He’s back in the news thanks to ESPN. Brett Favre to play for the Seattle Seahawks? Makes sense! Think of the possibilities, Norm!
Imagine a world where Matt Hasslebeck isn’t the key, Charlie Whitehurst isn’t ready yet and J.P. Losman (who is very Brett Favre-esk) remembers that he is J.P. Losman?
Insert Brett Favre. And there goes 15 minutes of my life I’ll never get back.
Truth is, it’s so crazy it might happen.
If someone wrote you a book about him, you wouldn’t publish it. If someone gave you a script, you wouldn’t make the movie. Even if Johnny Depp was on board to star in it.
And if someone told you it as a joke, you would laugh. But you wouldn’t repeat it.
Brett Favre the iconic football player lives in the shadows of Brett Favre the story. It’s sad really. The man who collected over 400 touchdowns and threw for more yards than fans in Lambeau Field on any given Sunday is now the scourge of off-season, the punchline to every retirement announcement.
It’s sad really and it’s not entirely his fault.
Sure, the die-hard Green Bay Packers fans remember him for his great nights (Dec. 23, 2002), his bad nights (Sept 10, 2006) and his wild nights (Jan. 20, 2002). But the rest of the league remembers Favre as a joke.
It was 2002 – in a a sit down with Peter King from Sports Illustrated – when it all began.
He told King: “I miss home.”
Since that point, it hasn’t stopped. Rachel Nichols, Chris Mortensen, John Clayton. It’s absurd.
Had the media left him alone, the man would be remember for what he really was: a man of threes. Three MVPs, three hundred-and-two career games and three sets of three-consecutive Pro Bowl seasons.
And look at that, three of his very own beat reporters.
Oh, and he retired three times, too. Too bad he wore No. 4.
Truth be told, his love for himself and his alleged need to send pictures via text to a certain somebody didn’t help. But I feel for the man. He is a legend on the field but because of the media (along with his own myopia and text messages) his life off the field is what people remember.
Except maybe Mike Holmgren, he remembers Favre for three things: touchdowns, wins and MVP awards.
Where is Holmgren at these days? Cleveland? Well, they are miles ahead of Seattle’s quarterback issues… right?
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