Without Favre for 16 years, GB would have been struggling to get to the playoffs as they did in the 70's and 80's.
Nonsense. Someone who knows one hell of a lot more about football than anyone posting here nearly replaced Favre during the 1994 season. Holmgren came close to replacing Favre with Mark Brunell. Now Brunell wasn’t the QB Favre was but to think Wolf wouldn’t have acquired another QB and Holmgren and his staff of future HCs wouldn’t have ‘coached up’ that QB if Brunell wasn’t the answer is nonsense.
The Packers 1996 defense surrendered fewer TDs than the great 1985 Bears D during the regular season and fewer than Seattle’s D this season. The 1996 Packers were a great
team. Certainly not dependent upon one player. IMO the transformative event that brought the Packers out of the dark ages of the 70s and 80s was Bob Harlan re-structuring the organization by creating the powerful position he hired Ron Wolf to fill. Then Wolf went after the most sought-after HC at the time and hired him. The acquisition of Favre and White were important but not nearly as important as fixing the structure of the organization. Since then, except for Mike Sherman’s brief tenure as GM, the organization has had one football man in charge of hiring and firing the HC and in charge of personnel. The result has been one of the most successful NFL franchises since that time.
What I find
interesting when this issue comes up is posters jumping up and down insisting everyone else agree with them and “let it go”. Their dogged insistence seems incongruous with the notion of ‘letting go’. And some have the gall to call others immature. Many of them are ignorant with regard to all of what Favre did (Packerfan0220 the most recent, but far from the only example here) but insist those of us who were paying more attention should agree with them.
Look, I have never started a thread about Favre or even think about him unless someone else brings up the subject. But there is no reason for me to forget his traitorous acts against the franchise. IMO he not only crapped on members of the Packers organization, he also crapped on Packers fans. And I will never forgive him if he doesn’t admit what he did and apologize for it. And with regard to his wife, he also publicly crapped on their marriage, didn’t he? But she has ‘stuck by her man’ and I don’t blame her for that. But with his long history of infidelity, she can hardly claim surprise.
If others want to forgive him without an apology that's OK with me. But they have no right to insist I agree with them. And when they misstate or forget what happened, those of us who remember have every right to correct them. We're all entitled to our own opinions, but not to 'our own' facts.