OFFICIAL BRETT THE LIVING LEGEND THREAD

[mraynrand]

^^^^^THAT ended for many of you when he joined another team. Jen Sterger deal was just icing on the cake...a gift with perfect timing. If Favre was still a Packer and playing great football this board would have been full of posts about what a whore and gold digger she is. Sorry but I don't doubt that one bit.

I think there would have been some who would have defended him, but I suspect the negatives would have even been worse for him. Favre and the media set him up as a reformed womanizer, survivor of drug and alcohol addiction. I think he would have gotten the Mark Chmura treatment. Rather than being a source of mocking derision as the corrupted traitor, he would have been seen as the fallen hero, being deeply embarrassing to the state of WI. Minnesota can shrug him off as a creepy carpetbagger, but he would have been a humiliation to WI. His admittedly vengeful, spiteful attempt to stick it to Thompson, McCarthy and all Packer fans actually helped the state of WI, because we were able to disown him before his shameful behaviour re-emerged. Otherwise it would be the Packers and WI that would have had to bear the brunt of his unsavory escapades. THANKSFAVRE.

[ThunderDan]

^^^^^THAT ended for many of you when he joined another team. Jen Sterger deal was just icing on the cake...a gift with perfect timing. If Favre was still a Packer and playing great football this board would have been full of posts about what a whore and gold digger she is. Sorry but I don't doubt that one bit.

I had no problem with BF going to the Jets. Once he went to MINN the whole ball of wax changed.

[Little Whiskey]

I had no problem with BF going to the Jets. Once he went to MINN the whole ball of wax changed.

I felt the same way. I even rooted for the jets that year. the minny move was completely different.

[RashanGary]

^^^^^THAT ended for many of you when he joined another team. Jen Sterger deal was just icing on the cake...a gift with perfect timing. If Favre was still a Packer and playing great football this board would have been full of posts about what a whore and gold digger she is. Sorry but I don't doubt that one bit.

I wasn't as committed to Favre as many. During the 2007 season, after he went ape shit in teh Dallas game, I said there is no way this guy wins a championship. He tries to be the center of attention in big games and flops. But then again, I was a fan of him for a long time too, had a senior picture taken with a Favre jersey . That game Aaron came in cool as a cucumber and that's when I said I think we'll be OK without him. Up until that point almost everyone 'cept a few wise souls (shadow, patler, b_bulldog to name a couple) thought Favre was the savior of GB and without him we couldn't win.

Even then there were factions of us who bitched and complained about his non commitment to the team. We cited stories of Montana showing up for everything until his last year in the league. We talked about how Favre seemed to believe he was above the team.

There was already Favre tension, even before the split. The difference was that the Favre loyalists had the backing of the majority and the few of us who spoke out were out numbered badly.

3 years later, history has shown us (ted mostly, shadow, patler and b_bulldog partly, and lastly guys like me who spray opinions around and some paint hits the wall) to be correct. Favre was a me first guy playing a team game. He wasn't the great, honest, faithful guy who overcame some battles in his youth. He's a guy who'll lie and manipulate to get anything he wants including a new girlfriend on the side if his marriage isn't up to his standards, or a new team if he doesn't like the one he's on. He thought he could tell Thompson what to do and he found out Ted tells him what to do. Ted put him squarely in his place on Family night when he turned Favre away at the lockerroom door after 4 months of Brett's childish games. Its' not because Ted wants to show Brett who's smarter, better or more important. It's because Brett was a whiny bratt who stepped out of line and Ted had no choice but to keep things giong in the right direction, a direction that because of Favre didn't include Favre.


To summarize in one word:

THANKSTED

[Cheesehead Craig]

^^^^^THAT ended for many of you when he joined another team. Jen Sterger deal was just icing on the cake...a gift with perfect timing. If Favre was still a Packer and playing great football this board would have been full of posts about what a whore and gold digger she is. Sorry but I don't doubt that one bit.

He never would have been with Jen as she was the sideline reporter with the Jets, therefore Favre would have had no reason to sext her.

I ain't saying she's a gold digger...

[Scott Campbell]

^^^^^THAT ended for many of you when he joined another team. Jen Sterger deal was just icing on the cake...a gift with perfect timing. If Favre was still a Packer and playing great football this board would have been full of posts about what a whore and gold digger she is. Sorry but I don't doubt that one bit.

..........because people here were so quick to blame Ahman Green's wife for needing a good beating.

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I felt the same way. I even rooted for the jets that year. the minny move was completely different.

Just thought of that... I rooted for them too. And wanted Brett to play well.

The whole stick-it-to-Ted thing is what put it over the top for me.

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There were a group of posters here who spent 95% of their time discussing Favre and only 5% the Packers.

God I hated that time here. Was looking back and reading some of my posts and I'm not sure I could have been any more of an asshole. Glad things have calmed down.

[Scott Campbell]

God I hated that time here. Was looking back and reading some of my posts and I'm not sure I could have been any more of an asshole. Glad things have calmed down.

I think you may find my posts to be of some comfort.

[mission]

I think you may find my posts to be of some comfort.

I think your posts only served as motivation. You've always set the bar around here.

[get louder at lambeau]

I think your posts only served as motivation. You've always set the bar around here.

I think we need to have a PackerRats.com Asshole-Off. Biggest asshole wins. And no, Brent can't win, unless he's secretly a forum member.

[Travbrew]

I think we need to have a PackerRats.com Asshole-Off. Biggest asshole wins. And no, Brent can't win, unless he's secretly a forum member.

I think he was. Tank/APB?

[Fritz]

Tank. Jaysus.

THANKSTED!

I think Ted helped Tank go into permanent hibernation.

[ThunderDan]

Tank. Jaysus.

THANKSTED!

I think Ted helped Tank go into permanent hibernation.

I think Tank and APB probably committed suicide after the Packers won the Super Bowl. They had so much invested in TT failing that the SB had to completely unhinge them (as if they needed more of a push).

[Pugger]

Brett was going to be remembered as a good, honest, genuine guy who was great at football. Now he'll be remembered as a wife cheating, dishonest, phony and a dirty creeper who was great at football.

The football stays the same. Believe it or not, there is more to the people we cheer for than what they do on the field. Brett will be remembered as much for what he did off of it. Jen Sterger, the massage therapists, dragging his team through bizarre, dishonest BS to get what he wanted only to get what he didn't want, and his old team winning the SB as soon as he left town.

If you believe in justice, he's being remembered for who he is. If you believe in Favre, he should be remembered for what he wants you to remember him for. Do we stand by our virtues or our idol? where does our allegiance lie? That's the question.

My allegiance has always been with the Green Bay Packers. No one player/person is above the franchise. Even Curly Lambeau found that out all those years ago.

Packer fans won't forget all Favre did on the football field. His play - and others like Wolf, Reggie, Holmgren and Harlan - helped bring us out of the Dark Ages (1969-1989). But a lot of us won't forget how he wormed his way out of town in 2008 while throwing the franchise that made him a household name and multi-millionaire under the bus and soiled his legacy by sending creepy pix and messages to women young enough to be his daughters!