Favre Rage was a phenomenon that launched a thousand bloggers.ĭespite his own fair share of actual shady behavior over the years, including most famously his infamous sexts to a Jets team employee, Favre remained a hugely successful pitchman for dozens of companies and even a power broker in Mississippi politics his endorsement of Cindy Hyde-Smith in 2018 was thought to be a significant boost to her campaign.īut now it seems he has done something unethical enough that nobody - not his lawmaker friends, not his onetime legion of defenders in the press - is making excuses for him anymore. Nobody wanted the spotlight more than Favre, and the sports industrial complex was ever so eager to give it to him. He actually had news stations tracking his flights and bus rides from the airport. He also wrung every bit of indulgent drama out of his career - what team he might sign with next whether he was going to support his successor, Aaron Rodgers whether he was going to retire, or unretire, or retire again. And Favre ate it all up, acting the homespun Mississippi boy who just was drawin’ plays in the dirt out there. Other teams had “stats” and “game plans” and “rational decision-making.” Favre’s teams had Favre. Favre was forever elevated to a sort of frontier sheriff, the final-justice cowboy of a mythical western. He wasn’t imprecise and impulsive he just trusted his gut. That was the term they always used: gunslinger. But to the broadcasters of his games - and the media who covered him - Favre wasn’t a foolhardy hothead. Favre was mistake prone, cocksure, heedlessly self-destructive, and so pigheaded that you wondered if his brain was capable of consuming and retaining new information. You can actually hear the souls of Vikings fans being sucked out of their bodies in this video.īut what truly made you want to throw a brick through the TV was the way the broadcasters treated him. (He still holds the NFL all-time interceptions record with 336, and with each passing year, his mark seems more and more untouchable only one active quarterback, Tom Brady, who’s 28th all-time, is within 130 of him, despite playing three more seasons.) The final postseason interception of Favre’s career, when he was trying to lead the Vikings to the Super Bowl, remains one of the worst and most profoundly stupid passes in NFL history. Favre was the ultimate let’s-do-it-and-be-legends lunatic as a quarterback, blessed with a howitzer of an arm and a ceaseless, almost megalomaniacal confidence in it: There was no throw Favre didn’t think he could make, often to his team’s detriment. His style of play certainly had something to do with it. And no one ever made you want to yell at your television more than Brett Favre. They were summoned into existence so fans could make public what they had been yelling at their televisions in private for years. He was subsequently suspended for having an elevated testosterone level, which might explain the extraordinary performance-and the extraordinary trash talk.One could make an argument that sports blogs - and, by extension, the entire modern sports internet - really came into their own thanks to Brett Favre. He bested Silva on all the judges cards through four rounds, only to tap out with 3:10 left in the fight. But after talking the talk, could he walk the walk? Turns out yes, to a point. He also (allegedly) made a series of funny ("you are going to be on your back more than a pornstar with a mortgage") and racist ("pray to whatever Demon effigy you prance and dance in front of with your piglet tribe of savages that I decide not to CRUCIFY you") tweets from an account he later claimed was a fake. Prior to his UFC 117 matchup with Anderson Silva, Sonnen went on a veritable trash-talking rampage, dissing Silva's martial arts bonafides (“A black belt from the Nogueira brothers is like saying I got a free toy in my happy meal”) and threatening Silva with unsportsmanlike (and unsanitary) violence (“I'll smile to his face and if he turns his back I'm gonna stick a knife in him and walk away without even cleaning up the mess”).
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