Landon Donovan and David Beckham Write Next Chapter of Brett Favre Story

… Unintentionally, anyway. David Beckham is an overpaid soccer player and in the mind of Landon Donovan, not a good teammate.

“All that we care about at a minimum is that he committed himself to us,” Donovan was quoted as saying in an excerpt of Grant Wahl’s book “The Beckham Experiment,” scheduled for publication on July 14. “As time has gone on, that has not proven to be the case in many ways - on the field, off the field.

“Does the fact that he earns that much money come into it? Yeah. If someone’s paying you more than anybody in the league, more than double anybody in the league, the least we expect is that you show up to every game, whether you’re suspended or not. Show up and train hard. Show up and play hard.”

“I can’t think of another guy where I’d say he wasn’t a good teammate, he didn’t give everything through all this, he didn’t still care,” Donovan said. “But with (Beckham) I’d say no, he wasn’t committed.”

Wow; that sounds awfully similar to the opinions of Thomas Jones and Kerry Rhodes regarding Our Favre and his time with the Jets. It also sounds similar to the views of Vikings linebacker Chad Greenway — and that’s before Favre is even a teammate.

At this stage of his career, David Beckham is famous for being David Beckham — not for being the best soccer player in the world. Likewise for Favre being famous for being Favre — not for being a quality starting quarterback.

When Beckham and Favre both retire for good (for real), I propose we create a town hall meeting with former Packers, Jets, Vikings and Galaxy teammates to talk about the pampering and selfishness that exudes from Our Favre and the soccer player who likes rope around his own body.

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