Twenty-three years in the past, Packers quarterback Brett Favre took a dive to present Giants defensive finish Michael Strahan the single-season sack report. Everybody is aware of it.
Everybody together with Mark Gastineau.
The former Jets move rusher, who held the report earlier than Favre handed it to Strahan, nonetheless holds a grudge concerning the second. The proof seems within the upcoming 30 for 30 documentary on the New York Sack Exchange.
Last 12 months, Gastineau and Favre interacted at a memorabilia present. It begins when Favre approaches Gastineau in a pleasant, unsuspecting method. Gastineau was not pleasant.
Favre tells Gastineau he thinks they’ve met as soon as earlier than.
“Yeah, proper — once you fell down for him,” Gastineau says, by way of Rich Cimini of ESPN.com. “I’m going to get my sack again. I’m going to get my sack again, dude.”
Favre thinks which means Gastineau goes to sack Favre.
“You in all probability would harm me,” Favre says.
“Well, I don’t care,” Gastineau says. “You harm me. You harm me! You hear me?”
“Yeah, I hear you,” Favre says.
“You actually harm me,” Gastineau says. “You actually harm me, Brett.”
Favre didn’t do it to harm Gastineau. Favre was doing Strahan a favor. Gastineau can also be upset with the person who benefited from the phony sack.
He thinks Strahan and Favre conspired. Gastineau plans to let Strahan hear about it, in some unspecified time in the future.
“I’ve been wanting to try this for a very long time — many, a few years,” Gastineau advised ESPN.com. “I’ve solely received another man to go to.”
T.J. Watt has since tied the all-time report of twenty-two.5. Which signifies that, so far as anybody must be involved, Watt holds the report alone.
