Brett Favre, please take my advice and if the Packers don't want you then stay retired. You said the show was over and you wanted to hang it up now stick to your word.
And in a point of full disclosure, I am a Bears fan. But the fact that you have led your Packers out onto the field for some 17 years now and continually battered my boys is besides the point. That has nothing to do with it, but being a Chicago fan we know a little about a great player hanging on just a little too long.
As much as I hated seeing you run out there in the green and gold of the Packers, I still respect you as a great player. After all, what sports fan or football fan can't recognize you as one of the great players of your generation and probably of all time? And this is the sole reason that you cannot return to football under the helmet of any other team.
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You may have the want to play, and the "itch" as you call it, but when the sun has set, its just all over.
Brett, I don't want to see you tarnish your legacy by coming back with some team other than the Packers and having a lackluster couple of seasons. Not living up to what we all know you used to be able to do. We don't want to see shades of the past followed by the truth that you no longer have it.
Like I said, I'm a Chicago Fan, and seeing Michael Jordan return with the Wizards was one of the most painful experiences of my life. He damaged his career per game stats and now some young kids remember him as an ailing, washed up player trying to hang on and not the superstar that he was. He should have stayed retired after his final shot to win the title in 1998.
Now I understand your final play was an interception that cost you the game, but lets be honest about the circumstances. You had one of the best seasons of your career last year and put a young team on your shoulders and took them farther than anyone else expected. Remember that as your shining moment.
So again Brett, please stay retired and don't tarnish your great legacy.
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2 months ago
Hey Mr. Koss, regarding Favre:
If "he" is the one who said the show was over after last season, then do you think its fair or unfair that "he" be able to change his mind if "he feels" that choice = false signals of retirement-readiness?
Plus, I Understand that sports is now a business moreso than a passionate dream, but...when do we, ever again, sit back/accept that some players really did succeed intergalactically enough, to warrant the opportunity to do things just the way that they want to? Afterall...it's not Brett's fault that he's possibly, pound-for-pound, the most hard-nosed competitor to ever bless an NFL gridiron.
But since, in the words of the great Bruce Hornsby--- thats just the way it is?
I'm all for watching him write his own final-scene script, at whatever time he decides to. I think the people of Wisconsin should have a vote on it, over the next 2.5 months...I think we all know what the unanimous choice would be. I think those voting people, and the entire Planet's Packer-fans, do still deem those Super Bowl victories as 'recent' history. And since the key guy who brought them into fruition, isn't ready to *finally finalize* his decision to stop playing, then it's only fair to let him be.
I think its pretty gauranteed, after his performance last season, he's going to be far more productive than the QB who was slated to take over his duties next season...barring a Favre injury. Even if not, and Favre has a long and disastrous season? That won't possibly diminish his career's contributions, plus will likely solidify it ---to Brett Favre--- that it really is okay/time to go home for good now.
peace
from 2 months ago
First I'd like to address the idea of the people of Wisconsin voting on this, if you note I only told him to stay retired IF he isn't with the Packers. So if you want them to vote for him to play on another team that's fine, but I don't think they want to do that.
Second, recent super bowl victories, plural? He won one Super Bowl, went to two, and lost the other.
Thank you though for the comments, and I understand your sentiment that he is a great player and if he wants to write a different ending to his career, more power to him, he earned that right. But I just don't want to see him pull an MJ and go out on a bad note.
2 months ago
If Brett Favre comes back, I fully expect Aaron Rodgers to hamstring him with a steak knife.
The kind of circus that follows this guy around is ridiculous. Even Jordan didn't have this same media frenzy. Favre has so far publicly denied wanting to come back, but I doubt that these rumors are coming out of nowhere.
Yeah, he'd probably be productive. But Rodgers needs a chance. The Packers drafted him thinking that he would be the replacement for Favre sooner rather than later, and now Favre doesn't seem to be able to hang them up, even when he "wants" to hang them up. I'll be happy when this whole saga ends, and we can start thinking about actual football instead of what's on next week's episode of "Green Bay 90210".
from 2 months ago
Lol, one of the funniest first lines I have ever read!
from 2 months ago
Jordan's circus was ten times as ridiculous. Remember when he retired the first time and played minor league baseball, that team was all of a sudden getting games on ESPN. The Media buzz around MJ is almost unparalleled, except maybe by Tiger Woods, and that is only because there are 10 times more media outlets now than there were then.
And yes I agree with you on what Rodgers' position should be, its been very unfair to him the past two seasons basically prepping as the starter and then Favre flying in at the last minute. If he does it to him again Rodgers would almost be right in demanding a trade.
about 1 month ago
Kevin Koss, you're too defensive, as shown with your sarcasm re: Packer's fans voting. And, I will admit the typ-o, where I wrote "victories" instead of "appearances" my friend. Still, you efficiently focused on semantics, as if the accomplishments aren't 'psychologically-interchangeable* to a fan, who's team hadn't *done either* since the 1960's...hmmm
And remember, since we are talking about when Favre will officially "END" his career, and not officially "BEGIN" his career, then...it's not possible for him to go out on a tarnished legacy. I think it's a safe bet, that he would retire in the event of, a subpar, or bad season. Last year was just too great of a year for him to pack it in. Period.
And, again, it's can not possibly be indicative of 'tarnishing his legacy' simply because, every player is allowed to have a bad season. And considering he had a great season just last year, it just makes no sense to equate his career to tarnished, via 'one poor season' a year or two later. The great season will had been, just too recent, for that tarnished legacy notion to ever fly.
And please recall, the big difference with him and Jordan;
Brett will not had missed any time off, in not retiring, if he comes back this season. Whereas, if Jordan hadn't waited "multiple seasons" before lacing them up again, his legacy wouldn't be scrutinized. Plus, his legacy is NOT hardly tarnished anyway.
As proven by the Jordan comparisons, for Kobe, which went totally toward diminishing Kobe ---in every circle where the comparison occurred, on the planet!--- it showed and proved Jordan's legacy wasn't tarnished. Especially, since you never heard folk referring to Jordan's Washington Wizard days, when making the comparison/putting him over Kobe.
about 1 month ago
"As proven by the Jordan comparisons, for Kobe, which went totally toward diminishing Kobe ---in every circle where the comparison occurred, on the planet!--- it showed and proved Jordan's legacy wasn't tarnished. Especially, since you never heard folk referring to Jordan's Washington Wizard days, when making the comparison/putting him over Kobe. "
That's a really good point.
about 1 month ago
Favre absolutely has the right to come back. The truth of the matter is that he felt pressure to retire from the Packers organization, who felt it was time for them to move on, and the media, who wanted to see him go out on top. YC, as Shaun pointed out, makes a good point. Nobody remembers the Joe Montana Kansas City days, and people seldom remember that Muhammad Ali lost his last two fights to Larry Holmes and Trevor Berbick. And who knows? Maybe he's a George Foreman and recaptures the world title when no one gave him a chance? The truth of the matter is that Favre is STILL one of the five best quarterbacks in the league. Green Bay is enabling all of this. They don't want him back BUT, they don't want him to go to the Bears or Vikings either, because he would end up kicking their a**. Can you imagine if Favre went to the Vikings, charged into Lambeau on opening day, and beat them WHILE having his number retired at half time. Ah, what poetry.
I remember when Barry Sanders retired from the Lions (I'm a Lions fans) and a lot of fans were initially upset with him, forgetting that was really the management that forced him out. Green Bay wants it both ways. They want to give their young QB his shot AND they want their old QB (the one who pretty much carried this franchise for the past decade) to bow out even though he's still better than his replacement. It's not Favre that's tarnishing his legacy. He's just a ballplayer and he wants to play ball.
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