper, sometimes even food. And they do it year after year with pretty much no help from parents, the government...anyone.
I would be in favor of paying public school teachers more if they actually did anything to get paid for. Public schools in this country are a joke. They are cesspools of immorailty and ignorance. The teachers and their unions have ruined education in this country. If they are so great, why do we have a growing number of kids graduating high school who cannot read or write, and why do the standardized test score of US students rank among the lowest in the world?
Where do you live?? Certainly no where I've ever been or heard of. Public schools are way over funded by the government for the level of education they provide. It costs public schools twice as much to educate a child for one year than it does a private or parochial school, and the level of education from the private and parochial schools is much higher.
All schools should be competitive. And we need vouchers!!!
There. My rant.
And if more parents were involved in what their kids were doing instead of trying to be their friends, perhaps maybe the teachers could actually teach instead of having to spend 95% of class disciplining the students.
Parents these days (except for the rare few) don't send their kids to school for an education, they send them there for the free babysitting. They don't get involved.
I see that you and I are on 2 sides of the same fight.Meaning, I totally agree with what you're saying and I think that what you're saying really meshes well with what I'm saying...if I could just say it better than I have.
Kae
I agree entirely with you Revrand. My youngest son was taught recognition reading and can't read worth beans. Vouchers would be a Godsend for the educational system in this country. Sadly, if that system were instituted, the Federal Government would horn in on what private schools are teaching. Then again, if we were giving out vouchers, the savings to the state would make it possible to refuse Federal funding for our schools thereby eliminating their leverage.
I hear that the California supreme court has decreed that all home schoolers must have the same credentials as professional teachers to teach their own children. Ah yes, isn't it great when the courts begin to legislate? Especially when the winners are the teachers union????
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