Letters to the Editor
-
Favre is done
Favre should "return" as quarterback coach for some other team.
Other than the nostalgia, Rodgers should have been Packers QB this past year.
-
I can I miss you if you won't go away
I am so sick of Brett Favre and I'm so sick of the media adulation of him. He is not deserving of it. And the fact that he broke Marino's records just out sheer longevity is really criminal. Marino actually had talent. Favre is a decent quarterback who made as many bad decisions on the field as good ones.
-
Favre was better than Marino
What's wrong with using longetivity to break records that were set due to...longetivity? Marino stuck around three years too long too, you know. They were cut of the same cloth -- both were enamored of their arms to the extent that it became a detriment late in their careers. Their passer ratings were about the same. Marino just had a better offensive line than Favre, which helped mask his biggest weakness, his immobility. Favre could make a play with his legs in his younger days -- Marino never could. Favre leads in MVPs 3 to 1, and Super Bowl rings 1 to 0. I'll take him over Marino any old day.
-
wrong season, wrong sport
One thing far worse than Farve's predictable indecision is articles in April about anything NFL related.
Both the Royals and Marlins are in first place. The Tigers and Yankees are in last place. Keep your head on a swivel and get in the game, Kaufman. It's God damn baseball season!
-
Actually
it's hockey playoff time. Just a 155 games to go for each baseball team. Anyway, thanks for bringing up Favre, it made me think of the OT pass against the Giants, then it all came rushing back. What a year for the G-Men.
-
Panel o' Peons
My office pool was actually on who would win the Panel o' Experts. Scott the Hoople won the pool. He gets a picture of a sumptuous meal cut out of a magazine, and a crude drawing of King's caricature on a cocktail napkin.
-
If ego and money weren't factors
...it would have been nice to see Favre voluntarily step back last season into relief and quasi-coaching status, at least after the Dallas game. It would have been unusual but rather cool to see someone of his status sublimate his obvious love of the game into a supportive role. And of course he's iconic in Wisc. But Favre himself was dismissive of Jim McMahon when McMahon played backup for the Packers after his glory days.
-
Qpublic
You've never actually watched a football game, have you. Favre was far better than Marino. Hell the only reason Marino set those records was longevity and a Me First attitude.
-
Reorters
If you're sick of hearing him answer questions honestly, stop asking them. Or stop listening. Or just go cover politics, they'll tell you any old thing you want to hear. I don't think he'll come back, but as long as reporters keep asking him hypotheticals and begging him to come back, what's he supposed to do, lie so you'll feel better?
-
@Lynx Favre answers phone at 3AM
That's true. Favre was basically asked the equivalent of "would you rush into a burning building to save the babies."
It's not going to happen. The Packers have a possibly good-to-great qb and they will use their draft pick to pick up another qb. By the middle of next season Favre will be fat on beer and deep-fried Southern cooking.
-
football in April?
King, please take note:
For the second day in a row some of your faithful readers are calling for you to share some of your obvious writing talent and pen something on current sporting events... like the NHL playoffs.
To quote mattmclain re: football - "wrong season, wrong sport".
With that said, I think Favre was a great player, and I don't understand all of the negative commentary about him.
Go Bruins!
-
Hockey is not a sport
Why not some real content on track and field and the run up to the summer Olympics (besides the torch).
-
No Coverage
Of the NCAA Frozen Four? Pathetic.
-
In other news
Montreal just spanked the Bruins.
After 2:02 in the game it was Kostitsyns brothers 2 Boston Bruins 0 and game over.
-
follow-up
@JackSparx
Duh! Yes it is a sport.
@Fournier
Yes, but there are 6 games left.
-
I'm Done with Farve
I'm so sick of hearing about the womanizing, drug using, let his friends hang out to dry, career interception leading, QB that cost his team a shot at the Super Bowl in 2008.
Oh wait, this post doesn't follow the image that the sports media has created for Farve. I forgot that all references to Farve have to say someting about how he played the game with such joy while ignoring all of his flaws (both personal and athletic).
-
hairyfred
Well sure, if you're just going to make crap up. That's why I don't like you. The way you tried to kill Joe Montana with a rocket launcher and all.
-
Lynx
What exactly did I make up?
Was it the womanizing which was widely reported earlier in his career and along with his hip and Glanville's dislike led him to GB?
Was it the drug using which he went to rehab for?
Was it leaving his friend out to dry which you can find filed under Chmura, Mark?
Was it career interception leader which can be seen anywhere?
Was it costing his team a shot at the Super Bowl which is going to make Corey Webster!?!? a bunch of money?
Please enlighten me.
-
hairyfred
Calling him a womanizer now because 20 years ago he was a partier? That's looking for something bad to say and not really finding anything so you exaggerate something from the distant past and pretend it is ongoing. He's been a devoted family man for years.
You mean the prescription drugs the team doctors got him hooked on that he publicly talked about, went through rehab for and hasn't touched since? Yeah, I hate when athletes admit to addiction, get clean and act as good role models.
Mark Chmura? Seriously? He's plural now? And he went to a post PROM party and was accused of sexually inappropriate acts. He was acquitted, but admitted it wasn't something a married man should have been doing. And you have NO idea what was said about all this between him and Favre. Categorizing this as Favre hanging him out to dry is idiotic.
Yep, he has the career interception record. Also the TD record, the yardage record, the most MVPs and scores of other records. He made some bad judgements in a career that led him to more wins than any other QB. Oh no. Not that. Don't win games for us Favre. I'd much prefer you lost constantly but don't throw INTs.
Players cost their teams shots at the superbowl all the time. Why aren't you complaining about the QBs on the 28 other teams that didn't even get that close? Why aren't you railing about the Pats D players that cost them a victory?
You tell the truth like Karl Rove. You seem to have an idea what "truth" is, you just find it distasteful.