Favre's streak ends at 297· Page 4

4PackGirl
Registered

14 years ago

he is done. i'll be shocked if he takes another snap this season. he is actively convincing himself that his legacy remains intact, he doesn't need to prove anything else, & that he'll be talked about in a positive way for years to come.

Greg C.
Registered Topic Starter

14 years ago

#32

I will never understand the hushed tones of reverential nostalgia and the starry eyes with which people speak of Brett Favre, but if it brings meaning to their lives, more power to them, I guess.

I will say that the end of the streak brought me no pleasure either. It's just so tattered and outworn I want it to go away. Watching professional football will be a much more enjoyable experience when the spastic reflex of every commentator's tongue is not to reach for the word "BrettFavre" every time they're in need of a moment's filler.

"Nonstopdrivel" wrote:

Yeah, toward the end Brett Favre got to be like a movie that one has watched too many times. I have to give him his due for having a great season in 2009, but still, when you put that season together with 2008 and 2010, I think the comeback did his reputation more harm than good. Mostly he just wanted to keep playing because he doesn't know what to do with himself if he's not playing.

As I've said before, I think he's going to have a very hard time adjusting to retirement. He will probably make his wife miserable--if nothing else, just because she will have to watch him be miserable.

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Zero2Cool
Elite Member

14 years ago

#33

"4PackGirl" wrote:

over the years have you noticed him say his legacy is intact, without anyone even mentioning anything remotely close to it?

Cheesey
Preferred Member

14 years ago

#34

I said for the last 2 years, he should quit while he still has "it" and his health.
He didn't listen.
Now he looks old, and washed up. Just as i figured he would go out.
A sad ending, if you ask me.

DakotaT
Select Member

14 years ago

#35

I said for the last 2 years, he should quit while he still has "it" and his health.
He didn't listen.
Now he looks old, and washed up. Just as i figured he would go out.
A sad ending, if you ask me.

"Cheesey" wrote:

Very Johnny Unitaslike.

At least he set the Vikings back a few years. Thanks Brett.

4PackGirl
Registered

14 years ago

#36

"Zero2Cool" wrote:

over the years have you noticed him say his legacy is intact, without anyone even mentioning anything remotely close to it?

"4PackGirl" wrote:

yes i have. convincing himself of this has been ongoing. pretty sad.

Dexter_Sinister
Registered

14 years ago

#37

It was really over before the year started. They have just been dragging the corpse of his career along for the 300. It would have been even sadder had he made it. Knowing the last 16 game were a total a sham.

A 69 rating on that last year makes it a year too long. You can't look at that and say he went out on top. That is one step above going out in a body bag.

I want to go out like my Grandpa did. Peacefully in his sleep.
Not screaming in terror like his passengers.

jdlax
Member

14 years ago

#38

I said for the last 2 years, he should quit while he still has "it" and his health.
He didn't listen.
Now he looks old, and washed up. Just as i figured he would go out.
A sad ending, if you ask me.

"Cheesey" wrote:

So, if I read your post correctly, you were saying that he should quit before he had one of, if not the best, statistical seasons of his career? If he had the same "luck" with injuries not happening and some semblance of an offensive line performance this year, who's to say it wouldn't have been the best 2 years of his statistical career?

I dunno, just seems a little odd you'd lump an MVP type year in with one where he was beaten like a rented mule to show that you "called it".

Merry Christmas to you and yours though!

Cheesey
Preferred Member

14 years ago

#39

Yup jdlax!
That's EXACTLY what i said.
What exactly did he gain by sticking around too long? Does he have a 2nd Super Bowl ring? Maybe if he did, i'd say you are right.
So he had one good year. Now that he's been beaten half to death, may suffer injuries that last for the rest of his life, i bet even HE wishes now he would have quit.
The thing is, knowing when to walk away. He chose not to, and now goes out looking like a beat up old man.
As was sated, very much like Johnny Unitas. You are probably too young to remember that. It's sad watching a once great athelete looking horrible.
Bart Starr did the same thing.
So.....i'm wrong for what i said, and for pointing out that it's ended just as i feared it would? Does that make me wrong, for pointing that out?
Merry Christmas to you too, my friend!

jdlax
Member

14 years ago

#40

I guess alls I'm saying here is that it just seems strange to me that you would include last year as one that he should not have played. If not for a mistake that he would have made at 20, 30, or 40 years old, he would have been "the guy" putting the Vikings in the Super Bowl. This year, it's pretty obvious with a little hindsight that playing wasn't the best of ideas, but last year? He had a better season than the donkey they slapped the MVP hat on! 🙂

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