Favritis

Favritis- The disease of being completely whipped by Brett Favre with no hope of winning any big games

Like the call of the Siren his allure can be hypnotizing, and right now the Minnesota Vikings have it worse than my sister has Bieber-fever.

Let me just throw out a few facts that you might have not heard before.

Brett was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons with the 33^rd overall pick. In his rookie season, he played in 2 games, he dropped back 5 times. He got sacked once and got rid of the ball the other 4 times. Unfortunately 2 of them were to the other team. If that’s not a sign I don’t know what is.

Favre and the Packers won the Super Bowl in 1996. Yep, that’s 14 years ago. I wasn’t even 7 at the time. And he has been quoted as saying he has played with “A lot” of concussions; he doesn’t even know the exact number of concussions he has had let alone does he know how to win the big one. Do you think somedays he thinks his Super Bowl ring is his wedding band, cause I wouldn’t doubt it.

Brett Favre and Mike Holmgren both came to the leading positions for the Packers in 1992. And Coach Holmgren is a genius in his own right. He has only coached for 2 teams, and he has only been coaching for 18 years and still he is considered one of the best coaches of his era. So it can be easy to say that Mike Holmgren helped create this Favre illusion.

And don’t give me the ‘he’s the toughest guy in the league’ spiel.

He has played with a broken thumb, bum knees, back most grandpas would kill for, and an emotional state of havic. Okay, so he plays through some of the toughest injuries, but if the lack of abilities on a certain day will hurt the team; wouldn’t you take yourself out of the game? Let the backup run the team, make the safe throws and give you some rest and possibly a win for the team. He would never do this. As much as he says that he doesn’t think about the consecutive game streak we can all see right through that. And that’s just the beginning of him being selfish.

And his antics at the end of the season are immature. I could ramble on this for days but I’ll try to contain myself. You continually break down, say you’re not going to return, that you’ve played your last day in the NFL and retire to your southern Mississippi home. Then you say you feel better after your 3 month hiatus and make a valiant return to the gridiron. We believed you the first time, maybe, just maybe. The second time, I was sick. And the third time, I just paid you no attention. Okay, you are old and you don’t want to go through summer workouts. I wouldn’t want to do them either, but don’t go down crying then return on your noble stead. MJ could do it a couple times, but you’re no MJ. Make a decision and stick with it.

Now decisions, that’s an ever encompassing word in Brett’s vocabulary. So what he passed Dan Marino in touchdown passes? He also has the most interceptions ever. And I know this is an overdrawn argument but it works. A gunslinger only knows one way to play football and that is to throw it, even when there is no hope for success. And sometimes it works and you look like a hero and other times it doesn’t work and you are criticized. His arm strength has helped with his mentality, but some great receivers like Donald Driver on the receiving end made up for numerous poor decisions.

But that is in the past and he is still a Hall of Famer and able to move a team to Super Bowl. Wrong.

Let’s take a look at the last 2 years. One with the Jets and the next with the Vikings.

1. The year with the Jets was more of a transition than anything. Allow he consistently denies it and such; he was a horrible personality in the locker-room. It was his first year out of Green Bay and he walked into that locker room like he owned the place; and you just don’t do that in New York. (Unless you’re Lebron James and the Knicks) So he waltzed in there and did what he always does, he threw the ball all over that place and ended up single handedly kick the J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets out of the playoffs. And then Favre retired again.

The next year, with a rookie quarterback in Mark Sanchez, and a crazy fiery coach in Rex Ryan they went to the AFC title game. They kept the ball on the ground and played some defense and won games, games that mattered. Short story… the Jets were better off without Brett.

2. This past year when Favre played for the Vikings. The Viking had everything; a stellar defense, hicktastic Jared Allen was a force on defense and deep secondary. Their offense was above average with ‘All-Day’ Adrian Peterson running wild in Minneapolis. The only question mark was at QB, which is a pretty big question mark but as we saw with the Jets, Ravens Steelers you don’t necessarily need an All-Pro quarterback to win. Then Lee Dungaree himself showed up.

Favre proceeded to throw the ball 33 times a game. That was not a misprint, misspell, or whatever. 33 times a game, a game, Favre dropped back to throw the ball. And Peterson only got 19 carries a game. He still racked up 1300 yards and 18 touchdowns. The best player in the league wasn’t getting the back because the old hack wanted to sling it all over the yard to receivers like Sidney Rice and Visathe Shiancoe. Then he proceed to lose to the New Orleans Saints in the NFC title game, with 2 crucial intercepts by… you guessed it Brett Favre.

He is a player that only my grandmother can love. So Brett it’s time to go, and they will welcome you with open arms to the god-awful Fox Sports pregame show.