Please Stay Away, Brett
This is New England. Home of the World Champion Boston Red Sox, the 17-time NBA Champion Boston Celtics, and one other successful sports franchise. Too bad I hate them with every fiber of my being. Of course, I’m referring to the New England Patriots. I am not a Patriots fan by any stretch of the imagination. Instead, I’m a cheesehead. I love the Green Bay Packers, which makes what I’m about to say very weird. I hope Brett Favre stays retired. It’s time to hang them up, Brett.
Don’t get me wrong. Brett favre is probably my favorite football player of all time, and he is probably a top-10 quarterback of all time. But this retire, unretired game has got to stop. He’s held this franchise hostage in the offseason for the better part of four seasons now. It’s been the lead story on ESPN all week and I just don’t understand why. He wasn’t a good enough quarterback to warrant this attention. As good as he was in his prime, he’s probably been the most overrated player in the NFL the last few years.
And what about Aaron Rodgers? The guy gets drafted late in the first round, much later than expected, and now has to endure another whole sequence of the Brett Favre game. The guy deserves a shot to prove what he can do, and this is the year to start. I don’t care if that brings the Packers back to the pack (no pun intended) in the NFC North…it just needs to happen.
So Brett, do me a favor. Stay home in Mississippi, film your Wrangler commercials, and stop texting the Packers GM that you want to come back for another year. You’re done, something you even admitted yourself not two months ago. Let someone else have a shot. You’re in the Hall in 2013, you’ve won a Super Bowl, and you have nothing left to prove. It seems everyone has come to that realization…except for yourself.
