Letters to the Editor
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terrible choice
"Favre is having his best statistical season, ever."
And that's good enough to be perhaps the 4th best season by a QB _this year_. Brady, Manning, and Romo are all clearly superior to Favre right now.
Favre is an all-time great but the pretense for giving him this award for this season is very thin. Historically, SI has given the award to a sportsman performing at the highest level of the sport _that year_.
Meanwhile, Roger Federer wins 99% of the matches he plays.
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Whispers, buy a clue
"And that's good enough to be perhaps the 4th best season by a QB _this year_. Brady, Manning, and Romo are all clearly superior to Favre right now.
Favre is an all-time great but the pretense for giving him this award for this season is very thin. Historically, SI has given the award to a sportsman performing at the highest level of the sport _that year_.
Meanwhile, Roger Federer wins 99% of the matches he plays."
Do you even watch football? Being an obvious tennis fan, I suspect not. Anyway, as a lifelong football observer, let me clue you in to a little fact: Manning is NOT having an elite season, by his own standards, or anyone else's. Favre's QB rating is 97.9 to Manning's 92.5. Favre has considerably more yards, exactly one (1) less TD (despite missing most of the Dallas game), but, at the same time, despite his rep for recklessness, he has three (3) less INTs. Oh yeah, Favre's completion percentage is considerably higher, and his YPA is even better. This, despite the fact that Reggie Wayne is twice the receiver of anyone on Green Bay's roster, and that Dallas Clark is a far more dangerous pass catching TE than Donald Lee or "Bubbacatchballfalldown" Franks. Oh yeah, because Addai is an elite runner (compared to who for the Packers? Ryan Grant? Vernand Morency?), Manning gets to play with a lot less safety coverage. Finally, the Colts have a highly regarded line, with Pro Bowlers in Jeff Saturday and Tarik Glenn, whereas the Packers have a bunch of no-names.
How, pray tell, is that "clearly superior" to Favre? Do you care to defend your statement? Your "analysis" is so broke I have to laugh. The fact that Manning appears in 10,000 commercials every Sunday does not automatically mean he is the best QB going, although that I would understand a casual observer such as yourself falling prey to that misconception.
As for the other two, while Brady is having a statistically superior season, Brady is also throwing the ball to a far better set of receivers, such as, oh, I don't know, RANDY FRIGGIN' MOSS, only the most talented wideout of all time, and a guy who surely would have broken all of Rice's career records but for his wasted Oakland years. Welker is the best slot guy in the league. Stallworth is a jet as a #2. Watson is one of the most athletic TEs in the league. Even those his production is way down this year (owning mostly to the Pats' game plan), Maroney is a far more threatening runner than anyone Green Bay can run out there. Driver, Jennings, Jones and Lee are ok, but are nowhere near that class. Romo, whatever, his numbers are not definitively better than Favre's, and regardless, he also happens to be throwing to a Top-3 WR (Owens) AND Top-3 TE (Witten), is protected by a bunch of fatbodies AVERAGING 324 lbs, and has a far better running game to support him.
Please, stick to what you know, and I'll do the same. I won't tell you how the men's tennis game is a complete joke these days due to the introduction of wildly powerful racquets, and how there probably hasn't been a volley lasting longer than 15 seconds since Ivan Lendl was in puberty, as I admit I know nothing about the game. Given that the inverse--namely, that a meaningful grasp of football plainly eludes you--please, do the me the favor of sparing us your wisdom.
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Joe Namath
Joe Namath may well be the single most overrated person in American sports history. Take one admittedly big win in the Super Bowl, throw in a few style points, simmer with Madison Ave. marketing campaign and voila, Hall of Famer! Ridiculous.
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Brady is amazing
Dreamweapon and all the Pats haters -- Those who scoff at Brady's performance this season obviously have not followed his career and chalk it all up to Moss et al...you forget that this is the FIRST year the guy has had such superior talent. Last year, he almost brought the Pats to the SB FOR THE 4th TIME with 4th and 5th and 6th string caliber receivers...and in the previous years' SB wins he never had the talent he has this year --they were basically ragtag teams with ragtag come from behind wins. Because of the great receivers corps he has FINALLY been gifted with this year, he is finally having the kind of incredible stats year that Manning has had (with the superior receiving corps the Colts have ALWAYS surrounded PM with...and it took him YEARS to finally get an SB ring despite being ringed by talent) -- but he already has THREE SB rings. Brady won in previous years with very little...which is what makes him probably the greatest ever in the NFL when all is said and done (and by the time all is said and done, he'll probably have a few more SB wins under his belt, as long as he stays healthy). Brett Favre's career, when he retires, will never compare to Brady's.