A True Packer After all
Brett Favre will be remembered as the ultimate iron-man, gunslinger, and lover of the game. If he decided to come back year after year, throw a billion picks, and keep it up until at 82 he suffers a stroke on the field, his reputation wouldn’t be tarnished. His reputation is based primarily on his love of the game and his ability to keep at it, playing more games would only bolster his reputation. Brett is also known for being somewhat of an emotional diva. That is why I didn’t blink an eye when he was thinking about playing for the Vikings. It made perfect sense. He was ticked and wanted to stick it to the packers and that whiny kid Aaron Rodgers. He is the vindictive girl friend, the Hermione who asks out McCormack, he is Brett Favre – and we are ok with it.
The most interesting piece of this latest saga is not his familiar waffling, or the idea of the high powered offense the Vikings could have had, but the impact that Brett Favre will make by not signing. The Vikings quarterbacks are young, inexperienced, and have less of an arm than Favre will have at 62. Yet for the rest of the season they will be compared to Brett. After every incompletion or interception they will be held up to an impossible standard. Sooner or later the pressure will be too much and the poor young Viking Quarterbacks are going to fail and going to fail miserably. Despite the Vikings superior running game, and their tremendous offense, the whiny little brat from Green Bay – whom Brett despises – is going to win the division. Not because he is suddenly a better quarterback, but because the pressure to live up to Favre has been lifted and placed on the Vikings.
