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PoliticoDadio -- Favre - we never noticed he could not construct complete sentences
This entry was posted on 7/17/2008 3:37 AM and is filed under PoliticoDadio,Cool Dadio Sports Desk.
This Cool Dadio Media exclusive just in: Realizing the last time he had a real job outside of football was perhaps some job like paper boy at 12 years old, Brett Favre panics, ends his three-month retirement and decides he needs to play the game until he can collect Social Security - just to be safe. Favre to return to somebody's game.
Unlike Phil Simms, Troy Aikman, and heaven forbid Howie Long (a "defensive" player for god's sake - we all know they can't spell cat if we spot them the 'c' and the 't'), Brett Favre, instead of tooling up for a career after f-o-o-t-b-a-l-l like sports announcing or color commentary, decides the only marketable skill he has outside of the game is whining. But to Favre's credit, to my knowledge, actually none of the actors squabbling with and including Favre have ever mentioned that, yes this icon career/retirement thing is complicated, but, a whole bunch of military service people have died in the last seven years in Afghanistan and Iraq and well, that kind of thing is far more important than my fat ego.
Nice going elitist sports putzes. We knew if given a chance you would muck up your images yet again - we did not have to wait long - of course!
Wisconsin military service person of the week
Army Captain John F. Kurth, 31, of Columbus died Saturday, March 13, 2004 in Tikrit, Iraq. Kurth was one of two soldiers killed by a roadside bomb. John was a member of Company B, 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Associated Press, Captain Kurth had been in Iraq less than one month. His unit patrolled roads in and around Tikrit. He had been based in Schweinfurt Germany for the three years prior to his death. His company had been dispatched to Iraq in rotation of forces. The Journal Sentinel also mentioned John went by "Hans," he had played on the 1991 high school championship football team, and had graduated West Point in 1995. Kurth had also served in the 82nd Airborne. Captain Kurth had also served two tours in Kosovo. Captain John R. Kurth was the 12th Wisconsin military service person to be killed in Iraq.
As of this blog entry's posting date:
85,966 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
8,440 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,120 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
552 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
314 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
331 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
30,349 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
2,190 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
90 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
10 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
129 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
15 journalists (various nationalities) have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
Soldier of the week, military casualty, and journalist casualty information sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; cnn.com; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; washingtonpost.com; thehighground.org; Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs; iraqbodycount.org; and, icasualties.org.
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