TwinkieStabllis said:
Favre came into the picture intercepting his own pass, throwing fucked up hail marys, shuffling around the pocket and shovel-passing weird shit to anybody we were all just like "FUCK YEAH DO SOMETHING WHY NOT LOL!!!" and after it actually started to work for us (him/Packers) we began to worship him like he was blessed by the Gods of Luck. even Holmgren just threw his hands in the air like "i can't fucking coach this asshole...he just does whatever the fuck anyway."
Yeah, we all loved it.
It's the
post-Pack Favre that's ruining that legacy. The guy wasn't perfect, but he took chances - sometimes pulling amazing shit out of his ass, other times crashing and burning. He was human like us! Not one of these robotic golden-boys like Payton Manning.
But it's become readily apprarent that the whole comback is motivated by some vindicative, spurned, ex-girlfriend like desire to stick it to Packers front office.
I mean, when Joe Montana went to KC, it had the feeling of SF being like "look Joe, you're never going to be at the same level and we have this guy Steve Young that's young and promising." And Joe like "Whatever, I think I have some good years left, and if not here, I'll find a team that I can contribute to for a few more years." And Young went on to prove that SF was right. And Joe went on to prove he was right too with a AFC champ appearance. Everybody was happy. Joe gets retired and into the HOF as a '9er. Hardly any drama at all. And Joe was as big as it gets in any sport back then - he was Mike Jordan, Tiger Woods whatever...
But Favre - and it sucks because he's such an icon of the sport. It's like all of his legacy, his reputation everything is changing because of his selfish need for revenge.
That being said I'll still tune in for those 2 games and might even route for him from a spoiler standpoint
I'm reminded of the great Steelers LB Greg Lloyd. He always played with this pissed off, nearly criminal Mike Tyson-esque attitude where he hated you from his old neighborhood. Like you stole his milk money from him when he was a kid. He hated you, and he'd let the hate manifest itself in a sickeningly violent way. He never smiled or joked. He was never friendly to anyone.
He made everything personal.
But he never made himself bigger than the game or his teammates.
Favre would've buried Rodger's career before it ever got off the ground. He used the Jets to keep his hopes alive to get back in his old division (getting the coach fired in the process). Now he's stringing the Vikes along, when they should be getting their offense ready to go, they've got the whole organization in a holding pattern.
He's a selfish bastard. And it's too bad because he could've been when of the all time fan favorites.
Look at Jim Kelly, he's bigger than the pope in Buffallo. And he never won the big one.
