Favre’s Systematic Torture of Cheeseheads Continues

By David Roth
WSJ

One man cannot win a football game all by himself. Too much goes into even one play for one player to reap all the credit. But this isn’t going to work. Anyone who watched the Minnesota Vikings beat the Green Bay Packers on Monday already knows that Brett Favre defeated the entire Green Bay Packers organization. With nothing more than a rocket arm, overwhelming charisma and … well, great receivers, a punishing defensive front and an offensive line that kept him from being sacked even once while Green Bay counterpart Aaron Rodgers went down eight times.

Just because the broadcast overhyped the significance of Favre facing the team with which he spent 16 seasons doesn’t mean it wasn’t dramatic to see the future Hall of Famer at his very best, passing for an efficient 271 yards and three scores. “The uniforms were all mixed up but the play was something out of a decade ago,” Yahoo’s Dan Wetzel writes. “You can remain skeptical (as I do) of Favre’s season-long prognosis, but there was little doubt about this one. It was a performance right out of his peak, Favre making all the right throws, all the correct reads, all the proper decisions. This was no game management, no complementary role.” Sports Illustrated’s Peter King reports that the 39-year-old was anxious and emotional before, during and after the game.

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