OFFICIAL BRETT THE LIVING LEGEND THREAD

[Scott Campbell]

Life isn't fair. Bert should be getting ready to disregard the Indy game plan and audible out of running plays.

[Scott Campbell]

nothing being posted surprises me at all in here ; I called this one last week

I wanted to make sure you got this one right, because God knows you won't be close on draft day.

[Iron Mike]

Check out the consternation in the Land Of Choke.

[MichiganPackerFan]

I understand a lot of you still love favre and root for him and are probably not having the best day today. I respect that opinion, even though I disagree.

After watching #4 go play for the team I most passionately hate after cheering for him for 16 years, I felt deeply betrayed. And yes, I am still bitter about it. But the game yesterday gave me a bit of relief: I loved watching the saints go after him and pound him into the ground over and over. I also enjoyed watching him limp off the field, because that's what a sports traitor deserves. To me it felt like he got exactly what he gave to the fans. And seeing him choke with the picks was great seeing him do that for the rival team, just as he did to us over and over. I've had to listen to people mock him for his playoff chokes for a decade and always defended him. Today, I get to listen to them talk about how he choked for another team, and there is something distinctly satisfying about that. I hope he comes back for one last season, because I want the Packers to steamroll through them now that they've got some experience in the 3-4 and not playing them twice as the scheme is in its infancy.

Anyway, I do understand that many of you disagree, which is your right, but this is MY opinion!

MichiganPackerFan, you are reading my mind. I cheered for that goofball for 16 years. It hasn't been any fun AT ALL watching him play so well for the one team I loathe the most. On some Packer boards queen fans would come on and rub it in our faces on top of it all. Nausiating to say the least. And now that #4 has thrown yet another pick in a playoff game to ruin the Vikes' season I will revel in this. If Favre fans don't like it, I'm sorry but that is how I feel.

Thank god for our two classy vikes fans in here!!!

[Lurker64]

Check out the consternation in the Land Of Choke.

Oh, even funnier, in the absence of a CBA extension, since the Vikings finished in the the top four teams in the league, so they won't be allowed to sign any free agents who were not cuts (or Vikings whose contracts have expired).

[gex]

nothing being posted surprises me at all in here

It surprises me a little. My 14 yo son gave me shit all year about cheering for Brett. Yet last night when all was said and done after the game he posted something on FB that was way more mature then most I've read in the last 5-6 pages. Made me proud he presented himself, as an athlete and a fan, in that way. To sit back and wait and watch for someone to fail or not to rise to your expectations and then to point the finger and laugh and belittle is surely not a character trait I'd wish upon anyone. To each their own.

The only thing about that is, I do not consider the season Brett had anything close to a failure. Making it to the championship game and having one of your best years ever at the age of 40 is far from failing. Also, on top of that the courage,grit, and willpower to keep getting up hit after hit, play after play just cemented his ironman legacy forever.
Not making the superbowl with the Vikes....oh well, proving to himself and the world what he is made of,and having fun while doing it....priceless!

[mraynrand]

nothing being posted surprises me at all in here

It surprises me a little. My 14 yo son gave me shit all year about cheering for Brett. Yet last night when all was said and done after the game he posted something on FB that was way more mature then most I've read in the last 5-6 pages. Made me proud he presented himself, as an athlete and a fan, in that way. To sit back and wait and watch for someone to fail or not to rise to your expectations and then to point the finger and laugh and belittle is surely not a character trait I'd wish upon anyone. To each their own.

The only thing about that is, I do not consider the season Brett had anything close to a failure. Making it to the championship game and having one of your best years ever at the age of 40 is far from failing. Also, on top of that the courage,grit, and willpower to keep getting up hit after hit, play after play just cemented his ironman legacy forever.
Not making the superbowl with the Vikes....oh well, proving to himself and the world what he is made of,and having fun while doing it....priceless!

Those are nice things for an FFF. And for an FFF, you can't expect more. But the Vikings brought Favre in to win the Superbowl. They made the playoffs and almost won a Wildcard with T Jack. Favre should have given them the trophy. He failed them. And the rest of the team helped.

[GrnBay007]

nothing being posted surprises me at all in here

It surprises me a little. My 14 yo son gave me shit all year about cheering for Brett. Yet last night when all was said and done after the game he posted something on FB that was way more mature then most I've read in the last 5-6 pages. Made me proud he presented himself, as an athlete and a fan, in that way. To sit back and wait and watch for someone to fail or not to rise to your expectations and then to point the finger and laugh and belittle is surely not a character trait I'd wish upon anyone. To each their own.

The only thing about that is, I do not consider the season Brett had anything close to a failure. Making it to the championship game and having one of your best years ever at the age of 40 is far from failing. Also, on top of that the courage,grit, and willpower to keep getting up hit after hit, play after play just cemented his ironman legacy forever.
Not making the superbowl with the Vikes....oh well, proving to himself and the world what he is made of,and having fun while doing it....priceless!

He had a fantastic season and played his heart out in that last game. He didn't fail, or let any fans down. He was part of a TEAM that failed to win.

[Bretsky]

For Viking fans, I almost feel bad for them. This was their purple 4th and 26 game. It will haunt them forever - especially since they still have no championships. They were the better team on Sunday, and should have won by 10+. It took a series of impossible catastrophes to bring them down - the last one being one of the most gut wrenching things I can ever imagine watching in sports. Or as I like to say - magically delicious.

For us Packers first fans, I thought we were toast. The game was in the bag. Over. The fat lady had sung and Harlan was already hitting her up for a "ride" home. I had braced myself for the inevitable suffering that would be PackerRats. Thompson would have been vilified for trading they guy that put the Vikings in the Superbowl. It was my worst nightmare as a long time poster. I felt completely helpless. And it was absolutely going to happen.










And then it didn't.


Thanks Bert!
:P

Maybe I'm dead wrong, but had the Vikings won I thought those who were in favor of them would have taken the high road overall.

I can't imagine blaming TT for letting the QB go who led the Vikes to the Super Bowl. Saying that would just be over the top moronic.

We have our QB now; TT made the right choice for the future of the Packers.

[mraynrand]

He had a fantastic season and played his heart out in that last game.

true

He didn't fail, or let any fans down.

Not true. Ask this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PUAgITZfq0 NSFW

He was part of a TEAM that failed to win.

Indeed

[mraynrand]

I can't imagine blaming TT for letting the QB go who led the Vikes to the Super Bowl. Saying that would just be over the top moronic.

It would have been a simple fact. A lot of FFFs blame TT for letting Favre go and think Favre should still be QBing the Pack. Why does this surprise you? I don't see anything moronic about it. It's just a GM making a decision he thought best and fans agreeing/disagreeing. It's just so heated because of who Favre is and where he went. TT is responsible.

[Bretsky]

I can't imagine blaming TT for letting the QB go who led the Vikes to the Super Bowl. Saying that would just be over the top moronic.

It would have been a simple fact. A lot of FFFs blame TT for letting Favre go and think Favre should still be QBing the Pack. Why does this surprise you? I don't see anything moronic about it. It's just a GM making a decision he thought best and fans agreeing/disagreeing. It's just so heated because of who Favre is and where he went. TT is responsible.

It's moronic to note that being negative because the decision to let Favre go has worked out fine for Green Bay. Lately it seems that I find myself being a really odd fan in my perceptions of this whole situation.

[BZnDallas]

nothing being posted surprises me at all in here

It surprises me a little. My 14 yo son gave me shit all year about cheering for Brett. Yet last night when all was said and done after the game he posted something on FB that was way more mature then most I've read in the last 5-6 pages. Made me proud he presented himself, as an athlete and a fan, in that way. To sit back and wait and watch for someone to fail or not to rise to your expectations and then to point the finger and laugh and belittle is surely not a character trait I'd wish upon anyone. To each their own.

The only thing about that is, I do not consider the season Brett had anything close to a failure. Making it to the championship game and having one of your best years ever at the age of 40 is far from failing. Also, on top of that the courage,grit, and willpower to keep getting up hit after hit, play after play just cemented his ironman legacy forever.
Not making the superbowl with the Vikes....oh well, proving to himself and the world what he is made of,and having fun while doing it....priceless!

thats good to know, b/c after playing almost 20 years w/o missing a game, i think the ironman legacy was in jeopardy...

[Bossman641]

For Viking fans, I almost feel bad for them. This was their purple 4th and 26 game. It will haunt them forever - especially since they still have no championships. They were the better team on Sunday, and should have won by 10+. It took a series of impossible catastrophes to bring them down - the last one being one of the most gut wrenching things I can ever imagine watching in sports. Or as I like to say - magically delicious.

For us Packers first fans, I thought we were toast. The game was in the bag. Over. The fat lady had sung and Harlan was already hitting her up for a "ride" home. I had braced myself for the inevitable suffering that would be PackerRats. Thompson would have been vilified for trading they guy that put the Vikings in the Superbowl. It was my worst nightmare as a long time poster. I felt completely helpless. And it was absolutely going to happen.










And then it didn't.


Thanks Bert!
:P

I was in the exact same boat. As the Vikings were driving I was already giving them the win and was thinking how much it was going to suck hearing about them for the next 2 weeks. I also was ready to hand them the SB and was thinking to myself how unfair and just plain wrong it was that somebody who had acted like such an asshole was going to get his way and achieve what he had wanted. And then, the 5 yard penalty and I'm thinking there's a chance. The old man rolls out right.....and the rest is history.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I thought you'd be too busy collecting sports memorabilia for your Mark Sanchez room.

Nah, dont like any Mex who takes shit from some fatass White boy. Besides he is a Southern Mexican.

OK, I ask for a point of clarification.

Is this someone from the Southern US? Southern California? Or Southern Mexico?

I was confused by this as well, since he was a high school star in Northern Mexico, a.k.a. California. He was a nortorious cheap shot artist at safety, known widely as Dirty Sanchez