Brett Favre’s NFL Obituary

March 5, 2008 - 9:40 am By COED Staff

brett favre obituary

As a lifelong Brett Favre fan March 4th, 2008 will go down as one of the saddest days of my life. Yesterday, one of the greatest decided it was time to hang it up and it truly marks the end of an era.

Favre was one of the last gun-slinging, non pre-Madonna quarterbacks (err read: JaMarcus Russell). He played the game with passion, youthful attitude, toughness and a will to win few, if any, have ever had. Unlike Tom Brady or Peyton Manning, Favre never had a great offensive line, or marquee wide receivers, but he always figured out a way to make it work. He was an “Iron Man” in every sense of the word starting and playing every game to win.

It’s funny because as I flip through the TV channels people are talking about his retirement like a death rather than him just giving up the game of football.

Favre was your average, everyday American yet so much more. He loved to party, battled with addiction, escaped a near death experience, played a career game the day after his father died, and almost lost his wife to breast cancer but every Sunday there he was in primetime jumping around the field like a little boy without a care in the world.

For the first time in my life someone new will suit up as the quarterback for the Green Bay Packers. It’s a chapter that has come to an end however the legend of Brett Favre has not died and will never die with many American families. His legacy will be passed from generation to generation because I personally want my kids to know how they should live their life in the good times and the bad and Brett Favre is a prime example of this.

My wife still gives me a hard time and says I hunt too much or I like to play too much golf. And she’s probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.

- Brett Favre

g says:

March 5, 2008 at 10:28 am

Good lord. Pre-Madonna? Are you serious? Please tell me you were making a pun? Your writing is atrocious.

bonzai says:

March 5, 2008 at 10:49 am

g – I think he was being facetious and quasi-ironic

n0totron is retarded says:

March 5, 2008 at 10:56 am

I don’t know what NFL you guys are watching but most up-and-coming players… quarterbacks especially, are pre-Madonna douchbags. Brett Favre for president in 2016.

Tamara says:

March 5, 2008 at 2:31 pm

Brett Farve is simply the best QB of all time. He will be missed, but I look forward to seeing him start new adventures in this next phase in his life. I will still love and support The Packers, but it will never be the same w/o Brett. The new QB has some BIG shoes to fill!

Iambetterthanu says:

March 5, 2008 at 3:48 pm

Bret Farve is the MOST overrated qb of all time, plain and simple. This is marks the end to an era of interceptions and overrated play

claireeeee says:

March 5, 2008 at 3:59 pm

i honestly don’t know what the person above me is saying. brett favre was a good quarterback and they wouldn’t have gotten as far as they did this year if he wasn’t a good quarterback. you dont know what you’re talking about. so you might wannna go change your name thing, because no you aren’t better than me, and you aren’t better than anyone else, and you are definitely not better than Brett Favre.

Brett Farvrelous says:

March 5, 2008 at 4:41 pm

Iambetterthanu is right… he was overrated. I could play a football game every week for 17 years if I were on pain killers too. He cheated. No different than Clemens, Bonds or OJ. He killed two people, ya know.