Romo Out 4 Weeks

[mraynrand]

while I support favre for being a tough sob and am not a hater.....I would point out he played for shit when that thumb was broken.

That's not true. Not even close to true. He played very well, including the first game after breaking the thumb, a win at Minnesota. The Packers were 7-2 after the break, including huge wins over San Diego on the road and the MNF win over Oakland after Irv died. The thumb was a bit of a problem in a MNF game loss to Philly in the rain. But Ahman Green fumbling was much worse.

Favre played extremely well in three halves of post season play, and then struggled in the second half of the 4th and 26 loss to Philly.

[mraynrand]

My favorite memory...a few years back...Shermy era....Favre got knocked silly, just before thehalf. Left for one play. Came back in and apparenty Shermy didn't even know it....and Favre threw a t.d. pass.

Tough. I didn't like how he handled this retirement/nonretirement stuff, but the guy is tough. Ya gotta like that.

I was at that game. he was just going nuts on the sideline. They kinda had to restrain him from going back out on the field later in that game. He had no idea where he was.

[SnakeLH2006]

Too bad for Romo...seems like a good guy though. Good for us though!

[Patler]

while I support favre for being a tough sob and am not a hater.....I would point out he played for shit when that thumb was broken.

You do know he led the NFL with 32 TD passes that season right?

I think people confuse the year he broke his thumb, which was just a hairline fracture, and detected only because it swelled so they x-rayed it, with the year he damaged ligaments in his thumb. They said the fracture was painful, but didn't affect his gripping strength or ability to throw after adapting to the tape/splint they used for protection. Several years earlier ('99 I think) he damaged ligaments in his thumb, which did affect his grip and lead to one of his poorer seasons. Lots of yards, but more INTs than TDs, so a low QB rating.

[Fosco33]

while I support favre for being a tough sob and am not a hater.....I would point out he played for shit when that thumb was broken.

You do know he led the NFL with 32 TD passes that season right?

I think people confuse the year he broke his thumb, which was just a hairline fracture, and detected only because it swelled so they x-rayed it, with the year he damaged ligaments in his thumb. They said the fracture was painful, but didn't affect his gripping strength or ability to throw after adapting to the tape/splint they used for protection. Several years earlier ('99 I think) he damaged ligaments in his thumb, which did affect his grip and lead to one of his poorer seasons. Lots of yards, but more INTs than TDs, so a low QB rating.

Agreed - see my above post (I was at the Camp Randall game when he hurt his thumb in '99).

http://www.packers.com/news/stories/2003/10/21/2/

"Sometimes a sprain, strains, whatever, can actually be worse than broken bones," Favre said. "Is this one of those cases? I don't know. I feel like this is not as bad (as '99). It's only two days removed from this game and I don't feel it's as bad as that year, even though it wasn't broken then."

The location of the injury plays into Favre's confidence.

While the thumb sprain in '99 was near the base of his thumb, this injury is above the top knuckle, near the base of the thumbnail. In Favre's thinking, that leaves him without a fingertip, rather than an entire finger.

"At least here I have half a thumb," Favre said. "Then, I had no thumb."

Although he passed for 4,091 yards that season, looking back, Favre admitted Tuesday that he probably should have sat out with his injury in 1999. Had he done so, his consecutive starts streak would not be quite as illustrious as it is today.