“We’ll Never Forget You, Brent”
[Guest post by DRJ]
It’s not easy to be a Packer fan during this Favre-less season:
“The Packers legend was roundly booed by fans in his first return to Lambeau Field since the acrimonious split he had with the team (and its fans) last year. While some in the crowd politely applauded [Brett] Favre when he came out for warm-ups, went to midfield for the coin toss and took his first snaps from under center, the vast majority of fans showered Favre with boos.
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Among the best anti-Favre items seen at the game were the Fedro-Favre sign [pictured at the link], a t-shirts with “True Legends Don’t Wear Purple” written in green, a poster that said “We’ll Never Forget You, Brent” and a banner flying behind a plane reading “Retire 4 Good.”
And people think politics is harsh.
— DRJ
Mrs G is from Wisconsin, and while she is not a sports fan, some of her relatives are rabid when it comes to the Packers. At her aunt’s home it is virtually impossible to find any appliance, cup, plate,wall surface, towel, child or pet that is not adorned with the logo.
Gazzer (3bd236) — 11/1/2009 @ 6:16 pmAfter the Vikings won, Favre was bring interviewed on the field. He was asked if he had anything to say to the Green Bay fans.
Favre said he hoped the Packer fans loved him as much as he loved them.
ropelight (2f5f37) — 11/1/2009 @ 6:18 pmI cannot find it in myself to not like Brett Fav-ruh.
JD (b292bd) — 11/1/2009 @ 6:24 pmBrent?
Gerald A (a66d02) — 11/1/2009 @ 6:58 pmI liked the guy with the #4 jersey with the name “Judas” on the back.
One option for greeting Favre I liked, other than kicking him in the nuts before he put his cup on, was everyone just sitting in total silence when he was introduced and first set foot on the field.
No, I’d had it years ago with His Favreness.
PCD (eea3de) — 11/1/2009 @ 7:35 pmI try to ignore most of what goes on north of the Cheese Curtain unless the Bears are playing in Lambeau.
daleyrocks (718861) — 11/1/2009 @ 7:38 pmMy godson lived in that dreary, cold, little town, for two years. I don’t blame Favre in the least for leaving it.
nk (df76d4) — 11/1/2009 @ 8:41 pm6,7, I lived in that unique town for 23 years. Before there were Cheeseheads and before Bud Selig’s ego out grew the state.
Don’t forget, Tony “Monk” Shaloub is a 72 Green Bay East grad.
PCD (1d8b6d) — 11/2/2009 @ 8:27 amPoor Packers. Publicly owned, their glory years are tied to great GMs: Lambeau, Lombardi and Wolf. Yeah, Lombardi was a great coach, but, remember, when the well went dry he left too.
Gonna be wait before the Title returns.
gary gulrud (f1fb87) — 11/2/2009 @ 12:15 pmGary,
Lombardi thought he could walk away from coaching and just be a GM. He found he couldn’t do that, and he couldn’t fire Bengston and replace him with himself.
Wolf wasn’t so great. He made his mistakes, too.
PCD (1d8b6d) — 11/2/2009 @ 12:33 pmThere is something just plain wrong about seeing Favre in a Vikings uniform.
In light of the upcoming NFL contract negotiations I would just like to say to the players, “You guys are the most underpaid, unappreciated group of people anywhere. You deserve 10x what these cheapskates are paying you.” And to the owners, “You guys are being robbed by these over pampered, egotistical thieves. Why they can make so much money off of sports endorsements that they should be paying you for the privilege of being on the team.”
snookered (c64d75) — 11/2/2009 @ 7:23 pmThere are more important things in the world, but the controversy over one man playing football suggests the more imnportant things won’t fare too well.
There are a lot of Brett Favre fans, maybe they just are afraid to go public in GB. When GB and MN was in MN there were many jerseys of #4 with a hybrid of green and gold and purple.
I don’t understand the hostility. I never saw it as an issue of Favre wanting to tell the Packer organization what to do, but simply a guy who loves to play football and waffled on whether he still could or should. If some team wanted to give him a chance, that’s their issue. The head coach at Minn was an assistant working with Favre in GB years ago and it would be a natural fit, whether GB was in the same div. or not. The fact that the Packers didn’t want him to play with the Vikings last year communicated that they still feared his abilities, but yet didn’t want to play him. I don’t like the way free agency has made much of pro sports a bidding war for mercenaries, but at the same time I don’t think a team should be able to control a player’s “destiny” either (“we are not cutting you, but we will not play you, you can sit on our bench as long as you want.”)
“We’ll Never Forget You, Brent”
Brent?
Comment by Gerald A
Hard to know what to do with a line that can’t spell your name right…
PCD, I would like to know what Ron Wolf did wrong, in your opinion. Before your comment I’ve never heard “Ron Wolf” and “wrong” in the same sentence, before.
And gary, why are you sour on public ownership? I know pro-sports are a business and entertainment, but I still like the idea of being a “fan” and not a “consumer” of a sports franchise.
Green Bay Packer die-hards remind me of people who are pro-life, pro-defense, pro-capitalism but vote Democrat because they always have.
MD in Philly (8b02c7) — 11/3/2009 @ 6:28 amMD,
I never vote Democrap.
Wolf was never really good with his 1st rounders that he drafted. People just remember him trading for “His Favreness”, getting Reggie White, Sean Jones, and others in free agency.
Wolf, like Thompson, did his “damage” in the mid to late rounds. Mark Tauscher was a 7th round after thought. Ahman Green was a throw in on a trade.
Wolf traded away some pretty good QBs (Mark Brunnell, Matt Hasselback,…).
PCD (1d8b6d) — 11/3/2009 @ 7:23 amOh, I forgot one of Wolf’s monumental mistakes, TONY MANDRICH!
PCD (1d8b6d) — 11/3/2009 @ 7:25 amPCD-
My comment about diehard packer fans and democrats was not at all meant to be a persoanl reference to you, sorry if it seemed that way.
I appreciate your observations on Don Wolfe and can readily agree. Yes, come to think of it, he “put together” the packers largely through free agency, including Desmond Howard. I don’t know how Bennett and Levins got to GB.
FWIW, I think Favre really does love GB and the fans there (at least he has). Relatives of my wife in GB had friends who lived near Favre and Brooks back in the day, and they really seemed to be part of the neighborhood. (I’m sure they had nice homes, but GB is not known for expanses of multi-million dollar mansions ;^)
MD in Philly (8b02c7) — 11/3/2009 @ 7:43 amMD,
Brent was known for building homes outside of town.
Many present and former Packers live in the “regular” neighborhoods. Bart Starr had a nice home in DePere that wasn’t separated from his neighbors by fences or green space. He even lent out his lawn mower when a neighbor’s broke down. Brent wasn’t known for that.
PCD (1d8b6d) — 11/3/2009 @ 8:16 amI was actually really surprised to not see a standing O for him at the end of the game. Was a tough loss though, to see favre doing so well elsewhere…
nfl picks (a813c4) — 11/4/2009 @ 1:13 pm