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Originally Posted by Lotus
That's when my sympathy for Favre plummeted. Everyone else could understand that the Packers had to consider their future, Rodgers was approaching possible free agency, etc. But Favre couldn't.
It must have been hard for Unitas to be let go so that he had to play in San Diego. It must have been hard for Montana to pass the torch in San Fran and move on to KC. But neither of those guys acted like a big entitled baby, which was Favre's response.
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I'm decidedly in this camp as well, and I'm actually surprised at the level of sympathy he's generated for what happened with the Packers '08 season. That story begins with Favre informing the Packers that he was through playing football, and somehow the Packers' management ultimately gets faulted for having believed him. On few other occasions have I felt more convinced of contrived humility than when Favre tearfully proclaimed during his first retirement press conference that he hoped the Green Bay Packers organization believed that every dime they spent on him was worth it (as if the organization's, and the sports world's, glorification of his play was already pervasively evident--was he so utterly humble that he wanted us to believe he didn't notice it?!). I was even more confident of my first impression when only a few months later he orchestrated that ridiculous dramatic return to Green Bay, what with the preannounced landing at the airport and the arrival at Lambeau Field for the Family Night event, with the obvious aim to exploit the adoration that he tried to seem oblivious to in that retirement press conference in the hope that the organization's management would be public-pressured in to bending to his will. They didn't. Damn good for them.
I similarly was rooting against Favre last night. I understand that this thread is about his play, and yes, I agree, he played his heart out. But I'm still happy the egomaniacal Favre lost.