Roger Clemens Indicted; Brett Favre's Back
HOLMES: Well, 47 minutes past the hour. Two huge sports stories to breakdown this morning. The first of which is about one of baseball's greatest pitchers. He's about to face one of his biggest challenges. Not on a mound though, in a courtroom; Roger Clemens indicted by federal prosecutors on six counts of false statements and perjury for allegedly lying to Congress about his use of performance enhancing drugs. He always said he has not used them. Charges stem from his testimony before Congress in February of 2008. The other big story, Brett Favre is back again. He's been called wishy-washy. He's been called a diva, a media hog, a show boat; he is all cash money however on game day. Millions of people tuned in to watch him when he played last November when he faced his old team the Green Bay Packers. Thirty million people tuned in. That's second only to the super bowl for a Sunday night Fox football game. Let's bring in our business sports analyst and friend of our show here on CNN SATURDAY MORNING, Rick Horrow. Good morning to you buddy. How are you doing?</s>RICK HORROW, CNN BUSINESS SPORTS ANALYST: Yes, sir. Absolutely fantastic. How are you doing?</s>HOLMES: I am well. It's good to see you. Here we go again though; another high-profile athlete dealing with some charges, if you will, of using steroids. But how does this change -- let's take it in two different parts. Does this change the way people in baseball ever felt about Roger Clemens over the past several years? People suspected that he has used?</s>HORROW: Two sets of numbers. Look at the numbers. It's 4,600, 72 strike outs and 374 wins. That's not what's relevant here. What's relevant here is the three numbers: counts of obstruction of justice, false statements, and perjury. This is serious business, an indictment obviously. He's not convicted at this point. There's a presumption of innocence. Having said that, though, you've got this trial coming up; Barry Bonds has a similar trial coming up in March. Miguel Tejada pled guilty and was sentenced to probation over the same issues, about lying to Congress. You can cover up, but lying to Congress is a serious, serious matter. Of course, it's going to affect how people perceive them.</s>HOLMES: What should he do? What do we know about cases like these in the past? Prosecutors, these are tough cases to prove. Well, they're tough cases to prove, but the conviction rate for prosecutors is very, very high once these indictments are filed. So I'm not dispensing legal advice. I am a lawyer but I certainly am not going to give him that advice and the advice so far has been come clean. In his mind he has come clean, but there his direct physical evidence with syringes by his personal trainer on the other side of it. Now, there's a chain of custody issue. There are legal issues that people have to deal with. But the bottom line is, there is just a difference beyond the normal "he said, she said" which impacts perjury indictments. This may be stronger.</s>HOLMES: One more thing quickly on this case. Why did it take so long -- why did it take two years? They've been working on this case for two years?</s>HORROW: Working on this case, gathering the evidence, getting the testimony. There's this Mitchell report with all of this testimony as well and how that becomes involved in this case. So this is not one of those open and shut overnight cases. They had to amass the evidence. They claim to have significant evidence, by the way.</s>HOLMES: Let's move to the next topic and the next icon. Brett Favre, are people kind of over getting on to him for being so indecisive? Are people just happy to see this guy playing again?</s>HORROW: Well, thank you. First of all you are referring to a pushy media hog; I thought you were talking about me for a minute. Sorry about that.</s>HOLMES: Goes without saying for you, buddy.</s>HORROW: Forty years old -- thank you very much for that slam. Hey, listen he's made $14 million off and on the field so let's not hold a bake sale for Brett Favre. The bottom line is this is now the third year the wishy-washiness has affected a camp. He was one interception away from leading the Vikings to the super bowl last year. This is his 20th year. He said that's it. Well, we may believe him or not. It's time for him to do an endorsement with Waffle House. What do you think?</s>HOLMES: I don't like it, but they're happy to have him back and he means money for the league and that team. So they'll take him.</s>HORROW: Yes. Well, they will take him. And it is money for the league and the team at a time where the NFL goes into labor negotiations; everybody talking about creative marketing from the Dolphins to the Packers to the Vikings and everybody in between. But it's good to have superstars as the focus. It certainly brings people back to the TV sets.</s>HOLMES: All right. Well, you bring our viewers back to the TV set every Saturday morning.</s>HORROW: Yes, sir.</s>HOLMES: Rick Horrow. Good to see you, as always.</s>HORROW: Hey, somebody has to do it. See you next week.</s>HOLMES: Good point. All right. We appreciate you. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. Quick break, we're right back with a check of your top stories. Stay here with us.