thunderinacircle said:
Well the ol' gunslinger has hung up his cleats. A bit of a sad day for me as a Wisconsin resident and Packers' fan. I moved to Wisconsin in 1992, when Favre took over as QB. I think a lot of people took him for granted and we will now get to see just how tough it can be without a legend for quarterback. Obviously there were some tough seasons throw in after the 3-consecutive MVP's, but no one is perfect. As excited as I am up to see Aaron Rodgers play, it is a sad day for football fans. People in Wisconsin (and John Madden) take a lot of shit for how the "worship" Favre, but if anyone deserves it, it was him.
I'll miss the sound of Lambeau when his name was called, all the insane throws he made no matter if they were touchdowns or interceptions, him being out there with broken bones, him throwing the ball so hard that he broke the receiver's fingers on a regular basis, and all the funny shit he'd come up with in interviews and the such. I'll miss what an everyday, normal guy he was with all his problems out there in the open, whether it be drug addicton, alcoholism, his wife's battle with cancer, or his father's death. He definitely has broadcasting potential, though I know that is something he'd never do.
Fuck Brett Farve.
Seriously, he's just a douchebag who has a great public image and overrated skills. Every fucking year after the season ends all football fans are subjected to the question of whether Brett Farve is going to retire or not, and no one outside of Wisconsin gives a shit about Brett Farve in the first place. This season, it appeared that it was fnally, finally over as Brett Farve finally stopped bullshitting everyone and formally retired, which meant that every offseason we wouldn't have to spend all summer listening to bullshit about whether some overrated quarterback who peaked 10 years ago was coming back or not--or so we thought.
Almost as soon as his bullshit press conference ended, he started dropping subtle hints that he wanted to come back. Shut the fuck up you douche, stay fucking retired! If you absolutely feel that you have to come back, then you should have come back sooner instead of playing the bullshit media game and undermining Arron Rodgers position with the team and the fans (and if I was a Packer fan, I'd be pissed at Farve because he's only hurting your team by intensifying pressure on Rodgers, who will be blamed for every Packer fuck up in a game, whether he caused it or not).
And people wonder why the Packers are fed up with Farve's bullshit--because he does it every fucking year, and he hurts the team because they have to plan around his bullshit. If I were Farve, I would be thankful if the Packers let him back to hold a clipboard until his contract expires or they traded him--and I don't think the Packers are going to do either of those things for obvious reasons. If they were to let him back to be a backup, every time Rodgers fucks up the fans would be in an uproar for Farve, undermining support for Rodgers with the fan base and in the locker room, and if they trade him, they get maybe a mid round pick and make any team that needs a quarterback better (I didn't say he wasn't good, just that he was overrated).
As for "deserving" all of the praise he gets, that's bullshit too. There are many players in the NFL with higher character than Brett Farve. People tend to gloss over his bullshit, but this was the same guy who cheated on his wife (then girlfriend) many times, and then virtually ignored Deanna and his daughter until like 1996, when they finally moved to Wisconsin with him. If anybody should be worshiped, it's Deanna, who raised their kid by herself and worked while Farve was partying in the early years of his career. People paint the image of Brett Farve as a saint, but he was a douchebag for the longest time who didn't even seem to care about his own long time girlfriend and kid, and his actions clearly show that he still only looks out for himself.
I've never understood people from Wisconsin, but clearly they live under some delusion that Brett Farve is God and anything said against him is wrong. Seriously, someone explain the mindset of Wisconsin to me, please, because I don't understand it. Bonus points if you can figure out why John Madden gets a hard on every time he sees Farve play. Is he from Wisconsin?
Fuck Brett Farve.