How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big Budget Flick
“Now, in response to The_Quiet_Earth’s question about time-traveling marines, Erwin started typing. He posted his answer in a series of comments in the thread. Within an hour, he was an online celebrity. Within three hours, a film producer had reached out to him. Within two weeks, he was offered a deal to write a movie based on his Reddit comments. Within two months, he had taken a leave from his job to become a full-time Hollywood screenwriter.
The Final Days of Favre
“There may have been a point where Brett Favre played football because he loved it. But he kept playing it long after it made sense, because he doesn’t know how to do anything else. He never bothered to create another identity. The fact that others conspired to bestow this shallowness with meaning and virtue isn’t Brett Favre’s fault. I use my one question here to ask him about “life after football.” He instantly shoots back, “Is there?” It functions as a laugh line in this room of reporters—and Favre is indeed quite funny in other parts of the presser (“I think my stubbornness, my hardheadedness, and stupidity at times has enabled me to play for twenty years”)—but when Favre says the thing about life after football, he isn’t smiling.
The Dirtiest Player
“Was it only last season that Marvin Harrison was still catching TD passes for Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts? Now, in the wake of a brazen but mysterious Philadelphia gunfight—many details of which are reported here for the first time—the man who holds the NFL record for most receptions in a season may yet find himself with a permanent record of a different sort.
