Brett Favre has decided to retire from the NFL after 17 seasons.
As a Packers fan, I’m a little heartbroken. Mostly, though, I’m grateful for all the fun. Thanks, Brett.
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I think it’s classy to go out on top. Last season was a great epitaph to an awesome career. I say get out before some 290 pound defensive end blindsides you into Troy Aikman’s concussion retirement.
Good for Brett.
Yeah, I agree. He’ll probably be able to walk when he’s 50.
I thought he was already 50.
OH NO. My husband is going to be disconsolate.
So are my wife and kids, Carin. As for me, I’ll only start being disconsolate next season, I think, so I can enjoy the well-earned summer.
I like it, though, that he didn’t turn his last season into a long goodbye tour. Imagine what the fawning coverage would have been like then.
“I’m grateful for all the fun”
What a perfect way to describe this stellar career.
Unfortunately, being Favre, he first mistakenly gave the press conference to a group of reporters from the Kyoto Sun, in Green Bay to examine the American Cheese-pressing industry. Some alleged that the regular sporting press pool just hadn’t run their route to the Packers’ press room energetically enough, or that the weather had delayed them a bit, but the gaffe was quickly forgiven when Favre ripped off a series of one line bombs.
He’ll be missed by this Jints fan as much for his flair in failure, as for his flair in success. Plus he seems to be a class act, and an old school hard man. I tip my two-beer NY Football Jints hardhat to him.
I can’t stand the Pack, but always liked Favre. I can always appreciate the gunslinger.
And that he reined it in a bit last year, after oh so many years, is remarkable.
And sure to be found in a boat or a treestand, or on a tractor, nowhere near you.
Counting playoffs, 275 consecutive starts.
No more Favre gushing on Moday Night Football? Sounds like I’ll get to revert back to yelling expetives at the refs.
Brett finally get pasteurized. Whoop.
Pretty good, thor.
My first thought upon reading this was “The Pats must have signed Moss.” Clicking over to ESPN, they have.
Bradshaw once described Favre as a “class player and a ‘man’s man.'” He certainly is. I’m sure the Pack will miss him. However, the Bears just breathed a little sigh of relief.
Adios, stud. 17 years is a pretty nice career.
No worries, “Mad Dog” Michael Vick is out in another season, Packer fans.
Out of habit, Monday Night Football cameras and John Madden will continue to follow Favre around his Mississippi ranch, gushing at his every movement. “Didja see that? Brett just drove that pickup truck, right up to the, uhhhhh, the uhhhhh, the mailbox there. BOOM!”
Frank Caliendo loses a chunk of material.
If Favre’s retirement causes Tony Kornheiser to commit suicide, I say it’s all good.
Since Rex Grossman also throws a lot of interceptions at inopportune times, he now takes over the “gunslinger” moniker from Favre.
better title?
FavRevoir
Maybe you need Ben Stiller to say it….