Brett Favre: Too Old for Life, Too Young to Die By John W. Lillpop

On October 10, Brett Lorenzo Favre will turn 39 years old.

In most walks of American life, being 39 allows one the luxury of presuming to be young, even with the big 40 looming ever so ominously.

However, for the past 15 years, Brett Favre has worked as a world class athlete in the National Football League (NFL), an industry in which being 39 is a serious offense, one which is rarely tolerated.

In the isolated instance where an athlete with more than 35 birthdays on his rap sheet is countenanced, the lavish accommodations typically heaped upon 20-something jocks are conspicuously absent.

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