Packer Fans and Favre

[LastingsMilledge85]

As a Packer fan, I am so disappointed in what Favre has become since the Pack traded him to the Jets last year. Ever since then, he has felt like he needs to get revenge on the Pack because they wanted to move on because he "retired." I feel so bad saying that despite what he has done for the Pack, I have lost all respect for him. I am actually glad he signed with the Vikings because I think it only hurts them, I would take Jackson or Rosenfels over him any day, we all saw what he and the New York Bretts did last year. Packer fans, your thoughts.

[Tay1038]

Not coming from a Packer fan - but why in the heck would you take T-Jack and Sage over Farve? No comparison whats so ever. Your nuts man!

[LastingsMilledge85]

Jackson took his team to the playoffs last year, what did Favre do for the Bretts?

[Tay1038]

Actually it was Gus that did it dude, not T-Jack

[gingi79]

My brother has been a Pack fan but more importantly a Brett fan for many a moon. He doesn't care about football the way average Pack fans do, so his opinions may upset the rest of Packer Nation. Here is what he said verbatim:

"I don't care if he plays for the Vikings this year, the Lions next year and the Bears the year after. I'm just glad I get to watch Brett Favre play football again."


All I can say is that Dan Marino turned down the very same Vikings and retired. Steve Young felt his body (mostly his head) couldn't take it anymore and retired a 49er. Troy Aikman had the same issue, knew when to retire a Cowboy. I understand that we want our heroes to remain on our team and then retire with us. But somehow, I don't remember hearing all the negativity about:

Joe Montana going to the Chiefs
Jerry Rice going to the Raiders, the Seahawks or even the Broncos
Emmitt Smith going to the Cardinals
Joe Namath going to the Rams

My favorite baseball player is now playing for my least favorite team (second player to have to deal with this too) I root for the guy to bat 1.000, hit 75 home runs and 200 rbi. And then have his team lose every game. I find some satisfaction in looking at it that way. Hope it helps seeing Mr. Yellow and Green in Purple this season.

[David]

The Packers are in better position with a 25 year old Aaron Rogers than a 40 year old Brett Favre. Aaron was the better quarterback last year, and odds are he'll be the better quarterback three years from now.

[BorchertField]

My brother has been a Pack fan but more importantly a Brett fan for many a moon. He doesn't care about football the way average Pack fans do, so his opinions may upset the rest of Packer Nation. Here is what he said verbatim:

"I don't care if he plays for the Vikings this year, the Lions next year and the Bears the year after. I'm just glad I get to watch Brett Favre play football again."

Your brother likes watching ten games of pretty good football followed by six games of flat-out awful football?

Takes all kinds, I guess.

[princip]

Well, I'm no Favre/NFC North expert, yet, the so called experts are saying it will work out better for Favre with the Vikings because it's a very similar style offense that he had in Green Bay. So, basically he's good to go I just love the fact that it adds to an already exciting upcoming season.

Franco, you will always be a Seahawk to me.

[David]

The argument that a team's record is based solely on the quarterback is silly on it's face. If that was case, the Vikings might as well be made up of Brett Favre and the Minnetonka Cub Scouts. Save the team a lot of money.

[David]

I should add that I agree the Jets improved a lot last year under Favre and, simply because they missed the playoffs by one game, the press popularly and wrongly labels the season a failure. How going from 4-12 to 9-7 is classified as failure I don't know, but many in the press classify it as that.