Christopher Penn wrote, “Look for the Lesson” the other day on Escape Velocity’s blog. It’s kind of like serendipitous gleaning. As Penn illustrated, “how much can you learn about innovation from pizza dough?”

The Brett Favre debacle has me grieving as a sports fan. The spider web of trouble for Favre and the Vikings seems to get bigger and uglier by the day (big boost for Deadspin, for sure). But rather than wallow in my sorrow, I thought I’d take a critical look at how Favre fell from grace and see if I can cross-pollinate this a little to social media. Here are three lessons on social media strategy we can learn from Mr. Favre.