When Favre Finally Throws, Will It Be Up?
A candid Brett Favre said Thursday he is so nervous about the Super Bowl that he “may throw up” before the game.
“I may throw it up into the third deck of the Superdome on the first play,” said the two-time NFL MVP.
“Heck,” said Favre, who will be playing in his first Super Bowl, “I don’t know what Brett Favre will do. I may come out and light it up or maybe I’ll come out and be awful.”
For sure, said the Green Bay quarterback, “I’ll start out the game overly excited.”
The fact that he is going home to play in the Super Bowl is good, said Favre, because of the distractions from his friends and family in nearby Kiln, Miss.
“I think the distractions part of it will help me,” he said. “If I had to sit in a hotel room for seven days, just waiting for the game to start, I think I’d go crazy.”
Bledsoe’s already sick
Film study, practice and chicken soup are all part of Drew Bledsoe’s preparation for the biggest game of his life.
The New England Patriots quarterback spent two days nursing a cold then went out on a rainy day as his team held its first practice for the Super Bowl since Monday.
“I just laid around and let my mom and my wife take care of me,” Bledsoe said. “Threw some chicken soup down my throat and watched a lot of TV. It was pretty relaxing.”
Bledsoe said his cold didn’t contribute to his mediocre play in last Sunday’s 20-6 victory over Jacksonville in the AFC championship game. He completed 20 of 33 for 178 yards, one interception and no touchdowns. He also lost a fumble.
“Of all nights to be sick,” Bledsoe said, “after you win the AFC championship and you don’t even get to go out and celebrate. Hopefully, we’ll be able to celebrate in a couple of weeks.”
Standing behind his client
A woman charged with filing a false police report implicating two Dallas football players in a sexual assault was a rape victim, her lawyer contended.
Nina Shahravan, 23, turned herself in at the Dallas County jail about 5 p.m. Thursday and posted $500 bond on a misdemeanor charge of perjury.
Shahravan refused comment as deputies ushered her in the jail’s back door, but her lawyer, David Smith, denied that she had lied in her accusations against Cowboys stars Michael Irvin and Erik Williams.
“I don’t believe my client is guilty,” Smith said. “My client doesn’t believe she’s guilty of any offense. I represent the victim of a rape.”
Around the league
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