Living in Kenosha, WI, which is about as far southeast you can go in the state before you run into Illinois, means that it is perfectly okay to be either a Chicago Cubs fan OR a Milwaukee Brewers fan. In baseball, in southeast WI, there's no such thing as state loyalty. So, for me and most of my family we say "GO CUBS GO!". That said, however, it is not the same for the sport of football. It is not acceptable, for any reason, to be a Chicago Bears fan. If you breathe Wisconsin air, you are a Packer fan and god help anyone who cheers otherwise. And worse yet - any poor soul who says they like the Vikings...well, they should just run like hell until they are safely out of the state.
Which brings me to the point of this blog entry. Today was the start of Packer's training camp. We all waited to see if 'ol #4 was going to actually show up. He didn't. The debate of what to do with Brett Favre is hot and heavy here in Cheeseland. Some say "Let him come back!!" and other's say "Let him go!!!" and still others say "Let him come back but bench him!!" (as if that would ever happen...) I'm pretty jaded on Favre. You see, he's done this to us before. And, frankly, maybe it's just time to move on, give Rodgers the shot, and see what happens.
I used to think Favre was one of the last players who truly played, first and foremost, for the love of the game. But if that was the case, he could have stepped up and said "I just want to play. I'll sit the bench. Use me if you can. I just love the game, the Pack and Greenbay." Honestly, if he had done that, there's no way that he wouldn't be playing this year. We Cheeseheads would have given a collective "Ahhhh!!!" and he would have started and adios Rodgers. But that would be a perfect world and since this isn't, what he did was whine, complain, cry, taint his rep, and the reps of the Pack, and Greenbay. Yes, it must have been awfully "hard" on old Brett to show up in Greenbay to work and have all those tens of thousands of fans screaming his name and backing his every move with the kind of adulation generally saved for gods. Rough gig. Sorry we couldn't have made him feel more welcome. What a putz!
So, move on Mr. F! Greenbay should trade him, let him go be a Viking or a Patriot or whatever the hell else he might want to be. Let's get Rodgers in good shape and the team ready for the fray and, please, for the sake of the game, let's just move on.
4 comments:
see, I have a different view of what happens to Brett. I told my son months ago that what happens to him is that at the end of the season, this one in particular is that he's weary and just wants to go home to rest. So he does that, but then he gets down to Hattiesburg and after a few months, days or perhaps hours after arriving home he realizes just what retirement will be like around all his "friends and relatives" and he starts begging to go back to green bay. yep that's why I stay in Jackson...all my relatives are from Collins, a town just north of Hattiesburg, and believe me I can relate. I would go screaming back to Green Bay within 2 seconds of being around my relatives :) I do agree it's time to s**t or get off the pot.
I feel for the guy, I really do but, seriously, if he "retires" once and changes his mind - that I can understand. But twice? That just seems like someone who had a hissy baby fit after losing the Superbowl, so he "retires" and we all say "NO!!!" and now he wants back in! Time to move on!
Btw - if you've ever lived through a winter in Greenbay, you might change your mind about that whole "screaming back" there to get away from your relatives! Haha! It's freakin' cold up there! Brrrrrr....
i 100% agree, i actually think it would be funny if he continued to do this for another 10 years
Yeah, but you're a hockey fan...so what do you know!? Ha!
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