Should the Green Bay great hang it up, or come back and give it another go?
I have been a Brett Favre fan before I ever saw him play and before he ever stepped onto a professional football field. Somehow – and the details are hazy – I had heard about Favre in the lead up to the 1991 NFL Draft.…
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76 - Jeff
Hey Sal...Favre played on great teams? He played on a couple of very good teams which went to the superbowl, but for the past ten years, he has had anything BUT great teams. Unlike your statements, I will give you difinitive proof.
In order for teams to be great, they must have great players. The Packers of the 60's had almost a dozen hall of fame players - they were some great teams. The Steelers of the 70's had over 6 hall of fame players - they had some great teams. The Cowboys of the Seventies and 90's had several Hall of Fame players and they were great teams. The Patriots, when all is said and done, will have probably had 5+ Hall of Fame players on their rosters during their Super Bowl Runs and I consider them to have been a great team the past 6 years.
The Green Bay Packers, from 1992-2007 have had TWO players who will make the Hall of Fame. Reggie White who played through the 1998 season with the packers (which was one year removed from their Super Bowl Team) and BRETT FAVRE.
Please, explain to me exactly what you feel has made any of the teams GREAT the past 10 years? The 2007 version of the Green Bay Packers were the youngest team in the NFL and still managed to get the the NFC Championship Game. Who were their "great" players?
Take Brett Favre away from the Packers the past 17 seasons and I doubt they would have more winning seasons than losing ones. Sure, they could've had Aaron Rodgers or Ty Detmer as their quaterback - Matt Hasselbeck in the later years (Maybe even Kurt Warner). But then again, if the Packers don't have Brett Favre, they probably wouldn't have taken the chance on those Quarterbacks (who learned UNDER Favare) but instead would've taken such highly regarded 1st Round Quarterbacks as Heath Shuler, Ryan Leaf, Akili Smith, or, if the Pack was lucky, they could've traded away their 1st Round pick in 1992 to get Todd Marinovich instead of Favre.
Yeah, you make sooooo much sense sal.
77 - Hank
Favre should have retired after he disgraced the NFL with his playoff performance against the Giants.
Now he has not only disgraced the NFL, he is an embarrassment to all athletes with his recent selfish, self-serving actions.
The Packers are better off without him and would have been better off if they had not picked him up after the Falcons rightfully traded him.
78 - Henderson
Favre was a product of the system in Green Bay and played will the NFL's best his entire career.
Brett Favre will go down as the most overrated quarterback of all time.
79 - camhirtle
I think he should retire, but I respect his right to unretire/retire as much as he would like. imagine your greatest passion in your life and leaving it completely behind. Football is all he knows, of course he will have second thought people. Win 8 or 9 division titles, break all the major passing records, win a SB ring, and pick up a franchise on your shoulders and carry it for 16 seasons and then you can criticise all you want. Until then, shut your traps, Favre has earned it.