Well said.
I’ll believe this when he misses his first start in 254 games. Say that about anyone else in football. Quarterback or not.
We’ll miss you Brett. A good player and a good man.
The NFL was lucky to have a model like Favre in these days of Michael Vicks and Pacman Jones’. He’s all that’s good about the game.
Favre will be missed. A great competitor, a great quarterback, and a guy who doesn’t have to self-promote (imagine…) - his teammates do it for him.
I remember a few years ago when Favre joked about giving his paycheck back one week because he played so terribly. Refreshing in a league dominated more and more by prima donnas.
One of the greats.
Malonetd said it perfectly. Being a Charger fan i would have loved to have him on our team any day. The media blows everything out of proportion these days so take it for what it is worth.
I’m really interested to see how Aaron Rodgers does as the starter now.
[quote]Contrl wrote:
So does this mean the entire state of Wisconsin goes back to being yet another state with nothing worth talking about?[/quote]
yup
except we still have Jeffrey Dahmer to reminisce about
[quote]BabyBuster wrote:
Well said.
I’ll believe this when he misses his first start in 254 games. Say that about anyone else in football. Quarterback or not.
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Yup, that’s the single thing that really impresses me about him. And I don’t think he could use painkillers at all because of his addiction to them, which makes the impressive downright amazing.
Never had anything against him, just the way the announcers always treated him with kid gloves.
And nice avatar.
[quote]CC wrote:
Damn, that’s too bad. He was really good at getting his ass handed to him and helping our record over the last few years (6 of 8 wins since 2004). He’ll definitely be missed in Chicago.
Bear down Chicago Bears.[/quote]
Preach the good word Brother. I will miss seeing Urlacher and Ogunleye murder him twice a season though… =[
[quote]marlboroman wrote:
Contrl wrote:
So does this mean the entire state of Wisconsin goes back to being yet another state with nothing worth talking about?
yup
except we still have Jeffrey Dahmer to reminisce about
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Well, some dude over at fox sports already picked the Badgers to win the BCS next year. So we have that…
In other news I’m officially retiring the Cockface as I won’t need it anymore now that the Packers don’t have the all time leading thrower of interceptions in the history of the NFL as their quarterback.
Brett Favre played football like he was living one of my favorite Jack London quotes (well, at least it’s widely attributed to Jack London):
I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out
in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom
of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.
Yep! No more fellatio fest from John Madden and most importantly, no more glorifying of Deanna Favre EVERY TIME FAVRE COMPLETES A PASS! I was so goddamned sick of every time he threw a pass, they panned up to his wife sitting in the box so they could show her clapping and cheering. They treated her as if she was playing the game as well! Yeah she beat cancer, but boo hoo, so have millions of other women!
As for making a Monday Night career out of destroying my Chicago Bears, I’m glad to see him go.
He finishes his career as the NFL’s most accurate passer among those with at least 6,000 career attempts, his 61.4 career completion percentage placing him ahead of No. 2 Dan Marino (59.4 percent). With 63 games with three-or-more touchdown passes, Favre also placed just ahead of Marino (62) on the NFL’s all-time list.
Sure sounds mediocre
I could see why he was addicted to pain killers. He was so used to being in pain the feeling of feeling good must have been total euphoria.
[quote]analog_kid wrote:
marlboroman wrote:
Contrl wrote:
In other news I’m officially retiring the Cockface as I won’t need it anymore now that the Packers don’t have the all time leading thrower of interceptions in the history of the NFL as their quarterback.
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hey barry sanders has the record for most negitive yards
really though , I got nothing against the guy . if I gotta be a sports fan , I’ll pull for the Pack . but the CONSTANT attention pro athletes get is rediculous .
the morning news during every off-season goes on about Farve (thats right , I spelled it the way it sounds)…every frikkin’ morning . then the news guys gotta talk to some lame-ass fan ; whose semi-retarded opinion means absolutely nothing to anyone . frikkin’ rediculous .
if pro athlete’s paychecks looked like mine , there’d be a lot fewer guys playin’ .it’s all about the money
rant over
I like Farve, and Green Bay and the NFL will miss him next season. It’s rare that a guy plays 17 years in the league with the same team, similar to Elway and Marino.
[quote]hercules54 wrote:
It’s rare that a guy plays 17 years in the league with the same team[/quote]
He didn’t. He played one year in Atlanta.
Oh yeah, I forgot about the year in Atlanta.
It’s kinda funny, for the first time in as long as I can remember, the Lions have the best qb in their division.
i think rogers is going to come out like tony homo and do well and kitna with his 10 wins wont be that hard to beat out for best qb in div
[quote]hazarddude334 wrote:
i think rogers is going to come out like tony homo and do well and kitna with his 10 wins wont be that hard to beat out for best qb in div[/quote]
Well, I hope Rodgers does well. But as of right now, Kitna is the best. That’s kinda sad.