That is very sad to read...
You can't just root for a team, if you are angry at the player, you're the bad guy.
If it wasn't for Brett, I probably wouldn't have became a Pack fan at such a young age. Even after he left, I still gave him that respect. But when you root for the same team for so many years, and grow a ravid hatred for rivals, how does it not hurt when you see the man that made you love football so much throw everything away and go play for the Vikings?
How would Dallas fans feel if Aikman came back out of retirement to go play for the Eagles or Redskins?
The one argument I often get is "49er fans still rooted for Joe when he played for K.C." and that is because 2 reasons: Number 1, he was playing for the Chiefs and not the Rams, Falcons, or Saints whom were all in the 49ers division. Number 2, the fans were very ******* Steve Young until he won them a Super Bowl.
The Packers fan base openly accepted Rodgers early on, and I believe that is what mattered the most before Favre went to Minnesota. We could have been sighing and constantly saying "It would be better if Favre was still here" when losing 10 games in 2008. 2009 was really bad cause it was constantly thrown in our faces how much of an outstanding season the old man was having with Minnesota. Favre couldn't play forever, and unlike Michael Jordan, he didn't retire inside his prime. It was time to move on. Sure you can argue he had one last awesome season in 2009, but still they can't play forever. That's exactly why the 49ers had to move on from Montana instead of bowing down to the fans, they were thinking about the future, and winning with another quarterback.
It comes down to loyalty and why you love a team. Living down south around many Favre fans, I was shocked when the NFC Championship rolled through the gulf coast and sports bars in Mississippi were not supporting the Saints, but supporting Minnesota (they didn't even bother decorating in Packers gear back in the 1990's, and had always been Saints supporters) seeing that on the news and people down there saying how they didn't want the closest team to where they live (Saints) to win, they wanted Favre get another ring, was VERY SAD. There was even one big sports bar on the Alabama/Mississippi border that took down half their Saints decorations to put Vikings stuff up. I still don't believe anyone can wrap their brain around that why sports bars down in Mississippi were picking one man over a team that they had been supporting for years.
Who ever wrote that statement, and the big time Favre supporters sound like the kind of fans that dominated the 49ers fan base in the early 90's, that were not satisfied with Steve Young until he won them a Super Bowl. It's not that he was MVP in 1992, and brought them to the NFC Championship game twice, it's that he wasn't Joe, and he was never gonna win it and blah blah blah. Those are the fans that would rather you be sighing and wishing for Brett to come back instead of having such a magnificent young gun slinger that replaced him and already won a Super Bowl.
