Remembering Brett Favre
I remember Brett Favre.
Just like my dad remembers Joe Montana or Terry Bradshaw. Or like your grandfather remembers Bart Starr, Johnny Unitas or Joe Namath.
It is the same way we will remember Peyton Manning and Tom Brady. Jerry Rice, Barry Sanders and LaDainian Tomlinson. And Brett Favre.
These players grew up with us. We watched their careers bud, grow and blossom over the course of hundreds of weekends. We found entertainment in their talents and skills, bragged about their triumphs with our peers and even toiled with them in sorrow upon defeats.
Favre is a legend of my generation. He is the quarterback of the Green Bay Packers during our most impressionable years as NFL fans. Favre rose to glory in the mid-1990s, the same time most of us entered junior high or high school. The time when our fanhood reached new heights as we began to follow the NFL religiously. We even started to dabble in fantasy football by the mid- to late-1990s, which made Favre a fantasy god as this was the statistical peak of his career.
Our fathers remember Montana and Bradshaw the same way we will remember Favre. They can relive the great memories and the super triumphs these fantastic players enjoyed during the course of their careers. We did get to enjoy some of Montana’s success in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but we came in on the back-end of his career. While we remember some of the Montana stories, we missed the first half or more of the novel.
We were there from page one of Favre’s 17-year saga. His career saw its share of ups and downs. From substance abuse to Super Bowl champion and everything in between, we will remember it all.
We will remember the day he threw for 399 yards and four touchdowns against Oakland on Monday Night Football, which would be an above-average outing for Favre on most days. But he lost his father the day before.
We will remember the jubilation and glee on his face after winning the Super Bowl in New Orleans against the New England Patriots.
We will remember the 2007 season which saw him break all kinds of career records, including most touchdown passes, most completions, most passing yards and most interceptions.
We will remember the 275 consecutive game streak, rivaling or even surpassing the accomplishment of baseball’s Cal Ripken, Jr.
And, sadly, we will remember that Favre’s last pass — an interception — led to his team’s defeat just one game shy of the Super Bowl.
But most of all, we will remember Brett Favre.
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Brett Favre ended his career like he started it, with a flurry. Full of emotion, full of character and full of that gunslinging attitude that made him our favorite QB. He probably isn’t the best and he probably isn’t the smartest, but he played his heart out and never gave up for 253 or so straight regular season games and that we will never forget.
Brett Favre’s personality will endure long than some of the other QBs who may end up with better stats (Peyton) because he’s got that something everybody loves. The fact that I stopped an listened to more than 10 minutes of Favre’s retirement speech puts him with the likes of MJ and Montana in my book. More than the game, more than the lights, an icon and an idol.
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