Favre does it again: The Gchat reaction
Image by Getty Images via Daylife
Yeah, I know I said I wouldn’t mind seeing Brett Favre close out his career with another Super Bowl win, even if it had to be in purple. But, man, this was even more satisfying. For the Vikings and their fans, who thought they were such geniuses all season long, to finally get a taste of why, just maybe, putting the ball in Favre’s hands at the critical moment isn’t always a good thing…very nice.
Here’s my post-game chat with Milwaukee native and Packer fan extraordinaire Ben Perlstein, whose native hatred of all things Viking was only sharpened by the years he spent living in Minneapolis. (You may remember him from this little outing.)
me: so wonderful
ben: wasn’t that great?
me: so satisfying
ben: i was hoping the vikings season would end just like that.
and my wishes came true
me: and that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you don’t sell out your future for one shot at a super bowl with Brett Favre under center
ben: you better be brewing up a stellar blog entry on this.
me: oh i think I might just post this chat
ben: haha
now is the time for all of the packer fans we know who became vikings fans in the past couple weeks to come crawling back.
me: i actually ran into a vikings fan in a percy harvin jersey on my way home
it was nice to have someone to taunt
ben: i kind of want to kick each of them in the face on the way back.
haha
me: oh I have several taunting emails i plan to send tonight
ben: fantastic
i’m texting all of my minneapolis friends now. it’s MY turn, bitches.
me: I’m just glad he played a crummy game. if he’d played lights-out and lost, there would’ve been some pathos in that
but this way, it just felt like, yup, that’s what you get with Favre
ben: you know he’s going to fall apart physically and mentally at the end of the season, we just didn’t realize it would be the last 30 min or so of the season
me: haha
ben: and you can quote me on that.
me: when he walked off with that sprain, i thought it might be the start of something legendary
like that Chicago game he won with the sprain way back when
ben: sure sure
so who does Archie Manning root for in the Super Bowl?
me: oh, the saints, for sure
I don’t think even archie likes peyton all that much
ben: hahahaha
me: so does brett come back next year?
I wouldn’t mind being done with the distraction once and for all
but man would it be nice for Aaron to have a chance to beat him just once
ben: i’m fine with him returning, just so long as the Packers go 2-0 against them and we win the division. And then we beat them in the playoffs. I could get into that.
but jesus, please don’t make a big fucking production of it.
me: he’d never dream of it
just like he’d never dream of running up the score on someone
ben: exactly
me: fuckin guy
can’t wait for the inevitable stories in the minnesota papers about how all the vikings secretly hated him
ben: favre “declined to be interviewed” by Fox. pussy.
ben: did you see all that green in front of favre when he threw that INT?
he could’ve run 10 yards and slid to set up (fellow traitor) longwell
me: no, haven’t watched the replay
that’s weird
it looked like you said “favre” and “run” in the same sentence
my computer must be acting up
ben: nothing weird about it – he’s a gunslinger
ah yes
and he’s not one to run towards green anymore
ooh favre is doing a press conference now
me: liveblog it for me
gimme the money quotes
ben: he said after that huge hit, his ankle was busted up in a way that he had to get right back into the game, because if he rested it he wouldn’t be able to move it
he sounded very dejected
me: did the hit do anything to his brain?
to make him think that throwing back across the field had suddenly become a thing quarterbacks are ever supposed to do?
ben: seems like it
dog park time
go packers
what a maroon, that guy.
me: go pack
Post Your Comment
You must be logged in to post a comment
T/S Members
Log in with your True/Slant account.
In spite of the fact that his INT rate is statistically average, that his INT record is just another volume record that he holds (he’s still second to Warren Moon in career fumbles), it must be noted that the stats fail to convey #4’s special gift for throwing special INT’s, at a special time. Finally, inevitably, Viking Nation gets to share in those special feelings these special moments create. And Brett- for the second time, he ends his career with an interception that costs his team an NFC title- in hindsight, it was as inevitable as (purple) rain. Somewhere, Mike Holmgren is shaking his head, and rolling his eyes.
(I think he really is done this time. Did you see the look on Deanna’s face when he took that leg hit?)
That’s great! Though I DO want the big production. The season ending INT is only part of the experience. Waiting for months while your team doesn’t know what to do while Brett waffles is the other. Enjoy It Vikings fans!
Jeff bercovici and ben; you guys are ZEROES!!! don’t forget boys, favre went further in the playoffs then the pathetic green and gold; he is 10 times the person you and ted thompson and rodgers and mccarthy put together. you guys lost twice to farve. ha ha ha! Brett was brought by the vikes to play a limited role because the vikes had the other pieces to the puzzle. this former packer fan will never dream of coming back with you losers. I’m with the Vikes, the bears and the Lions and wishing you all the misery you deserve! Go Favre Go Vikes!
Your loyalty to the 2nd greatest Green Bay Packer QB is to be commended.
Bart Starr’s post-season record: 9-1
Brett Favre’s post-season record: 13-11
Bart Starr’s post-season QB rating: 104.5
Brett Favre’s post-season QB rating: not so much.
Consider yourself schooled.
In response to another comment. See in context »[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Jeff Bercovici, Tweets Tube. Tweets Tube said: Favre does it again: The Gchat reaction http://bit.ly/7QiOrZ [...]
[...] I had to buy it, mostly because I owe Unpacked correspondent Ben Perlstein a birthday present. After haggling the vendor down a few hundred rubles, I offered him some [...]