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Favre fan gets served
Cold, Hard Football Facts for August 7, 2008
We don't normally pull out single emails people send to us and publish them here. We usually compile them in a lengthy and highly entertaining Mail Pouch. But we're long overdue for a Mail Pouch and have hundreds of emails to wade through and may not get to them anytime soon.
Plus, there's nothing we love more than tooling on factless readers and, more specifically, tooling on Cheeseheads wearing their No. 4 jerseys while lost in the year 1996. And, now that Brett Favre is with the Jets, kicking Cheeseheads when they're down is just too rich an opportunity to overlook.
So it is we respond publicly to this e-mail we got Tuesday from Favre fan Brent Carter (remember, there is a difference between Favre fans and Packers fans). He comes armed with nothing, leaps wildly from one non-sequitur to another and clearly has no concept of what the Cold, Hard Football Facts are all about.
For his effort, he gets publicly humiliated in old-school CHFF style. Fans of CHFF circa 2004-05 will truly appreciate this taste of the old days.
Consider yourselves entertained.
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You guys are GREAT! I just read the Cheesehead article. That guy Favre must have been a bum. I'll bet he never won a game. He must not have any records in the NFL. They should have put him on waivers a long time ago.
I agree that this Aaron Rodgers guy is the best man, what with all his experience and consecutive game records. If they could only get a good film guy like Belicheat had, then Mr. Rodgers would know the defensive signals before the ball was snapped. The Cheesehead article must have been written by a true Masshole. The Giants Super Bowl win over the Patsies must of been a fluke, but the Patsie's SB win over the heavily favored Rams wasn't. I guess the great teams in the AFC East didn't prepare you for a real team in the Super Bowl! – Brent Carter
CHFF responds
Typical cheesehead, lost in the glory days of 1996. Do you still wear your high school band uniform, Brent, when you watch replays of the Super Bowl victory from 11 years ago?
First, we never said Rodgers was better than Favre. Never even implied it. What we said is that, for the last several years, the whole organization waited on pins and needles to see if Favre was going to retire or come back for another year, and that they jeopardized the careers of every other player on the team through their inaction and by putting Favre ahead of the organization as a whole. And we said that, when Favre finally told the world back in March that "I have nothing left to give," that it was only reasonable that the organization move on without him ... finally.
The notion that he could just waltz back into camp whenever he damn well pleased (after retiring!) was incredibly selfish and typical of a player who thought he was bigger than the organization.
In any case, it seems you missed the part in the article where we outlined, in no uncertain detail, how Favre killed the team in the 2001 playoffs, the 2002 playoffs, the 2003 playoffs, the 2004 playoffs, nearly set the INT record in the 2005 season, had one of the worst passer ratings in the league in 2006, and then killed the team in the 2007 playoffs.
We suggest you go back and read the article. Let's put it this way, Brent: if Favre played his whole career in New York, instead of Green Bay, the fans and media would have run him out of town years ago, probably after his record-setting six-pick performance against the Rams, or the dreadful home loss to the 9-6-1 Falcons, or the four picks in the dreadful home loss to the 8-8 Vikings, or the instant overtime picks in playoff games against the (take your pick) Eagles and/or Giants.
But luckily for Favre, he played almost his entire career in front of people like you, Brent: the biggest collection of ass-kissing country bumpkins in all of professional sports.
So instead of running him out of town like New Yorkers would have, Favre shit all over you and other Packers fans every January since 1996 – and you sat there and said "thank you, sir, may we have another season?"
Not sure what the Patriots-Rams and Giants-Patriots have to do with anything, really.
We weren't around for the Patriots-Rams Super Bowl... but here are some of the things we wrote about the Giants-Patriots:
There were plenty more stories about New York's great victory in the greatest upset in modern NFL history. But you should get the point by now. And, as for Belichick (again, not sure what he has to do with anything here ... but you brought him up), here's the last thing we wrote about him. If you weren't such a simpleton you might have seen the piece on the home page:
Oh, and in case you think we have it out for the Packers or for Packers fans – well, again you're wrong. We just have it out for hopelessly pathetic Favre fans who put a single player above the best organization in NFL history.
If you were as big a Packers fan as you profess to be, you would have known all this about the Cold, Hard Football Facts. Hell, we go on ESPN Milwaukee practically every other week to talk about the Packers. But instead of being a real Packers fan, you're a blind ass-kissing Brett Favre worshipper who wouldn't know or appreciate Packers history if it kicked you in the nuts ... kinda like we just did.
Next time, look before you Lambeau leap, son. Because you're in over your head here. Until then, consider yourself served.
CHFF
p.s. ... you mentioned, Brent, that New England's AFC East schedule last year must not have prepared them for "a real team" in the Super Bowl. We should remind you that the Patriots went 4-0 against the NFC East, as well, including a victory over the Giants on the road. But, hey, the Patriots just didn't show up in the biggest game of the year and choked on the big one. But that must be the Massholes in us talking.
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