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I know there's a very large percentage of the people reading this giving me the "Boy, you must be crazy" look right now.
In all honesty though, Packers fans can still like the old gunslinger.
I've been a cheesehead for nearly 20 years, and even though he's now wearing a different color with that gold, I can still call myself a fan of No. 4, the player.
No, I'm not a traitor. It's not like I'm cheering on the 'ViQueens' to win every week, or own a purple 'Favre' jersey. I'm just still interested in what Favre does on Sunday's.
He still loves the game, although he doesn't really like Monday through Saturday much anymore, but he still shows up. This is a man who loves football.
Some think that he came back, and more importantly with the Vikings, to "stick it" to the Packers twice a year. So this year is supposedly filled with spite towards Ted Thompson and the rest of Green Bay's organization.
What about last year then? If his sole motivation is spite against the Packers, then why did he play for the Jets last season, who never even had a sniff of Green Bay. That was not only out of the division, but out of conference as well.
When you've played a game for as long as Favre has, you will love the game until the day you die. So I doubt is sole reason is spite.
Plus, it shouldn't matter WHY he's playing, instead it's the fact THAT he's playing.
He's a big reason for the NFL's growing popularity since the mid 1990's, and he brought Green Bay Packers football back from the dead in the 80's and early 90's.
I'm not willing to erase 16 years of great football memories just because two grown men (Thompson and Favre) couldn't get along.
Believe me, when Minnesota play
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