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American sports fans might be finding their enjoyment of their favorite games slightly tainted by quarterback Michael Vick's return to the NFL after his conviction for financing a dogfighting ring, or the renewed debate about Pete Rose's life-time ban from baseball. But spare a thought for Europe's rugby fans, whose excitement over the start of a new pro season has been replaced by disgust with the "bloodgate" affair - a scandal involving players faking gory injuries, and sometimes even being mutilated to mask the deception. (See TIME's Top 10 Sporting Comebacks...
...Well, then they really didn't love me in the first place. Whatever.' BRETT FAVRE, former Green Bay Packers quarterback, on his reaction to fans who argue he has tarnished his legacy by vacillating over whether to return to the NFL...
REINSTATED Former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, 29, was conditionally allowed to return to the NFL after serving 18 months in prison for running a dog-fighting ring...
...pass in 2000 to Tennessee Titans wide receiver Kevin Dyson had just reached the end zone--and if the Titans had gone on to beat the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXIV--we'd be memorializing McNair, who was murdered at age 36 on July 4, as an NFL legend. Instead, we'll recall the quarterback, who was reared in small-town Mississippi and drafted out of tiny Alcorn State (Miss.) University, as a supremely gifted workhorse who fought through injuries to patch together an outstanding 13-year career. And sadly, what we'll most remember about Air McNair...
...times during his NFL career, McNair was in so much pain that he couldn't practice. But come Sunday, he'd still suit up and gut out a win. He was a great athlete lost too soon and under unimaginable circumstances...