Favre and Shaq

I'm getting sick of hearing everybody blast Brett Favre and Shaquille O'Neal for wanting to keep playing sports and win championships. I heard Jason Whitlock on Jim Rome's radio show saying Shaq was a groupie for going to play with Lebron. I hear people call Favre a baby for wanting to play another year in Minnesota.

Yes, these guys are selfish. We all are. But to say they're people of low character because they're approaching forty and want to keep playing games is more of an indictment on how important we think sports are in our culture. Revolutions are brewing in other countries. Our economy is being shredded. Very few of our leaders seem to have an ounce of reality in their approaches to solving the problems. But we reserve our outrage for a couple old guys (hardly) who want to keep playing sports for a living.

Again, I know they're both selfish. I hear teammates of both saying it's true. But wanting to play another year and possibly win another championship doesn't deserve the negative coverage it's receiving.