Have you ever seen a movie so tragically terrible that you can’t fathom why anyone would have the bad sense to make it? You know the kind.  Asinine storyline, stupid plot twists, annoying protagonists.  The kind you walk out of saying, “There’s two hours of my life that would have been more productively spent reading Tim McCarver’s Diamond Gems.” (Think Ishtar.)

Fortunately, most of the time these movies do so poorly at the box office, that no one would ever dream of making a sequel.  But this is not always the case.  Like, The Santa Clause.  They made a sequel out of that.  And in this same spirit of more is more — even when the more in question is more drek — Fav-ruh is gracing the covers of sports pages everywhere with a The Santa Clause caliber sequel of the crappy movie that is the last year of his life.

That’s right.  Fav-ruh has maybe decided to emerge from his theoretical retirement. Again.  Which makes sense.  Because it worked out so well for him the last time he did that.  (Remember, for example, that time he threw twenty-two interceptions?)

Despite having told the Jets that he was through with football (more accurately, I think football is through with him), Fav-ruh is reportedly meeting with Vikings head coach Brad Childress to discuss the possibility of yet another unretirement.  Where, you ask, are they meeting?  At an undisclosed location.  Obviously.  This is, after all, a really crappy sequel.

The good news, of course, is that if Fav-ruh remains a focal point in the news, it might actually give me the chance to finally get around to reading Tim McCarver’s epic body of writing.  I hear that Baseball For Brain Surgeons and Other Fans: Understanding and Interpreting the Game. so You Can Watch it Like a Pro is supposed to be a classic.  The title alone explains why so much of the stuff that McCarver has to say about so many things makes such little sense.  Obviously, it’s directed towards those among us who happen to be brain surgeons.

And here I just thought he was an ineffective communicator all that time.