{"id":2933,"date":"2009-08-21T10:15:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T14:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2009-08-21T10:15:59","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T14:15:59","slug":"brett-farve-40-year-old-phenom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/08\/21\/brett-farve-40-year-old-phenom\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Farve, 40 Year Old Phenom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"www.bu.edu\/sed\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2937 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/08\/football1.jpg\" alt=\"football\" width=\"137\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"www.bu.edu\/sed\">School of Education<\/a> Professor and Sports Psychologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goterriers.com\/genrel\/zaichkowsky_drlen00.html\">Len Zaichkowsky<\/a> has his own theory on why NFL quarterback Brett Farve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/football\/nfl\/vikings\/2009-08-20-brett-favre-cover_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip\">decided not to retire<\/a>:<em> &#8220;..this is what he knows, he&#8217;s a football player, a professional quarterback, and he knows he&#8217;s one of the best&#8221; <\/em>and what it will take for Favre to finally leave the game: <em>&#8220;..what really gets them out for good is that they realize that their skills have deteriorated, there are people that are better players than they are, they don&#8217;t want to embarrass themselves&#8221;<\/em> To hear more of what Len thinks about Favre, contact him at sport@bu.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School of Education Professor and Sports Psychologist Len Zaichkowsky has his own theory on why NFL quarterback Brett Farve decided not to retire: &#8220;..this is what he knows, he&#8217;s a football player, a professional quarterback, and he knows he&#8217;s one of the best&#8221; and what it will take for Favre to finally leave the game: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1609,765,1610],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2940,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions\/2940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}