1. Rodgers has turned out to be a very solid QB, he was in a contract year when favre tried to comeback, and I highly doubt he would have signed again with the team had we let favre return. While it turns out Favre still had at least a couple years left, it sure didn’t seem that way when a late 30’s qb who’d been mulling retirement for years wanted to make a comeback.
but that’s not why I hate Favre.
2. He came back and played for the Vikings this year, in a move born purely from spite to beat the packers. That is definitely a sin in my eyes. Irregardless of how biased that may seem, to come back to your teams biggest rival purely for the sake of sticking it to your old team, your old coach, your old gm. That’s just morally wrong.

Let Favre have his day, h deserves it. I won’t deny he did great things for us. But imagine if archie had gone to a major rival, and said along the way that he was doing it simply to spite your team.
How would you feel then?

There’s been plenty said about the coaching and front office decisions around Wi.
for years we’ve been dealing with the Favre’s retiring thing and i guess it just got old for the packers organization. they were being foward looking in drafting Rodgers and unfortunately didnt draft an O line to protect him better. but he still has better #’s than favre in his first 2 seasons
I dont hate Favre I HATE THE VIKINGS! anyone in purple must go down!
any self respecting Packer fan would probably say the same thing.

Yes, he’s playing very well, and good for him. He lost a lot of my respect after expecting that the Packers would be waiting with open arms in June/July, even after declaring he was done in March and again before the April draft. I don’t like the way he played the fans off the team, as though we would choose sides and sway Ted Thompson one way or another. I don’t think the team was perfect, either, but his “real Packer fans understand” comments left a bad taste in my mouth. His decision to play on the Vikings and diss the 1996 Packers doesn’t help, either.

Hindsight being 20/20, I don’t think Favre puts up the same MVP-like numbers behind the Packers 2009 offensive line, and I do think that Rodgers would be lighting up the league on another team, had we taken Favre back last year. Rodgers is an excellent QB and the leader of our team for the foreseeable future, and I think both GBP and MN are better off for Favre having moved on.

His being a Viking is inexcusable, but I still like Darren Sharper, so that’s not the only thing. I’ll bury the hatchet when/if he retires as a Packer and goes to Canton, but his off-the-field actions, along with the retirement waffling since 2005, have soured me on him as a person.

This has been beaten to death more times than you can possibly imagine. If all you want is our point of view then you can find it there.

There is a lot that has been & is still being said about this amongst WI residents & Packer fans. Only thing is, like others have pointed out, since it all happened over a year ago, most of it has been beaten to death.

Another reason to go back & read stuff from archives, as verno329 suggests, is because you will get a more representative “sample” than you will reading anything new posted to this fanpost. Right now, at this point, most if not all the fans who think like you have been chased away from sites like this. So you don’t get a real feel for what’s really going on in Wisconsin, in daily “conversation at the water cooler.” Believe it or not, the real “schism” this year & last is in Wisconsin, not Minnesota.

Some people have that feeling that when TT was hired in 2005, he sought to get rid of Favre all along, especially after drafting Aaron Rodgers. That’s not true. We were lucky to get Rodgers, and couldn’t pass up. TT certainly didn’t trade Favre after his disastrous 29 interception season or his mediocre 2006 season. Favre chose to retire in March of 08’. It came as a shock to all of us, most couldn’t believe it. For the next 4 weeks, we still kept calling Favre to make sure he was positive he was staying retired. If we sought to get rid of him all along, why did we keep calling him? He kept insisting he was done, so shortly before the draft, we gave the keys to Rodgers, who was in his contract year. Suddenly, before training camp, Favre wants in again. Well, it was a choice: Favre for a year or 2 or Rodgers for a decade? You make the decision. The team already moved forward. So we traded Favre. I was not bitter over that. I simply said, “Well, he wants to play, so let him play. It just can’t happen in Green Bay.”

So Favre plays in NY for the 08’ season, then retires afterward. Again, we all think he’s done. He kept insisting he’s retired to Head Coach Rex Ryan, so the Jets gave up. Then, again, shortly before training camp, out of all 32 teams, he chooses the Minnesota Vikings, a huge rival of ours. He wasn’t traded there, he chose to go there. That was a huge slap in our faces and the feeling towards Favre became bitter.

Your love for Archie Manning cannot possibly be compared to what our love for Brett Favre was. Favre took our terrible franchise of the 80s and helped turned it into a winning organization. He was also very active in the local community and charities. He was not a stranger in public and was viewed as a hero. He was also in Green Bay for 16 beloved seasons, a very long time.

Long story short, our feelings for Favre is virtually the same for a couple getting divorced. A lot of years of love all flushed down the drain. Hi comments on us true fans accepting it and him crowning the 09’ Vikings as the best team he was ever on definately just made things a LOT worse. It will take several years after he retires for him to be loved here again. We are all very thankful for what he did in the past, but are bitter towards his decisions and remarks as of lately.

No question here

I don’t think that’s a fair comparison. There just is no great comparison. Roger Clemens screwing over the Red Sox, go read Bill Simmons’s archives about that saga, is the closest thing I can come up to. I read a Cowboy fan over at Blogging The Boys compare it to a hypothetical: it would be like Aikman coming out of retirement earlier this decade to play for the Eagles. Walking away from the team (retiring) is the key. He didn’t show a sincere interest in returning to play until training camp was about to start, and he’s done it in the past two seasons. It will be interesting to see the reaction in Minnesota next year when he waffles all offseason while every other player on their roster is busting their butt all spring and summer. And you could see how thrilled he was to stick it to his old team as he was beating them in Lambeau. You cannot convince Favre that there is no I in team.

At the same time, it’s great to see Favre doing so well with the Vikings. To play like he is playing at age 40 is just incredible. I knew he could keep playing like this, and that’s why I was so disappointed when he retired after his great 2007 season. He would have won an MVP in 2007 if it wasn’t for Brady’s remarkable 50+ TD season. That said, I wish the Vikings would lose out the rest of the season (I know it’s not going to happen, it’s just a wish), Favre starts throwing about 3 INTs/game, and the Packers can come from behind and win the division. We’re all Packer fans and in the end it’s about coming in ahead of the Vikings in the standings.

Having to pick between two good quarterbacks is a good problem to have. Drafting Rogers when they did probably started this domino effect, but who knew that Favre would play as long as he has. And who knew that he would get hot at the end of his career like he has. The Packers are better off with Rogers and Favre is better off with the Vikings. And when he retires for good, most people will remember him as a Packer, and a great one.