Recently, within the realm of weekly college fooball picks, the Hampton Forecast, ran by Jacob Hampton, has come back from the dead. It has jumped from the dismal position of dead last to a respectable second place. Readers worldwide have been asking the question: How did he do it? The Blue House Lives Sports Network has recently received an exclusive conversation between Hampton and Brett Favre. Perhaps this will shed some light.
The conversation was sent to this publication following Week 9. Here is the text as The Blue House Lives received it:
Favre obviously uses Jacob Hampton as inspiration.
A lot of our readers probably thought I should just throw in the towel after another losing effort Week Five. I tried to walk away, but I couldn’t. I just love playing the game too much. I knew I had to go to my hero for inspiration, and tracked down Brett Favre. The questions I asked him are solely responsible for my comback:
“Brett, after being cast out by the organization you personally rebuilt you go to a practically non-existent Jets team and if not for an untimely injury you would have won the Super Bowl, we all know that.”
“Correct.”
“Then you come back again and take a good, but not great Vikings team and turn them into arguably the best team in the league. What’s your secret?”
“I drink a metric shit-ton of Powerade.”
“Really? Powerade?”
“Yes, that’s pretty much it.”
“Well, how long have you been drinking Powerade?”
“Pretty much my whole career. Most of the guys go with Gatorade, but it really doesn’t work that well.”
“Really? I thought it was the standard?
“Nah, they pretty much just use it to pour on people. I’ve drank it two times in my career and both times were disasterous.”
“Please, do tell.”
“Well the first time was Super Bowl XXXII, Elway and Sharpe drank all of my Powerade pregame and replaced it with the stuff. Everyone knows how that turns out.”
“Was the 2nd time during 2005 by chance?”
“It was. Before the first game of the season I was craving something different. I never dreamed that decision would haunt the next two years of my life.”
“Is there one flavor that outshines the others?”
“I’ve been partial the the blue and the red for years, and if you pour them together they create something fantastic. Purple.”
“Don’t they sell a grape?”
“Yeah, but it isn’t as good as when you create it yourself, you know what I mean.”
“I believe I do.”
Apparantly I did. Since then, I’ve made a full recovery, going 21 and 6 over the past four weeks. I’m no longer ashamed to show my face around the Blue House, and more importantly I’m happy once again.
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