Brett Favre has spent the past 17 years dazzling fans with his play, seeming to not care what happens to his body as long as he was able to help his team win the game.
Packer fans cringed when they watched him throw up the ball to Donald Driver, and spent the next minute and a half afterwards cheering, because Brett had thrown the perfect pass to the receiver that most quarterbacks would have seen as covered.
He lived by the gunslinger mentality. He threw a touchdown or an interception seemingly every play. (He even holds the NFL career records for touchdowns and interceptions.)
And as a Chicago fan, nobody spent more time in the fetal position after he shredded bad 90's Bears teams one after another.
He goes down in history as one of the greatest of all time.
Montana, Unitas, Namath, Favre. No matter what conversation you are having, if football is the topic, Favre is the answer.
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He started as a little known guy from Mississippi; he's a blue-collar guy who believes in hard work possibly more than anybody else who ever played the game.
Paul Tagliabue didn't even know how to pronounce his name when he was first drafted in 1991 by the Atlanta Falcons.
He was traded to the Packers and that's when the legend began.
Matt Hasselbeck was the back-up to him for some years in Green Bay. Matt has a great story of finally getting fan mail one day: He was so excited—until he read it. Inside, the young lady had asked him; because Favre's mailbox is always full, to get her a Brett Favre autograph.
Favre's celebrity was even felt in the town of his most heated rival, Chicago.
After a Bears game, you could regularly find shirts that say "Packers Suck, Favre Swallows." But those shirts where really an admiration of our love for a great player. (As well as the hatred of an evil team that got lucky.)
So, from a Bears fan to the town of Green Bay: Sorry you lost your star quarterback, good luck next season, you're going to need it with Aaron Rodgers.
Other news from today
- Side note from this article, the final ball that Favre threw in a regulation game, is currently in possesion of a former U.S Army officer who lost both his legs in Iraq. The ball was given to him by Corey Webster who made the game clinching interception in the NFC Championship game.
- Javon Walker signs 6-year 55 million dollar deal with the Oakland Raiders
- Warren Sapp retires after 13 year career. No more booty dances in the endzone for Sapp.
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8 months ago
Nice article. Why can't the Bears get lucky one of these days and land a quarterback half as good as Favre?
from 8 months ago
thank you, we have rex grossman...he's like favre...without the touchdowns
8 months ago
I don't think there was a more universally liked guy in sports, and this article is proof of that. Rogers is probably the only person who is happy about Favre being gone.
8 months ago
Uh, David Stern is the commisioner of the NBA. Did Fav ruh suit up for the Hawks along side 'Nique at some early point of his career? Was he traded to the Packers for Terry Cummings?
from 8 months ago
brain fart, i'll fix it
8 months ago
Since the Bears will once again this season be sporting the mighty offensive juggernaut of Rex Grossman, I would take it easy on Aaron Rodgers...other than that, good article.
8 months ago
OH NO JOE.............FAN OR NOT FAN, BRETT FARVE IS A DRUG ADDICT. IF THIS WAS BASEBALL HE WOULD BE SITTING IN FRONT TO THE CONGRESS TRYING TO EXPLAIN WHY HE WAS ADDICTED TO PAIN KILLERS... THIS IS THE WHOLE POINT, IF FARVE WASNT ADDICTED TO PAIN KILLERS HE WOULD NOT HAVE STARTED A TON OF GAMES....AND IN TURN WOULD NOT HAVE BROKEN AS MANY RECORDS, AGAIN NOT SAYING FARVE ISNT A GREAT QUARTERBACK, JUST KINDA PUTTING IT INTO PERSPECTIVE FOR THE YOUNGSTERS....AND FOR THE YOUNGSTER WHO WROTE THIS ARTICLE NEVER WISH GREENBAY LUCK.........GO BEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
from 8 months ago
wishing green bay luck was sarcastic, nice way to pick up on that one teddy because of the fact that aaron rodgers is going to have to start for the packers now.
8 months ago
I liked Brett Favre...I don't care if he was drug addict. So was FDR
8 months ago
Mighty big statement for a Bears fan to say.
Packers fans, of course feel the same way about Walter Payton as you feel about Favre-they are both bigger than the teams or the game. They transcend the rivalry and are admired and respected for the legends they are. So thank you for generous, kind words.
But of course, remember, come September, it's still ON between us!
And to Teddy: Hey, dude, how did the Bears playoff ticket sales go this year?
8 months ago
we killed you when u had farm and an nfc championship caliber team, we can beat u wit rodgers as the.
from 8 months ago
Yabut, you're still: the Bears.
And TBSS.
from 8 months ago
But you're a pretty good young writer, keep it up. You might want to transfer your allegiance to the team north of the border, though, to avoid scorn, humiliation, embarrassment, frustration and shame on a yearly basis, though. :)
Really, keep up the writing. You've got a future. (Unlike the Bears.)
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