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JediCouncilMember
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Date Posted:
3/4 10:28am
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As a Bears fan...it's about time. 
As a football fan, he is clearly one of he best of all time.
GB was still looking to be pretty good, but I guess the prospect of trying to fight through the season again wasn't enough to pull him back. They really had it set up this year facing NY in GB.
It will be interesting if GB struggles a little bit but is still in it (division or wild card) in Nov/Dec, if we start to hear calls for him to comeback and make a playoff run.
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Trimaj
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3/4 10:51am
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i've always thought that when favre retired it'd be the end of an era for the NFL, and it's finally happened. he'll be missed by anyone who enjoyed watching a great competitor.
oh, i agree with whoever said that he made some plays no one else probably could have. that one where he flipped it under arm this past year anyone?
enjoy life brett, you've certainly earned it.
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3/4 11:45am
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Matt Mosley posted:
Mosley: Best in the clutch
It's pretty easy to build a case for Brett Favre as one of the top five quarterbacks of all time based on his numbers, but I'll leave that up to someone else. Favre belongs in that exclusive group because no one performed better in the clutch.
-- Matt Mosley
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Grimby the Hutt
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3/4 11:58am
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What a great player. What a great competitor. What a great quarterback.
It's hard to fathom that for the Green Bay Packers, the last time they had to worry about a starer behind center, it was 1992. A quarterback who started 253 straight games? That's simply unheard of. (I bet a bears fan would have a hard time counting how many qb's they've had since '92  )
Favre may not have left the game on a great note, but he will certainly go down as one of the greatest of all time. I never thought anyone would ever pass Marino's passing yardage record (the guy was 10,000+ ahead of Elway at #2), but Favre managed to surpass him in the same season he broke records for career wins and TD passes. If nothing else, he played long enough to accomplish those marks, as well as prove that his team is as good as be boasted a couple years ago. If Rodgers is as good as the team says he is, they'll surely be back in the playoffs next season.
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s65horsey
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As far as Favre not leaving the team on a great note, he is. People are going to choose to remember his acrobatics display that got the Pack farther than anyone gave them credit to get this past year.
They're going to remember this stuff:
OT MNF vs Broncos
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Grimby the Hutt
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s65horsey posted:
They're going to remember this stuff:
OT MNF vs Broncos
That game never happened, thank you very much. 
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Trimaj
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s65horsey posted:
As far as Favre not leaving the team on a great note, he is. People are going to choose to remember his acrobatics display that got the Pack farther than anyone gave them credit to get this past year.
They're going to remember this stuff:
OT MNF vs Broncos
Magic
definitely, i didn't even remember that his last pass was an INT until i read a couple stories on it. my fave thus far is the don banks one on SI, followed by peter kings favorite story. favre really did become a down to earth guy.
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Boy, is it going to be weird to see the Packers without him.
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Oh, Aaron Rodgers is the image of Brett Favre. He was [sarcasm] amazing [/sarcasm] at Cal.
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Brett Favre is my hero. It is very sad to see him go.
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The game I will always remember, the rest of my life, is the MNF game the day after his father died. Under probably the worst strain any human can play football under, he had maybe the greatest first half of football ever played by a QB. He was as close to perfect as you can be, and you could see that his team mates played their hearts out for him. I don't think a WR dropped a pass the entire game. If they could get a hand on it, it didn't hit the ground. That was just one of those Moments. Those Moments when you know you're watching something special.
I'm glad I was able to get to a game at Lambeau this year and be able to see, in person, him play and just carve up the ViQueens. He was a special player, he was our Quarter Back. Next year might be the strangest season of football I'll ever see, because he's not there. I only started following football right near the end of the Majikowski years, so this is going to be different.
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Drac39
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Wow... 
I can't believe it, you thought he'd be around forever. Football won't be the same without him
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So many memories with Brett. The MNF game after his father died(still chokes me up) The pass to Andre Rison in Superbowl XXXI. Diving for the winning touchdown to make the playoffs in the final Green Bay Game at County Stadium. Even this the pass to Jennings in the Denver game. But what I'll remember most is very first game winning drive. Favre to Kittrick Taylor for a td and the win. The start of something very very special. Number 4 thank you so much for all that you did.
I'd like to add one more thing and it's not so much a Favre memory but I like to think that another Favre gave us a little help. It was the last of the 2003 season against Denver. Packers needed to win and the Vikings lose. Packers win they take the division. Vikings win, Packers are out of the playoffs. So the Pack have their game wrapped up leading 31-3. But the Vikings are leading their game against the Cardinals 17-12 I believe. Arizona just scored and went for the onside kick which they got. Then all of sudden with just seconds left the Cardinals score a touchdown. 66,000 in Green Bay explode, an additional 4 million across the state of Wisconsin go crazy. The Packers live on to fight another day. You can say what you want but I think Irv Favre wanted to give his boy just a little help.
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3/4 5:19pm
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People can say he went out on a bad play... but that's all it was, one play. His last season was one of the best of his career. His team went 13-3 and made it to the NFC Championship game. That's a pretty damn good season.
And for everyone talking about him not being great in the clutch... the reputation of him throwing an INT in clutch situations is pretty much just from the last half decade. In his prime, Favre ALWAYS led his team down the field when they needed it late in the game.
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Everyone brings up the game against the Raiders in 2003 and understandably so, but I think his most overlooked great performance came against Oakland in 1999. He played with an injured thumb and said he couldn't even feel his hand. He threw a touchdown pass to Jeff Thomason with just 10 seconds remaining. That was when he broke down in the press conference afterwards saying he was so drained.
I think that game proved just how great a leader he was.
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