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With footage emerging of former Jets defensive end Mark Gastineau accosting former Packers quarterback Brett Favre for taking a dive to help former Giants defensive end Michael Strahan set the single-season sack record in 2001, Favre has taken to Twitter to tell his side of the story.
In so doing, Favre says he wasn’t trying to hurt Gastineau. Favre admits, however, that “maybe it crossed my mind” to help Strahan during the final game of the 2001 season, which ended with Strahan getting a record-setting gimme sack from Favre..
Favre also takes issue with the decision to record and publicize the 2023 interaction between Gastineau and Favre.
Favre’s full Twitter thread, in which he starts by calling the incident a “small dustup,” appears below.
“Back in 2002, when Michael Strahan sacked me at the end of a game that we had wrapped up, I was in no way trying to hurt Mark Gastineau,” Favre wrote. “I was trying to close out a game and squeeze the last bit of fun out of a hard-fought game. . . . I booted out of a run thinking it would be wide open, saw Strahan standing there and ducked down. The game was over. There was no need for me to do anything spectacular. It probably wasn’t Michael’s best sack or tackle for loss.
“In a different game or situation, I would have made a bigger effort to avoid the sack or TFL. But at no point was I thinking about hurting Gastineau. Maybe it crossed my mind to help Strahan. I didn’t think it through. That wasn’t my forte at the time. I just wanted to have fun and compete. In retrospect, I understand how Gastineau feels. We played a brutal game. Gastineau played during an era where guys didn’t make generational wealth.
“I see now how being the Sack King would elevate his value at card shows, strengthen his case for the Hall of Fame, increase his demand as a public speaker. I had no way of knowing that then. I realize now the potential financial implications because football is far more business-oriented than when me or Mark…
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Author : ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports
Publish date : 2024-12-11 01:38:00
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