Retiring Legends of Sport

Rudy Thomjonovitch*, the man who cheated death, is resigning as Laker's coach after half a season with that lunatic Kobe and those other spares. One has to ask: what did the man expect? Anyway, he's the first legend to fall. But there were rumors of other, more legendary legends also contemplating retirement:

Emmitt "The Forehead" Smith, career NFL rushing leader and the man whose helmet-removing endzone celebrations caused the league to institute a special penalty for taking you helmet off on the field, and the man whose forehead was studied by NASA for use in the space program as a possible launch pad, it was that huge...announced that he will probably announce his retirement during this Super Bowl Week. He had a pretty good season last year even though he's old, but he's hanging it up anyway.

Brett Favre, 13-year QB for my beloved Green Bay Packers, is rumored to be contemplating leaving the game. I can totally see why(considering the deaths in his family and his kids growing and his wife having cancer), and even though this was the Mike sports equivalent of a nuke dropping on my head, I do not begrudge him at all. Donald Driver, a local Packer receiver and a guy who apparently talks to Favre a lot, told a radio station that he thinks Brett's going to call it quits. This is not set in stone, and it will only sink in for me if and when it happens. First Reggie White dies, and now this. Now all we need is for Leroy Butler to move to Guam, and we'll have some sort of bizarre trifecta.

*No matter how I try I can't get that last name spelled to my satisfaction. Mmm...satisfaction.