Favre has started 288 consecutive regular season games at quarterback. Add in 24 playoff games and he is, by far, the NFL leader (second place Peyton Manning(notes), 197/215). He?s started every game since Week 4 of the 1992 season, an iron man streak of unfathomable levels (only four other QBs have ever gone over 100 consecutive starts).
Now, here in his 20th season, the streak could be in jeopardy for the most unexpected of reasons. Favre is under ?review? by the NFL for possible sexual harassment involving Sterger, who was an in-stadium sideline reporter for the New York Jets in 2008, when Favre started 16 games for the team.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has shown that enforcing the league?s personal conduct policy is a priority. If Favre is found guilty of harassment ? which includes sending inappropriate photos via text message ? he could be suspended. That?s a big if at this point, but knowing Goodell?s track record, it?s very much a possibility.
If Favre is told to sit, then say goodbye to the Iron Man streak.
?A missed game for any reason ends a consecutive games or consecutive starts streak,? Michael Signora of the NFL?s communications department wrote in an email to Yahoo! Sports.
Of all the bizarre endings to the Favre streak, this would be it.
Even Favre?s toughest critics credit him with remarkable resiliency. He?s been driven into the ground by 300-pound lineman. He?s been slammed in the chest by heat-seeking linebackers. He played the game for many years with reckless abandon, often diving for extra yardage. He dropped back for most of his career on the frozen, and thus unforgiving, tundra of Green Bay.
He?s been sacked 509 times in the regular season alone.
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And yet each time he got up and came back the next week. As the streak has grown through the years, knocking Favre out has become a goal for defensive players.
The one who actually did it with a clean hit would have a forever badge of honor. Detroit Lions rookie defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh(notes), 23, said it?s been a lifelong dream to sack Favre. That?s the kind of target Favre has on his back, generations of kids have been falling asleep with visions of a clear shot at No. 4.
Yet no one has managed to sideline him.
Now, who knows? Favre is accused of doing something that countless players before him have attempted: picking up a woman. Even with the racy details of what Favre sent via text message ? pictures deadspin.com published last week ? it would normally be a private, and hardly newsworthy, matter.
Only in this case he did it to a fellow employee. Sterger was under contract with the Jets to provide in-house entertainment on the Meadowlands Jumbotron. Favre was the team quarterback.
No matter how ridiculous you think this story is, legally it is pretty clear. One employee (let alone a superior) can?t sexually harass another employee. That?s why the NFL is conducting a review. And that?s why, if Favre is found to have done such acts, he will face discipline.
Sterger isn?t pressing legal charges but she did say she?d cooperate with NFL investigators. Two female Jets massage therapists have also come forward in the media with allegations against Favre. The NFL is promising to wrap up the case as soon as possible.
What happens from here is anyone?s guess.
Goodell has not been shy about sitting players or pushing the reach of his power to include off-field incidents involving non-team employees. It may be impossible to let the iconic Favre skate, even if Goodell wished.
In what he claims is his last season, the 41-year-old Favre has proven to be one of the league?s all-time tough guys, the best at avoiding the massive punishment that regularly knocks out quarterbacks.
All those big linemen, all those angry linebackers, all those bullet-train safety blitzes never got him. Now here come some ill-advised text messages, the most unlikely of kryptonite.
Suspension would end Favre's iron-man march - NFL - Yahoo! Sports
Why would you hope he gets suspended? The supposed victim hasn't come out and verified anything. They can't even verify it as being his voice. I think you have jumped the gun and have already declared him guilty. Just be patient and wait and see how it plays out. If he is guilty, he will take his medicine just like everyone else. Also, ESPN is reporting that nobody believes he will be suspended any way. I mean for what? A couple of messages?
Where did I say he would be or declared him guilty? I just would love to see his record broken because of something stupid he did, I loathe the guy, let him break his **** fingers tonight and get suspended for this.
Just another example of why you're the dumbest **** on this board. Why the hell would you wish for someone to get hurt?Originally Posted by R13
Read the title for your thread. FARVE SUSPENSION, WE CAN ONLY HOPE......ENOUGH SAID.
Lmao you do realize he's been wished of breaking far more than that on here, right? Should have thought about that before you go spouting off about it. I said I hope he breaks some fingers, so I don't have to see him for awhile and hopefully for good... what a horrible thing to wish for a guy who is a millionaire several times over and would have to wear some finger splints for a few weeks. hahahaha Stfu.
Yeah, where does it say it was going to happen...when I say "we can only hope" kind of gives you a heads up that I'm not saying any of that. But since you can't understand that, I'm making it clear now.
Excuse me, but I thought that when a person say "WE" that person is including himself among the "WE" grouping.
Yeah that actually is pretty bad to wish for someone to get hurt. He's got one of the most inpressive records in the history of sports and you're too stupid to realize it.
Yeah, I(we) hope he is suspended. Jesus ****, what part of that don't you get?
There's a reason I said fingers and not something like his neck, that's getting off a lot easier than what some said on here, which you were absent when that happened and get your ass in the air when I say I hope he breaks his fingers. And what are you talking about? What have I not realized? What have I denied genius? I just hate him because he's an attention *****.
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