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Boy retires Favre jersey after wearing it for 1,581 days straight
The kid's dad says: "His last day wearing the [Brett Favre] jersey was April 23, which was his 12th birthday. It was tough for him for awhile but now that he's 12, he is a little more concerned about his appearance. And the jersey barely came down to his beltline." The story doesn't say how often the shirt was laundered. (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
May 6, 2008 | Permalink
Comments
Weird, but there are lway ess healthy fixations out there.
I assume they were cleaning the damn thing on a regular basis.
Posted by: elchampino | May 6, 2008 6:06:54 AM
wow what a fun typo that was
Posted by: elchampino | May 6, 2008 6:07:19 AM
A similar article on espn.com said the mother washed the jersey daily.
That's some serious dedication.
Posted by: chiarams | May 6, 2008 6:12:56 AM
Elchampino let me pour you a cup of coffee while I laugh out loud over your awesome typo.
Posted by: The Asshole Guy | May 6, 2008 6:36:56 AM
It's cute now, but these little rabid sports fans grow up one day to annoy the ever living and most Holy and High *Wizadry* out of us all with their annoying over the top rah go team antics.
I once saw a Philadelphia Eagles fan pin a Dallas Cowboys jersey to a light pole in the Eagles parking lot before a game, bellow DALLAS SUCKS!!! YEAH!!! GO EAGLES!!! and run straight into it full speed, topple on his back and lay still. We cheered his limp body, although I'm sure only some people were doing it ironically.
Posted by: sometimesilie | May 6, 2008 6:38:37 AM
I can't believe he didn't outgrow it
Posted by: mak | May 6, 2008 7:02:11 AM
Chia, you answered my question...I was wondering about the cleanliness of this jersey. I'm amazed that it held up to that many daily washings!
Posted by: jojo | May 6, 2008 7:10:16 AM
She probably was using CHEER!
Posted by: Cherie | May 6, 2008 7:27:10 AM
Ugh.
Posted by: Sigh | May 6, 2008 7:57:19 AM
Side note: Jim...that "Frontiers" ad is much easier to deal with. Seriously the other one just gave me the creeps. Wonder if this one will get as many hits?
Posted by: Cherie | May 6, 2008 8:14:08 AM
Yeah. I sure liked that bidet 'tush' a lot better than that disturbing Frontiers ad. Then again, I don't enjoy those slasher/gore horror films anyway. I am kinda worried about those who do enjoy them.
Posted by: Sigh | May 6, 2008 8:17:28 AM
Cherie, I clicked on the new one. Old one skeeved me out too. I read around their little website and than I checked it out on imdb. Sounds like the director is using the old "Nazis are bad, see what happens when..." excuse too...rednecks don't really exist in tightly packed cosmopolitan Europe to the extent they do down wrong turn lane in Rural Americana. I'll take up to and including Texas Chainsaw or House of Wax (actually kind of boring, liked seeing PH getting impaled, loved the concept of a whole taxidermied town) but this torture porn stuff turns my stomach. Blech.
Posted by: sometimesilie | May 6, 2008 8:30:41 AM
Additional Alternative plot for creeped out ad viewers
Boy has been told he has to visit grandparents instead of playing Grand Theft Auto IV.
Girl can't BELIEVE her parents made her wear this total dork of a dress for her first day at school.
Posted by: nellagain | May 6, 2008 8:37:12 AM
I know tons of people that wear the same shirt every day. Charlie brown, Dennis the Menace, Calivn, Superman, The list is endless.
Posted by: boynamedsue | May 6, 2008 9:28:08 AM
What a young age to start obsessing over a single shirt. Would any of you parents out there allow your kid to wear the same exact thing every day, for even a month?
Posted by: Reno | May 6, 2008 9:43:30 AM
George Jetson, Underdog, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, Freddie, Homer, Bart...
Posted by: troschne | May 6, 2008 9:46:18 AM
I dunno Reno, I've seen little kids (3 to 5) with slavish devotion to a particular shirt, in one case to cowboy boots. Not too mention draggin a "blankie" around.
12 seems a little old for that, but if its washed and so is he, then no trouble.
Posted by: nellagain | May 6, 2008 9:54:01 AM
I WOULD THINK IT NEEDS A BIT OF AIRING OUT
Posted by: ULTRA | May 6, 2008 10:21:13 AM
