Comments on: Brett Favre: The Man, The Myth, The Man-Crush http://theoddsandsods.com/2008/03/05/brett-favre-the-man-the-myth-the-man-crush/ Refined Ruminations on the World of Sport, Or Something Like That Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:11:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: tyduffy http://theoddsandsods.com/2008/03/05/brett-favre-the-man-the-myth-the-man-crush/#comment-3264 tyduffy Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:17:43 +0000 http://oddsandsods.wordpress.com/?p=1098#comment-3264 I agree that he was a great player and fun to watch, but I don't think he warrants his own commemorative issue from SI. Living in the midwest, I got to see a whole lot of him. He had great, special moments, but he also had some pretty lousy ones. I've been cognizant of football for Brett's whole career. Among his contemporaries, Montana was better, Elway was better, Manning was better, and Brady was better. That would put him Top Five over the course of his career. I think you can make a case for Marino being up there as well. I also think that Steve Young was better during his heyday, but over the course of his career you have to give the advantage to Favre. You can also make a case for Aikman being up there as well, Favre never won in Dallas. It is only as he has come to the end of his career that he has become some sort of sports demi-god. I agree that he was a great player and fun to watch, but I don’t think he warrants his own commemorative issue from SI.

Living in the midwest, I got to see a whole lot of him. He had great, special moments, but he also had some pretty lousy ones.

I’ve been cognizant of football for Brett’s whole career. Among his contemporaries, Montana was better, Elway was better, Manning was better, and Brady was better. That would put him Top Five over the course of his career. I think you can make a case for Marino being up there as well. I also think that Steve Young was better during his heyday, but over the course of his career you have to give the advantage to Favre. You can also make a case for Aikman being up there as well, Favre never won in Dallas.

It is only as he has come to the end of his career that he has become some sort of sports demi-god.

]]> By: Kartik http://theoddsandsods.com/2008/03/05/brett-favre-the-man-the-myth-the-man-crush/#comment-3262 Kartik Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:06:20 +0000 http://oddsandsods.wordpress.com/?p=1098#comment-3262 Got to disagree with you here big time. Brett Favre was a throwback to a time for (sort of) old timers/traditionalists like me when the game was purer and actually worth watching. This past year I didn't watch the NFL except when Favre was playing. I grew up with the NFL attending my first game at age 5 in 1979 and spending 8 sundays a year every year in a stadium from 1981 thru 1991, and several times a year after I left for college and came home for a weekend. In 1997 I attended my last NFL game. The sport isn't the same purer, exicitng game it used to be. Today's NFL is a corporate game than shuns non conformists and is full of prima donas. I will miss him and know others will as well. Got to disagree with you here big time. Brett Favre was a throwback to a time for (sort of) old timers/traditionalists like me when the game was purer and actually worth watching. This past year I didn’t watch the NFL except when Favre was playing. I grew up with the NFL attending my first game at age 5 in 1979 and spending 8 sundays a year every year in a stadium from 1981 thru 1991, and several times a year after I left for college and came home for a weekend. In 1997 I attended my last NFL game. The sport isn’t the same purer, exicitng game it used to be. Today’s NFL is a corporate game than shuns non conformists and is full of prima donas. I will miss him and know others will as well.

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