So at long last Sunday in Green Bay playing for another team, NFL fans the whole world wide saw just what Favre had left in the tank. The Packers are a team that currently constitute a Wild Card level of competitiveness. The Vikings are a complete team that could compete for the Super Bowl. In a year when there are a hearty handful of darn good teams and an equal portion of just plain awful teams, the Packers are in the upper middle. Favre puts the Vikes up near the very top.
Seeing and hearing the Packers fans boo Favre mercilessly was so abhorrent, so beyond classless that you can't even joke your way to a justification. Even back in Sconnie, a hearty majority of people grew uneasy with events such as the "Funeral 4 Favre" event some moronic radio station staged Friday at a bar in Appleton. On the Coast where I live or just about everywhere else, it looks like sour grapes of the lowest order.
You know what, funeral goers? Favre buried you. In his two games against the Vikes this year, he threw seven touchdowns and no interceptions. His field awareness is unparalleled and he still throws the ball hard enough to break fingers from 20 yards away. When the camera was on him, he smiled or winked or just plain ol' got fired up like a player half his age. More intangibly, no one's got his star power.
By the end of the game, I was outright rooting against the Packers. Not the team, mind you. The people that for decades I sat next to at Lambeau and in countless bars that are so damn well-versed in terms of football, but so damn mindless in their embrace of the Packers brand. Did Favre handle his retirement gesticulating well? Absolutely not. But to call the guy a traitor, burn his jerseys and boo his return? Face it, Packer fans. The rest of the country is laughing at us right now.
Article comments
1 - sandi
I was embarrassed for all Packer fan's who boo'd their once loved icon! How dispicable and childish, and well just plain disgusting! I hope each one of you who boo'd saw the look on that man's face! He was loyal to you fans and gave his ALL each game. How can you call yourselves human beings and treat someone you once loved so much soooo badly because...well basically because all he wanted to do was continue playing?? SHAME ON YOU PACKER FANS! GOOO VIKINGS!!!
2 - Brad
I can only hope you were crushed by Favre's predictable interception and the Packers winning the Super Bowl here in 2011. You are obviously a fair weather Packer/Viking fan. You chose the Vikings are Favre, you are stuck with it. No room left on the bandwagon for guys who just didn't get what an ass Brett Favre was. He owed the Packers so much for making him who he was, and he decided to let the overhype he received guide his judgement about his real capablities. He also massively undervalued the capabilities of the people who approved his time card and signed his paychecks. Favre lost in the end, and as a Favre Lover and at BEST a fair weather Packer fan, you are a loser too.
3 - Brett
Hilarious, Brad. Thanks for today's chuckle. You obviously have WAY too much time on your hands.