Yoda Im sure this is making you more sick of Favre than you already were, and my hope of changing your tune on him has failed catostrophically.
Guys this debate is going on forever, and I think this really is a argument over a glass being half empty or full. An icon and legend wasnt what everyone thought, and be it a Packer fan or just a football fan people are critical. Yes Yoda I still think Favres a great human being besides a good football player. I actually think his character outweighes his career even. His indecisiveness wasnt a great show of strength or professionalism, but hey I like my heros flawed. At least hes not beating his wife, partying in strip clubs, hanging out with a criminal element, on tv advertisements left n right (though he could be), and crying like T.O. about management or talent to the media.
PWs comment of questioning my mettle as a fan kinda irked me. Ysee PW when I was a kid I was a huge Pete Rose fan. I even did a standup book report on Rose, while pretending to be him, in front of my class in high school. When Petes gambling came out talk about the ***** hitting the fan on that image. I dont respect him as a man, but I gotta respect Charlie Hustle. The Ty Cobb of our time. Maybe my respect for Rose is how I could endure being a Raider fan later on. After all if any football owner could have ever been in the mob it would be Al Davis.
Brett Favre is a better man than a Rose or Davis, and yet people jeered him with more fervency than those 2 ever will. People openly jeer that hes overrated, and a fake. No he doesnt deserve it, but he was keeping a smile off his face sunday because he knows he doesnt deserve it. A Terrell Owens might deserve it especially in Philly, but people dont judge the T.O.'s too critically like they do Brett.
Tom Jackson on ESPN was one of those critical of Favre, but when Minnesota beat St Louis with that last throw out of a b-rated movie Jackson commented he understood why he did what he did signing with Minny. The love of the game, and even his detractors should know he has it. It was the kid in him as Jackson put it. Having said that back when Tom Jackson was a player for the Broncos departing he also said no to the Raiders, and said no amount of money would have been enough. So its really just a persons individual interpretation of the same event. Either hes forgiven or not.
Guys this debate is going on forever, and I think this really is a argument over a glass being half empty or full. An icon and legend wasnt what everyone thought, and be it a Packer fan or just a football fan people are critical. Yes Yoda I still think Favres a great human being besides a good football player. I actually think his character outweighes his career even. His indecisiveness wasnt a great show of strength or professionalism, but hey I like my heros flawed. At least hes not beating his wife, partying in strip clubs, hanging out with a criminal element, on tv advertisements left n right (though he could be), and crying like T.O. about management or talent to the media.
PWs comment of questioning my mettle as a fan kinda irked me. Ysee PW when I was a kid I was a huge Pete Rose fan. I even did a standup book report on Rose, while pretending to be him, in front of my class in high school. When Petes gambling came out talk about the ***** hitting the fan on that image. I dont respect him as a man, but I gotta respect Charlie Hustle. The Ty Cobb of our time. Maybe my respect for Rose is how I could endure being a Raider fan later on. After all if any football owner could have ever been in the mob it would be Al Davis.
Brett Favre is a better man than a Rose or Davis, and yet people jeered him with more fervency than those 2 ever will. People openly jeer that hes overrated, and a fake. No he doesnt deserve it, but he was keeping a smile off his face sunday because he knows he doesnt deserve it. A Terrell Owens might deserve it especially in Philly, but people dont judge the T.O.'s too critically like they do Brett.
Tom Jackson on ESPN was one of those critical of Favre, but when Minnesota beat St Louis with that last throw out of a b-rated movie Jackson commented he understood why he did what he did signing with Minny. The love of the game, and even his detractors should know he has it. It was the kid in him as Jackson put it. Having said that back when Tom Jackson was a player for the Broncos departing he also said no to the Raiders, and said no amount of money would have been enough. So its really just a persons individual interpretation of the same event. Either hes forgiven or not.
Last edited by TONGO; 11-04-09 at 10:44 PM.