Brett Favre: "I Would Love To Beat the Saints"

(Writers note: comments interspersed in italics are fan reaction to Thursday's article in the Biloxi Sun-Herald.)

Seems Brett Favre—the "now-I'm-retired-now-I'm not" man—is getting downright decisive in his old age.

Favre, the future Hall-of-Fame QB with a long resume of legendary playoff meltdowns, told the Biloxi Sun-Herald on Thursday that he still feels he can play at a "high level" after 20 seasons, and he would love to go beat the Saints in the September 9 season opener.

Great quarterback, lousy person for putting the teams and the fans of those teams through this crap every year. Come on back, Brett. I would love to see you get beat up like you did the last time you played the Saints.

Favre is still smarting over throwing away the NFC Championship Game on an ill-advised pass into the arms of Tracy Porter. Favre threw over-the-middle and across his body, something he got away with his entire career, but not this time.

"Favre: ‘I would love to beat the Saints'"
No kidding. Sugar, you had your chance

Two weeks later, Porter would be a Super Bowl hero and a few weeks after that his hometown of Port Allen, Louisiana would throw a parade in his honor and name a street after him.

This couldn't have sat well with Favre who sees himself as God's gift to football these days.

 

Good sportsmanship.....you need to eat your words, honey. Brett walked off the field, while Drew Brees was trying so hard to find him to shake his hand!!!! Who is the good sportsman now?!? Went to college with Brett, trust me, I would love to route for him....but if you want to bring kids in to this, Brett should have been a role model for his.... PERIOD!

Outwardly, he displays all the signs of a veteran ready to play another year. His workout regimen includes early morning eight-mile bicycling rides in Hattiesburg at about the same time those burglars are returning home from a hard's night work with a crowbar and wedge.

Self Centered, selfish, crybaby, whiner, just what I want to see his ugly mug crying on TV one more time..........he leaves Green Bay on his own, they make a business decision to play Rogers, golden boy decides he wants to change his mind and come back and the Pack tells him they've gone a different direction...

In typical Favre style, he didn't commit himself fully to a return, telling the Sun Herald :

"If my body was a wreck, the decision would be made," Favre told the newspaper. "But that is not the case. I know [the Vikings] want to know."

"Hell, I want to know. But I am not going to press it. If I do not play, it does not cost the Vikings a dime. They keep the $13 million. I know they have confidence in the players they have. They had a chance to draft [Notre Dame QB, Jimmy] Clausen in the first round, but they didn't want one."

 

He lives to have these people wait to see if he will grace them with another season. The Saints will smash him again because he is coming back.

Favre has come a long way from his early days as a freshman QB at the University of Southern Mississippi. He was such an unknown quantity in those days that when the he came out on the field for his first college play, the radio announcer said "on comes Brett (FAVRAY) at QB for the Golden Eagles."

I am not hating. And he got the MVP last year and did not even make it to the show. And Elway had a torn ACL when he went out. Google. Try it. And yes he did have one of his best seasons last year. Until he met up with the Saints D. Any QB looks like crap when they have to keep picking his butt up...

After he slew some college football giants like Alabama, Auburn, and Florida State, the whole country knew his name and how to pronounce it correctly. This was after having most of his intestine removed after a car accident.

I'm sure I will get lots of hateful replies for this but here goes... I'm tired of hearing about him retiring then coming back to retire again. Yes, he is a great player and a great person but I'm soooo tired of the back and forth. I hope he makes up his mind and stays put this time. Can't say I'll pull for him against the Saints though!

Favre led life in the fast lane in those days, but his coaches didn't seem to mind when he backed it up on the field. His All-American style play led to his head coach Curley Hallman landing the head job at LSU.

Love Favre or hate him—someone actually wrote a book, I Love Brett Favre, I Hate Brett Favre —he is still one of the very best in the game, a freak of nature defying father time.

I agree that he is a great QB. Best of all time is questionable, and I am not referring to Brees either. Face it, he is old, cant take a hit like he used to, proved that in the championship game and his passing pct is down. He needs to be what everybody would expect of him. Retire while he is still can..

He may have played the best football of his career last season in leading the Vikings to a 12-4 season and one game short of the Super Bowl.

And, yet, one wonders just how much longer hold off the aging process.

Brett, you're still among the best, and I wish you well. That said, if you come back (which I think you will and hope you do) those Saints are gonna take it to ya again. WHO DAT!

His Metrodome-sized ego won't let him walk away but possibly one of those "Remember Me" shots Gregg Williams talks about just might.

Yea and I would have liked to have been born rich instead of so damn good looking. Retire old man while you still have all your fingers and toes. Don't try to be like Montana and embarrass yourself.

It would be sad to see one of the game's all-time great competitors depart that way.