Favre, pro and con

I've never been a fan of Brett Favre, This dislike no doubt began when he was at Green Bay. Wisconsin is a Big 10 state and I, growing up in Southern Cal, grew up disliking any Big 10 team that came to play a California team (usually) in the Rose Bowl. Then when Favre retired and unretired and retired again, strutting in and out of the news like a prima donna, I really disliked him. So I wasn't excited about the possibility of Favre going to the Super Bowl.

And therefore it is fitting, in an unfortunate way, that Favre himself blew the Vikings chances to do this. A tie game, 7 seconds left, Favre rolling right with pasture ahead of him, all he had to do is run and slide and the Vikings could win the game on a field goal. But he didn't do the obvious thing. I once played QB, even I could have seen this. No, Favre tried to do something more heroic, he threw across his body, left, the worst kind of throw, and he was intercepted. The Saints went on to win in overtime. But the Vikings had a good shot at winning in regulation if Favre hadn't made a really, really stupid error. And he did the same thing two years ago. For all his glory, he has a propensity to make very dumb decisions when it counts. This is why he is not one of the really great QBs of all time, certainly not in the top five.

Now the melodrama returns, will he or will he not retire again, and un-retire again, and so on?

Despite my dislike of him, Favre, a 40 year old, had one hell of a season. He is one tough customer. And often a jerk.