Sports Briefs: The Day Brett Favre and the Giant Cheese Sticks Came to My Town

During a Sunday School class a couple years ago, I participated in a game of lies.

I was supposed to tell two truths and one lie about myself, and my classmates were supposed to guess which statement was a falsification.

Being new to the class, I thought it would behoove me to reveal something funny/embarrassing about myself, so my three sentences were: "I once stole from a church (felt farm animals)," along with "I've written a book" and some dastardly lie. 

Rather than reading the sentences ourselves, the teacher insisted on reading everyone's, while the rest of the class was forced to guess who wrote what. And, of course, the teacher had trouble reading mine and was confused by the introduction of parenthesis.

He began sweating as he read "I once stole from the church," before stumbling across "I once felt up farm animals." At this point he was looking noticeably shaken, as the rest of the class glanced around the room in horror, believing there to be a pervert and thief in their midst.

"Uh, let's move on to another one," he said, clearly contemplating turning in my sentences to the authorities from PETA.

I didn't attend the class again.

A sporting world equivalent of said exercise would be this: No. 1: "Brett Favre visited Waco, Texas, this past week." No. 2: "Kobe Bryant has never publicly admitted to cannibalism." And No. 3: "I eat bananas with my feet."

As is often the case, being the sleuth journalist that I am, I discovered that Favre did, in fact, visit my town, Waco, on Saturday. Of course, I was able to ascertain this information two days after it occurred and had been publicized in the newspaper, on the Internet and on TV.

Clearly, this is a valid reason to watch more TV, a reason I will take to heart.

Favre was in Waco to promote the pre-grand opening of the first fitness, sports skills and life training center for youngerts in the country. Young Champions is the name of Favre's business venture, and it's also what he was when he won a Super Bowl 10 years ago.