Thread for those who didn't like Brett Favre...

Pearls&Stones wrote:

I Anyone else hate Brett Favre?

Anyone who likes, knows and respects football would not hate Brett.

Nah, I don't hate him. I would not put him in league with Brady and Manning, but he was fun to watch most of the time. He'd chuck the ball anywhere, anytime. That's also why he lost a lot, but I doubt he'll be remembered for that.

How many times did Michael Jordan miss the game-winning shot? I think it was at least 30 or so. Nobody cares.

Brett was one of the most fun guys in the NFL and had a die hard passion for the game.

Peace

sennin wrote:

*crickets*

lol no shit !

The great thing about him is that he seemed like a better person than a football player, after all thats probably the most important thing anyways.

16 seasons MOFO, and at least 12 of which were greatness!

Aikman, Young, Bledsoe, now Favre (I'll add Marino/Elawy too though they were part of the great 80's too)...end of a great era.

LongRd. wrote:

16 seasons MOFO, and at least 12 of which were greatness!

Aikman, Young, Bledsoe, now Favre (I'll add Marino/Elawy too though they were part of the great 80's too)...end of a great era.

i agree, he was the last of special kind of player. we will not see that type of player for a long time if ever again.

end of a great era indeed.

as of today, in ways, football will never mean as much to me, and im a cincinnati bengals fan BTW.

Pearls&Stones wrote:

I will respectfully honor the wishes of those who started the other Brett Favre thread (for no negativity), but I will start my own. Anyone else hate Brett Favre? I liked him back in the day, but when he started his whiny, diva-like primadona off season soap operas, I just lost it.

As for his play on the field, Brett was a slightly above-average quarterback who threw far too many interceptions. He isn't even the third best quarterback of the last two decades (Brady, Payton and Elway have him beat in that regard, and Roethlisberger is closing in as well.)

If more professional athletes played with as much passion and determination as Brett Favre professional sports as a whole would be much better. I love the way he played the game.

ryan198 wrote:

I should write a journal article on Brett Favre and the ridiculous amounts of love that guy gets. Yeah he was pretty good, great-ish even, though probably only the best QB in the league for a two season stretch. Even Kurt Warner has done that. What Favre did was tap into the inner racist in white people, the gunslinglin' hard nosed, blue collar work ethic that we white people just all adore...ugh. The funny thing is that if Favre were not white he'd be a drug addicted (vicodin) animal killer (his love of hunting) with PETA all over him, but he's Brett Favre father of Jesus Christ, and the mother of nature, so he can do no wrong. Why aren't more people on him for using drugs to break the record for games started in a row? Is he any less of a cheater than Bonds or Clemens? I personally think Favre is a fuck who got away with a whole lot, and was built up in the media for playing his part as a southern gentlemen to perfection. good riddance.

Roger Clemens is black??? NO WAY!

It's got nothing to do with race, dude. I've never heard of any non-white athlete get bad press because they liked to hunt. And Farve did get bad press back when his drug addiction was revealed. But he got over it, and people usually see that as a good thing.

BTW, vicodin doesn't help you perform better like steriods, and nobody really cares about how many games he started. They care about how he played the game and how he conducted himself on the field.

Anyone who doesn't put him 'in the same league' as Brady and Manning obviously didn't watch him from 1994 - 1998. 3 consecutive MVP's (unprecedented) and 2 consecutive trips to the Super Bowl. He should have won the Super Bowl MVP in 1996 and would have won it the next year had the pulled out the victory. The Iron Man streak, all of the records, overcoming the lack of supporting cast for many years, overcoming personal tragedy (Raiders game) and the list goes on and on.

Manning has had a worse playoff choke history than Favre ever has and Brady has had far and away better coaching and roster management around him. Aside from this past year when his roster was loaded, Brady hasn't exactly blown Favre's stats out of the water or anything.

Aside from an anti-Favre bias or being too young to know what you're talking about, I can't honestly see how anyone can say Brady and Manning are head and shoulders above Favre. Personally, I would put all 3 in the top 10, with Favre slightly ahead. Manning and Brady both have plenty of football left and can certainly overtake Favre down the road, but to minimalize his career like that at this point is just lacking in football knowledge and history.