Go to the Vikings Brett, But Once You Do, It's Over Between Us

I was one of those kids. I never had to witness the horrors of growing up watching the Packers in the '70s and '80s. It was the '90s, and with Favre, things were just sitting pretty. We had two Super Bowl appearances, with one Super Bowl win, and winning season after winning season—all the while watching games with my dad, who was just happy he could watch the Packers games without feeling miserable. We owed this to the wonderful and infallible Brett Favre. It was the 2000s, and Favre was still making us proud. He was throwing the ball around like he was a kid, and whenever the season ended, we would just pray that he would keep going for one more season. In 2005 we had a miserable season but we just told ourselves it was the injuries, and we could see that Brett could still play his heart out, and it was for our team—he was loyal to us—and we worshipped him. He proved to all of us that he still had it in 2007, taking the youngest team in the league to a 13-3 record, ... (link)