Case of the Mondays: Brett Favre makes you feel what you should not

January 14th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

brett_favre2jpg.jpgI know as a Bears fan, I’m supposed to hate Brett Favre — perhaps hoping he’d drown in a pool of liquid cheese somewhere in Kenosha. And I really can’t say I like Brett Favre, but I don’t harbor any deep-rooted rivalry angst against the guy as say, the other person that writes for this site does.

But this weekend was really something else. I was watching the highlights of the Green Bay victory over the Seahawks in that awful snow Saturday evening — spring, please get here soon — with fellow Bears fans and they were actively rooting for the guy, going so far as to rewind that flailing scoop pass over and over again and watch in wonderment. And another friend — a Lions fan — was enthusiastically petitioning for Favre and the Packers to run the table and dethrone the Patriots in the Super Bowl and have that be Favre’s final bow. And those three seemed to be in complete agreement that this would be an awesome finish to this post season — a division rival winning the Super Bowl not because it makes your division look good, but because they were actively rooting for a player who burned them on many occasions throughout his career. (I’m not saying everyone feels this way about Favre. There are plenty that loathe and despise them even more now.)

I do not know how Brett Favre does this to the hearts of men; he seems to be able to turn what we should think about him and make us think something entirely different. It’s perhaps because seeing the hard to fathom, the unthinkable seems to supersede anything we should rationally be thinking. Later on Saturday night, I saw some dude at a bar wearing a dopey Packers 3/4 sleeve tee and I stopped and gave him a congratulations, bringing up Favre’s mastery in the process.

He told me as a diehard Bucks fans, he felt the same way about Michael Jordan. He couldn’t help but appreciate and admire Jordan going off in that game against the Jazz as he battled that nasty flu.

So I suppose this is how it goes: do something great, something that makes others stop and stare and even though they shouldn’t, they might just turn to your side. They’ll probably leave that ugly t-shirt at home, though.

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5 Responses to “ Case of the Mondays: Brett Favre makes you feel what you should not”


  1. Bobby
    January 14, 200811:21 am

    Finally a decent post about the Packers. I was hoping it came from E.

  2. PostmanE
    January 14, 200811:28 am

    I see you Bobby. And I raise you an even heightened sense of hate thanks to R’s insistence on infecting our fair site with Farve goodwill. As if the man doesn’t get enough of a weekly blow-j from the national media, now the Postmen are full of admiration and respect for the grizzled, Wrangler-wearing True American too.

    Argh. I fully admit Farve’s talent and respectability as a human being. I just find it difficult to get around to liking the one man in sport who seems to generate positive press no matter what he does. He’s a legendary player. He’s also very annoying. I can still be a sports fan now, right?

  3. Johnny Swanson
    January 14, 200812:57 pm

    @Postmane

    Has he done a lot to generate negative press in his days? I’ll give you two examples, but they are cheap and hardly worth disliking the man at all for. Painkillers, and the “will he, won’t he?” comeback talk the last few seasons. He’s allowed that right as a great, and the painkillers, I mean, who cares, how many games in a row is it now? Hell, I’d be downing vicodin before a game if I had to play in that league. As for everyone blowing him, they did the same for Montana, Jordan, etc etc, they’ll be doing it for Kobe when he goes which is unfortunate, but hit the nail on the head, stop and make EVERYONE look on in awe, you win a lot of unapologetic supporters.

  4. PostmanE
    January 14, 20081:13 pm

    I understand that if you do crazy-good things on the field of play, you will win a lot of unapologetic supporters. I grew up with Michael Jordan, after all.

    I will say this: If any other player would have made the fuss Farve made in the past few years about being traded/not acquiring enough talent for his liking/not signing talented offensive free agents/not trading for Randy Moss, he would have gotten reamed.

    But that’s not really my point. My point is: I just get annoyed. I get annoyed with every time Farve does a little hand-fake, or smiles, or tosses an underhand ball for a first down — all noteworthy things, I admit — people fawn like they get paid by the positive word. And it’s always the same cliched tripe. Can’t we come up with new ways to describe this man (preferably ways that don’t make me want to take a sharp object to my trachea, but I’ll remain nonspecific about that)?

  5. Johnny Swanson
    January 14, 20081:20 pm

    I just blame the media and the coverage and the source of all the crap. You have to be able to watch the games without listening, see the games without paying attention, ya know? Best pure way to enjoy sport is to keep it untainted from a bunch of brown stinkhole analists and crap anyways. Really, I think teams should all come up with their own broadcasting networks, free obviously, where they can provide whatever announcers they please, and the road team will just have to wait till the home game in order to hear their side of the story. Guys like Joe Buck and Joe Morgan and *shudders* Bill Walton, whom think their drivle is more important than the word, need to gracefully exit stage left. Don’t any athletes retire in their twilight anymore? With a little class?

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