Brett Favre Comments: Aging Brett Deserves Respect
Every year we suffer through the same soap opera like drama surrounding the retirement of our own living legend and football savior, Brett Favre. But now the seemingly untouchable Favre has shown a chink in his armor. Now don't get me wrong, that sad but soon to be coming day that Brett makes his decision to put away the guns and retire, I'll be on the phone booking my room and buying tickets for his Pro-Football Hall of Fame Induction. Book it early I say, because we "Cheeseheads" are a loyal bunch and will travel in support of our team and players.
We've all grown older with Brett and lived through the different phases of his life. He's been the very public face of a Green Bay Packers franchise that I love so much for going on 16 years. We rejoiced with Brett's joy of winning a Superbowl and restoring the Packers to greatness once again. We marveled at his toughness on the field and genuine down home approachable personality off it. We've felt pity on his pain, injuries, and consequential addiction to painkillers. We cried with Brett at losing his father Irv the night before a big Monday night game in Oakland. We rallied in support of Deanna when she was diagnosed with cancer. Plain and simple, we've lived life with Brett and the whole Favre family. They are our family.
Now in the twilight of his career Brett has shown us a side that we've rarely seen, the ever so small chink I mentioned before. He's still better than most starting quarterbacks out there. But the realization is slowly creeping in that he's not Superman anymore and needs help. You can't blame an individual that's bled and sacrificed for 16 years for asking for some help in the form of a Randy Moss. Randy terrorized Lambeau Field for years while with the Minnesota Vikings.
In my opinion, at this stage in his career he's earned the respect and the Packer's organization should make more effort to consider his requests. I can understand his frustrations. Every Packer fan lived them last year over and over again with every dropped pass and route run wrong.
I really don't see his comments from this past weekend being a put-down on his current team. (Be it a very young team.) I see this as aging warrior calling for his team to better arm him before battle. He'll go into battle with the youth and inexperience. He's never one to back down from a challenge. But he's seeking a little more seasoning in the ranks.
Maybe this is just another phase in the amazing life of Brett Favre we're seeing. One we'll all look back on and smile about that fateful day in Canton, Ohio.
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7 Comments
Post a CommentOut of spite? This has to be the reason...I love the Pack through and through. And Brett created that. Now that he is gone, my love remains. But now...that he has joined the enemy, it makes question his motives. The Purpes are the enemy--out of all the teams, he chooses the vikes? Go to hell Brett...and go pack go
You don't owe anything to anybody but those you love and those who love you. Brett, I hope you and your family decide to put on the purple and gold and do what you do best. GO GIT 'R DONE!
I met Brett one snowy night at a movie theater in Green Bay in 1995. Huge blizzard, only four people in the place. Thought I'd leave the guy in peace, but HE came up to ME to shoot the breeze. I just said " Thank-you for all you've done for the Packers and us Packer fans.", and shook his hand. Amazing athlete, class guy, ultimate competitor. I'm a huge life long Packer fan, but when are we all going to realize Brett did a million times more for the GBP than the GBP ever did for him. When are the GBP and all GBP fans going to realize how much of a privilege and blessing it was that Brett did what he did in Green Bay. He could just as well have done it elsewhere. I've spoken with guys who played for Lombardi and they all had the same self-assessment....average guys who were inspired to become extraordinary players and men. Brett, those of us who have really followed your career know that you became an extraordinary player and man mostly because of you, your Dad, and your family. You don'
Fahvra. Say it enough and you go blind.
Brett Favre does deserve respect. However, thre are other quarterbacks that have done just as well, and currently are doing well, and they are never talked about. Yes, Favre holds records, but he hasn't taken his team to a superbowl since the late 90's, and how could we all forget those dismal years that followed. People talk about him like he's the best player ever, and that's what I have a problem with. He gets all this attention, and gets coddled by the media. I feel sorry for him, that he doesn't have anything else in his life (besides family) that he loves as much as football. What about Brady, or the Manning brothers, or even past greats weren't talked about like Favre (I.E. Montana, Elway, Aikman, Kelly). I don't think his legacy wil be ruined, but do we have to put him on this high pedestal?
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The interesting thing about Favre's comments is you don't see players or coaches disagreeing with him, just the media and the fans who take their cues off of what ESPN tells them. And, not just on his own team. You would think guys like Javon Walker or other ex-Packers who may not have gotten along with him would be the first in line to criticize him and, so far, they've been quiet. In fact, Donald Driver agreed with him as well as ex-Packer Ahman Green.