Jet Favre - Brett's evil twin
by pulpster on Aug 19, 2009 1:45 PM CDT
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PrintMy wife is from Green Bay and even though my sons were born and raised in Virginia, they grew up as Packer fans. My middle son, who is now sixteen, didn't know any other quarterback besides Brett Favre and he was a serious fan. There were Brett Favre posters and bobble heads and four different colors of jerseys. At six foot two and two hundred and twenty pounds, it's hard now to remember him wearing his Brett Favre 'one-sy' pajamas, but he did. There were Brett Favre jig-saw puzzles and magazine covers and...football cards.
From about the age of four or five, Brett Favre football cards was all he wanted for his birthday and Christmas presents. His mom scoured ebay. His grandparents and aunts up in Wisconsin searched the card shops and, by the time he was fourteen or so, he had a notebook with 1200 different Brett Favre football cards. Now, this doesn't count doubles or multiple cards...there are six cards on each side of a plastic sleeve...twelve per page...and his notebook was a hundred pages deep...about two inches thick.
This notebook was a major source of entertainment over the years. He would take all of the cards out and arrange them in chronological order. He would separate the 'passing' cards from the 'running' cards, etc. Showing the notebook to his friends was his pride and joy.
On the day that Brett announced that he was going to play for the Jets, my son threw the notebook in the trash. My wife, who was in total denial and swore that it wasn't 'Brett' who was disloyal to the packers, but his evil twin 'Jet Favre', went out that night and saved the notebook from the trash can. She claimed that it would be worth a fortune someday and hid it up in the attic.
A few months ago, when Brett was first playing with the idea of going with the Vikings, my wife went up to the attic and threw the notebook into the trash herself. Without telling her, I saved it from the trash myself before the garbage men came the next morning. I thought that both she and my son would thank me some day.
Last night, I threw it out.
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Brett "Benedict" Favre
The Vikings are going to bust. Trust me, they will not win the division, and this move will backfire on them at least in the wins department.
same record different result
the vikings should at least go 10-6 again but this time they will not win the division
silly boys
Can’t you all add? You comment on football but don’t know how it works? You harbor hate and need counseling. Brett is great, he will kick your cheese head asses.
signed former packer fan that can no longer associate with this much stupidity in the fan base. #4 forever wherever
How's it taste THOMPSON YOU MORON
Former Packer fan?
If you choose the player over the team, then you truely are a silly boy
Ted will have the last laugh
He already has
We got rid of Favre, and Rodgers put up identical numbers to Favre’s in 07’. But the thing is Rodgers is going to improve, and could very well end up being just as good as Favre was, if not better.
by packallday555 on Aug 24, 2009 3:19 PM CDT up reply actions
dont know how football works?
Do you? I believe it works with 11 men on the field not just one. One man may be your fav player but that one man can not make up a team.. Get over Favre he was great in his prime now he is average at best. I LOVED Favre but i LOVE the Packers!
Hey pal, you can root for whomever you want.
But when Favre retires, do us all a favor. Pick another team, another player and follow them.
The thing that chaps my ass the most is that all of these so-called Packer fans who are instead rooting for whomever Favre plays for will come creeping back, quiet as a mouse, when Favre is finally done.
Unless they’ve got any sense of self respect.
Which of course, they don’t.
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Aug 21, 2009 9:34 PM CDT up reply actions
AMEN!
To those of you that showed your true colors, please do us all a favor and don’t come back. Don’t tell us the error in your ways, don’t tell us you really loved the Packers that whole time but were in denial, just pick another team and stick with them. People who switch teams show they have no loyalty and we don’t want you around these parts. The good news is that there are a lot of fans JUST LIKE YOU in Minnesota so I think you’ve found your home!!
The Notebook
Dude
Favre may have become a douche bag but that is no reason for you not to profit from it
An appropriate discussion from a movie...
Sonny- You must be pretty upset after the Yankees lost.
Calogero- Bill Mazeroski, I hate him. He made Mickey Mantle cry. The papers said the Mick cried.
Sonny- Mickey Mantle? That’s what you’re upset about?
Mantle makes $ a year. How much does your father make?
Calogero- I don’t know.
Sonny- You don’t know?
If your dad needs money, go ask Mickey Mantle. See what happens. Mickey Mantle don’t care about you. Why care about him?
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Older Calogero as Narrator- From that day on, I never felt the same about the Yankees.
From “A Bronx Tale”
Substitute “Brett Favre” for “Mickey Mantle,” replace “Bill Mazeroski” with “Ted Thompson,” change the team name… and the dialogue could be from the movie “An Ashwaubenon Tale.”
All kidding aside, I guess that it is the nature of heroes that they, not being perfect, often eventually let us down. My tarnished hero was James Lofton growing up.
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