Originally Posted By DAR <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-packers-favre&prov=ap&type=lgns" target="_blank">http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/ne ws?slug=ap-packers-favre&prov=ap&type=lgns</a> It's a little shocking and sad. But I'm a Packers fan first and I think this team will be okay. We're the youngest team in the league and have a bright future.
Originally Posted By mele I saw this thread and thought "oh no, something happened to DAR" and thought I'd offer some words of comfort. LOL I'm, um, sorry? ;-)
Originally Posted By friendofdd My condolences, DAR. I know it is hard to understand now, but, eventually, life will go on.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Gosh, I read the title of this thread, and thought you'd been diagnosed with inoperable cancer or something. And it's sports. No offense....but phhhhhtttttttt!
Originally Posted By ReadingMom For a few years I participated in a fantay football league. I chose Brett Favre every year for my quarterback. Everyone else thought that I was crazy because I didn't choose someone younger but I just thought that Brett Favre was so cool.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Does that mean I can stop trying to figure out how to pronounce that stupid last name?? ;-)
Originally Posted By mele <<Does that mean I can stop trying to figure out how to pronounce that stupid last name?? ;-)>> Ha, nobody else tries to pronounce it correctly.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Did you hear that Zygi Wilf is trying to get Favre to play for the Vikings next year? Apparently they are offering him a one-year 20 million dollar contract. Just kidding... but wouldn't it be great??
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS DAR, I feel your pain. For some reason we got rid of Zach Thomas instead of Cam Cameron. Go figure.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 I'll miss Brett Favre. He lives in a little town around here and is a neighbor of one of my partner's co-workers. Seems to be a real nice guy. Down to earth, good with kids, generous. Hands out his own Halloween candy each year. Very low key. Oh, wait. I'm thinking of Brandon Inge, a Detroit Tiger. I always get those two mixed up. Sorry.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost At least three guys came up to me and announced, in the same tone as when the shuttle exploded, about the retirement. I'm sure they were as shocked when I said...WHO??...as I was that they were in deep depression over it.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Mele and DAR, I've heard it pronounced "Farv"... And that does't make any sense either. *LOL* Was it a typo on his birth certificate or something? ;-) Sorry sports fans... Back to your regular programming.
Originally Posted By DAR Well it is day one AF(After Favre)and as I looked out towards Lake Michigan, I did see the sun off in the distance. So I think everything is going to be okay. But you have to remember that he was part of everyone's lives, young and old here. Younger people were in grade school when he first started. I had just graduated high school when he first came to Green Bay. I admit it sounds a little silly that we would pay such homage to a sports figure, but that's what he meant. But if you want to know the defining moment of his career. Here it is Arguably his greatest game ever took place on December 22, 2003, in a Monday Night Football game against the Oakland Raiders. The day before Brett's father Irvin Favre ran into a ditch near Kiln, Mississippi, where years earlier Brett Favre had nearly died in a car accident. Irv went off the road at 5:23 p.m., according to eye-witness reports, and was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. An autopsy performed the following day showed that Irvin Favre died of a sudden heart attack. Favre elected to play the day after his father's death, and passed for four touchdowns in the first half and 399 total yards in a 41-7 victory over the Raiders on international television (even receiving applause from "Raider Nation"). Afterwards, Favre said, "I knew that my dad would have wanted me to play. I love him so much and I love this game. It's meant a great deal to me, to my dad, to my family, and I didn't expect this kind of performance. But I know he was watching tonight. He then went to his father's funeral in Pass Christian, Mississippi. Now here's the thing not one person in the state would have faulted Brett if he didn't want to play or if he had the worst game of his career. The only thing people wanted to do was just give the guy a hug. When the Raider game ended that night and Brett spoke, I can tell you there probably wasn't a dry eye in the state that day or yesterday.
