Favre Retires? Well Allow Me To Retort
So Brett Favre is retiring from the NFL after 17 seasons, eh? What timing:
The news was first reported this morning by Foxsports.com’s Jay Glazer, who said that Favre informed the Packers of his decision over the last couple of days. In recent years, Favre has taken time after the season before deciding whether to return. Coming off one of his most successful seasons in years, you had to think Favre might make one more run at a Super Bowl.
Call me the hater, but when I think of Brett Favre I won’t remember the happy-go-lucky gunslinger of the mid 90’s. I’ll remember the surly standoffish guy who wouldn’t relate to his teammates, who admonished Javon Walker for trying to capitalize on his success and get a new contract, who held the franchise hostage year after year by hinting at retirement hamstringing the team’s plans in free agency and the draft, who criticized the team for not getting Randy Moss, who kept his consecutive games started streak to the detriment of the play of the offense at times.
And as a Dan Marino fan and cynic, it strikes me as odd that Favre didn’t retire when his team sucked last year and they didn’t get Randy Moss, but after a season where he broke all of Marino’s career records he chooses to hang it up when the Packers were a FG away from the Super Bowl and clearly on the up. It’s just like when he gave Michael Strahan the sack that broke Mark Gastineau’s single season record. Plus there’s speculation that there was a connection that he announced this the same day when the Randy Moss re-signed with the Patriots and the Packers again didn’t go after him as a free agent. Bush league. Sportsman of the year, my ass.
I’ve never liked Favre as a person and this just compounds it. Even though he’s a Jeff Tedford product and destined to fail in the NFL, I will now root for Aaron Rogers to take them to the Super Bowl next season. GO PACK GO.
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