Brett Favre is a Bad Person

Where’s Charles Martin when you need him?  BJ Raji better be carrying a towel with the number “4″ on it on November 1.

Ok, so that may be an overreaction.  I’ll be satisfied if he just fails miserably.  He doesn’t have to necessarily get injured.

I was of the opinion that Favre doesn’t owe me anything as a Packer fan,  but this is impossible to ignore.  He knows what this means, and he doesn’t care.  He’s doing this to punish the Packers, and by extension, Packer fans.  Not only that — he would have done this last year if he had his druthers.  He doesn’t care about anything except his imaginary beef with Ted Thompson.  He doesn’t even appreciate all the little Favre-a-maniacs out there.  It’s like his greatness and his fans’ adoration are somehow separate from each other, and he can just go to any team and it won’t matter, because his legacy is strictly contained in statistics.  And maybe it is for the generic NFL observer.  But for Packer fans, he’s just another in a long line of betraying legends from that 1996-7 Super Bowl-winning team.  If Reggie White can steal a bunch of money and try to come back with the Panthers, I guess we can’t be shocked by Favre joining the hated Vikings.  It’s pretty much par for the course with pro athletes in Wisconsin.

All that cheering we did for him was a mistake, just like all the cheering he’ll be hearing from the people of Minnesota is a mistake.  At the very least, the cheers should have been lined with cynicism.  It was a business relationship, that’s all.  We used Favre for his legendary play and one Super Bowl victory, and he used us to become a walking press conference who can retire and unretire at will.  Wisconsin, and its adoration, meant less to him than the dollars and fame he got for being Brett Favre.  And now he’s in that place of purple jerks, it all makes sense.

Again, I’m overstating this.  The Packers, after all, didn’t want him.  Especially after he retired, and told them he wasn’t coming back.  In other words, especially after he lied to them.  But he’s totally justified in feeling a little hurt, because he was so good for so long for that franchise, and they thought the franchise was bigger than just him.  How dare they!

Now he’s obsessed with getting back at the Packers, for wrong both real and perceived.  This has landed him in a Vikings jersey, and nobody cares how I feel about this.  For that reason, and many others, Benedict Favreold is a bad person.