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Can we please move on from Brett Favre?
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<blockquote data-quote="toolkien" data-source="post: 454207" data-attributes="member: 4637"><p>Moving on from Favre himself is pretty easy. It's moving on from the righteously indignant who point their fingers at others and say they are not true Packer fans if they refuse to bow before all things Favre. They seem to be a dying breed, but just when you think it's over the "he saved the franchise single handedly and won a Super Bowl single handedly and he had no one else around him etc etc etc" come back out. I won't shrink from such lest the narrative bend back in the wrong direction. It also acts as a cautionary tale (as we indeed move toward to the future) that we don't create the same situation all over again.</p><p> </p><p>It comes down to this - there were actually THREE Brett Favres over those years - the on-field Favre who ran up stats and won games and had a nice Jim Kelly caliber career (if strung out longer), the lectern Favre facing the media which over time created his media interface character (every player of note develops a persona), and then there was the folkloric NFL Celebrity Favre vaulted three layers above his on-field level (over-hype sells the NFL to casual fans and moves merchandise). There are still people who confuse the myth of the last with the reality of the first and are aggressive in their arguments.</p><p> </p><p>And, so long as the perfunctory honors are still out there in the future (number retiring and ring of honor), and olive branches are considered necessary, articles relating to such will appear and the debates will start afresh. It's almost a motivation to get it done as soon as possible so we can move on once and for all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toolkien, post: 454207, member: 4637"] Moving on from Favre himself is pretty easy. It's moving on from the righteously indignant who point their fingers at others and say they are not true Packer fans if they refuse to bow before all things Favre. They seem to be a dying breed, but just when you think it's over the "he saved the franchise single handedly and won a Super Bowl single handedly and he had no one else around him etc etc etc" come back out. I won't shrink from such lest the narrative bend back in the wrong direction. It also acts as a cautionary tale (as we indeed move toward to the future) that we don't create the same situation all over again. It comes down to this - there were actually THREE Brett Favres over those years - the on-field Favre who ran up stats and won games and had a nice Jim Kelly caliber career (if strung out longer), the lectern Favre facing the media which over time created his media interface character (every player of note develops a persona), and then there was the folkloric NFL Celebrity Favre vaulted three layers above his on-field level (over-hype sells the NFL to casual fans and moves merchandise). There are still people who confuse the myth of the last with the reality of the first and are aggressive in their arguments. And, so long as the perfunctory honors are still out there in the future (number retiring and ring of honor), and olive branches are considered necessary, articles relating to such will appear and the debates will start afresh. It's almost a motivation to get it done as soon as possible so we can move on once and for all. [/QUOTE]
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