Brett Favre: The Chicago Perspective

 
Brett Favre has spent the past 17 years dazzling fans with his play, seeming to not care what happens to his body as long as he was able to help his team win the game. Packers fans  cringed when they watched him throw up the ball to Donald Driver, and spent the next minute and a half afterwards cheering, because Brett had thrown the perfect pass to the reciever that most quarterbacks would have seen as covered. He lived by the gunslinger mentallity.  He threw a touchdown or an interception seemingly every play. (He even holds the NFL career records for touchdowns and interceptions.) And as a Chicago fan, nobody spent more time in the fetal position after he shredded bad 90's Bears teams one after another. He goes down in history as one of the greatest of all time. Monatana, Unitas, Namath, Favre. No matter what conversation you are having, if football is the topic, Favre is the answer. He started as a little known guy from Mississippi, he's a blue-collar guy who believes in hard work ... [link]

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