There was an interesting article on Poynter.org this week about the retirement of Brett Favre. The writer related Favre's on the field ethic to something related in the newsroom. This was a pretty cool approach that was made.
The first approach that the writer made was that Favre loved his job. If you love your job, you're going to want to come to work everyday and do a good job at it. The second point, "leave it all on the field," If you give it all at work, and not have to carry it all home with you, the workers are, once again, likely to do a better job (although, I think this probably wouldn't work as well with journalism due to them always having their eye out on news). Another point I found interesting was to take risks. If you're fearing that you're leaving some juicy information out of the story, it's likely not a very good one. Take the chances.
The best point yet, he consulted with his coaches and gave them credit. If the workers would listen to the editors, the editors are more than likely to give more credit where it's owed. All of the points made in the article are pretty interesting, and are worth reading. The writer made 11 different points and related football back to journalism very well.
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