The storybook ending to Brett Favre's career would've gone like this: Mr. Funball leads his Minnesota Vikings to a clutch win in the NFC Championship, then presides over a Super Bowl demolition of the Indianapolis Colts. In the victorious post-SB locker room, Favre wins MVP honors, publicly defecates on a Packers banner, and then returns to Mississippi for a month-long Vicodin bender during which a half-dozen teams court him for yet another "comeback." Alas, that isn't how it unfolded. Favre's decidedly un-clutch 4th-quarter INT last night may be—we hope—his last play as a professional football player. Hate him or hate him, that's a shitty way to go out.
'Course, Favre isn't the only sports superstar to end his career with a whimper. From Muhammad Ali to Michael Jordan, here's our list of great athletes who left on a losing note...
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