Here's my take
Brett Favre had a very strong arm, probably the strongest in the league for many of the years he was the Packers starting QB. He is a living legend and will be a prominent figure in the NFL history books. His dad Irv Favre was Brett's coach in high school helping to carve out Brett's tough as nails embodiment so much to the point where Brett Favre's consecutive game starting streak will likely never be broken and will stand as one of the greatest sports achievements of our lifetime.
Few players in the history of sports elicited the type of sheer joy Brett Favre brought to his teammates and to football fans alike. Mike Holmgren the head coach of the Green Bay Packers upon Brett Favre's first arrival was a first rate QB teacher and helped harness Favre's unrefined tendencies and instilled a great knowledge of the West Coast Offense to the point where Brett Favre became a 3 time NFL Most Valuable Player and also helped lead the Packers to a Super Bowl victory in 1997.
When Mike Holmgren left Green Bay for greener pastures, Brett Favre slowly devolved from the great QB that once was to a more undisciplined gunslinger who now didn't have anyone to keep him in check.
By the time Mike Sherman arrived, Brett's ego was becoming greater than his play on the field at QB. When leaving the Packers and playing with the Jets Brett Favre even had his own personal locker room. Talk about ego.
With Sherman running the show Favre was at his most undisciplined ever and he was pretty much his own defacto coach. After Sherman was replaced with Mike McCarthy, in a couple years time the Packers and especially Favre had a resurgence on the stat sheet and in the victory column.
All of a sudden discipline and accountability were re-introduced to the team along with better talent as supplied by Ted Thompson. Instead of enjoying the teams successes, Favre chose to look over his shoulder and become paranoid at the developing Aaron Rodgers. At this point in his career Brett Favre had hemmed and hawed about possible retirement going back to the 04 season. The Packers wanted a commitment from Favre that he couldn't provide at the time and Favre officially announced his retirement.
Brett Favre changed his mind but the Packers had already committed to Aaron Rodgers as their QB of the future. Favre forced the Packers hand into trading him and eventually went on to a rival the Vikings (after a stop with the New York Jets most notable for his
texting scandal) and had one of the best seasons of his career only to lose to the New Orleans Saints in the '
bounty gate' game.
Instead of Favre going to the Super Bowl in hopes of claiming an all important
stick it to Ted Thompson moment and a blow to Packer fans everywhere by winning one with the Vikings, Favre went on to have a disastrous final season with the Vikings the next year.
As a life long Packer fan I can forgive many things but the following sentiment still really pi$$ me off to this day.
Rooting for the Bears to defeat the Packers
In my opinion enough credit cannot be given to Ted Thompson for wrestling control of this franchise back from the ego of Brett Favre. He sure took a tremendous amount of heat from Packer fans including many that praise him today. It wasn't until the Super Bowl victory that he was able to get that proverbial monkey off his back.
GO PACKERS Where the franchise will ALWAYS be greater than one person