Stephen Colbert Forcibly Congratulates Brett Favre On His Retirement

The rumored retirements of most athletes usually don’t make their way outside of the incestuous sports blogging community, but then, it’s not every day that Brett Favre announces his plans to (maybe) leave the NFL (it just feels like a daily occurrence). And so it was Favre’s news, the walking meme himself, that led Tuesday nights Colbert Report.

↵It’s not really so much a goodbye as it is a threat.

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↵“If you do un-retire again, let me be the first to say, I will stab you in the eyeball with a broken broom handle.”