Mighty Brettsy Strikes Out
There's not much I can add to the Warrior Monk's taunting comments on yesterday's Packer game. Although I am no longer the passionate Purple fan that I was in the past, I still take great joy in watching the Green and Gold fold. At times a Packers loss can almost be sweeter than a Vikings victory. Yesterday was one of those times.
And as much as the devastated Packer fans will lament the blown fourteen point lead, the inexcusable failure of the Green Bay defense to stop the Eagles on fourth and twenty six, and second guess the fourth down decisions of Mike Sherman, in their heart of hearts they know that the game was lost because Brett Favre, the sainted one, coughed it up. As the Warrior Monk acknowledged, Favre is a great quarterback, probably one of the ten best to ever play the game. But he is not, despite what die hard Packer fans may think, the best of all time. That fact was once again driven home in yesterday's game.
Favre's gun slinging, risk taking, style has worked more often than not in the past, and is one of the key reasons for his success. But it is also the source of his greatest failings. In overtime, in the playoffs, you CANNOT make the throw that he did yesterday. It was a welcome relief to hear the game announcers, who typically slather Favre with fawning praise, pause for a moment and actually criticize his incredibly poor decision.
The Packers missed a golden opportunity to knock off the #1 seed in the NFC and a chance to advance to the Super Bowl. You gotta believe that had they won yesterday, they would have carried over that momentum into Carolina, and from there to Houston.
But today there is no joy in Cheeseville. For Mighty Brettsy struck out.
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