By John McMullen
The Phanatic Magazine
Confession time...I love Eli Manning and the New York Giants.
No, I am not a Giants fan and if I being honest I still think Eli stinks, but give the devil its due, Big Blue saved me from two straight weeks of incessant Brett Favre slurping.
For that...I will forever be grateful.
I'm not sure when criticizing Favre became an indictable offense in this country. Somewhere between his vicodin addiction and his many personal travails I'm sure. Still, the endless lovefest borders on the absurd.
Favre wasn't always like this. In my years in Minneapolis, I had the pleasure of seeing him play twice a year and it was breathtaking. In his prime, Favre was one of the best ever -- second only to Joe Montana in my mind.
Year in and year out, the Vikings had more talent than the Green Bay Packers but when people asked for my prediction, I always went with Favre. He was that good.
Today, I feel silly for ever lauding Favre -- a pariah that may even trump T.O. as the most selfish player in the NFL.
He might not be doing situps in the driveway but he's held the Packers hostage for the past few offseason as football's version of Roger Clemens.
Sure, he had a nice comeback season in 2007 when he was surrounded by a number of receivers able to overcome his penchant for throwing into double coverage two to three times a game. Yep, those same "playmakers" he shoved under the bus last offseason while pining for Randy Moss.
And, his apologists that dot the network airwaves look more and more foolish when defending him at the expense of every other player on his team -- most of which actually listen to their coaches and try to carry out an assignment properly.
Of course the future Hall of Famer's status in the game makes it impossible for his own coaches to call him out for his willful ignorance of their game plan -- something every other NFL signal caller would get lambasted for on a daily basis.
In the woeful NFC, the Packers should be preparing to be sacrificed at the hands of the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII if Favre just managed his own ego in the NFC Championship Game.
I mean, let's face it. Eli is not as unstoppable as Citizen Watch would have you believe. In fact, he's the fourth option at the Manning family pick-up games, a notch below Cooper. So, instead of waiting for the patented Manning playoff implosion, every one's favorite gunslinger just hurls the ball into coverage and waits for his minions to blame his young receivers or a case of the sniffles.
Simply put, Favre’s play in the NFC title game was the ultimate act of selfishness on the football field and forget mapquesting Glendale, Favre is now preparing for his upcoming nuptials.
No, he's not renewing his vows with Deanna... He's finally making things official with Joe Buck.
Slurp, slurp, slurp.
6 comments:
Keep it up with the Eli bashing. You are going to choke on his football before it's all said and done..... Look for it.
Favre is great. i never heard of you.
Hey, loved your "Slurp" piece on Brett Favre, and I couldn't agree more. I'm an Eagles' fan myself, but I was rooting for Eli and the Giants as well...
Keep up the good work...
HEY YOU F@#%&N PUNK ASS B#$&@%,
HOW THE F@%# DO YOU DARE SAY THAT S#$% ABOUT BRETT FAVRE, THE GREATEST QUARTERBACK IN NFL HISTORY, AT 38 YEARS OLD HE TOOK THE YOUNGEST TEAM IN FOOTBALL ON HIS BACK AND LED THEM ONE POINT AWAY FROM A SUPER BOWL BIRTH, YOU SUCK D&$ AND ARE THE BIGGEST F#$ IN THE WORLD. IN THE SAME GOD DAMN YEAR FAVRE LOST HIS FATHER, HIS BROTHER IN LAW, AND HIS WIFE HAD CANCER, NOT TO MENTION HURRICANE KATRINA RIPPING THROUGH HIS HOMETOWN, AND HE STILL CAME BACK AND STILL PLAYED BETTER THAN EVER, HE HAS PLAYED 275 STRAIGHT GAMES, NEVER MISSED ONE IN HIS CAREER, MOST WIN'S, MOST TD'S, MOST PASSING YARDS, MOST COMPLETIONS, 3 STRAIGHT MVP'S , 2 STRAIGHT SUPER BOWLS,
SHUT UR F#$%*% MOUTH U WORTHLESS PIECE OF S$%@.
-Chris Soffee
Dear John,
Your "slurp, slurp, slurp" article on Brett Favre is the greatest article ever written. I've felt the same way my entire life. I grew up in Minneapolis and while I agree Favre's a great player, he's simply all too glorified in the media. I wrote almost a mirror article to all the guys in my fantasy football league. It brought up how Favre puts his GM on the fence every offseason and how he simply ignores gameplans by slinging it downfield. It also makes me sick listning to Joe Buck or John Madden during a packer game.
You might enjoy this... In November Adrian Peterson broke the single game rushing record with 296 yards on 30 carries. Apparently that's not good enough to make the "3 best" segment on NBC's Football Night in America. They instead chose to go with John Lynch, Antonio Cromartie, and you guessed it.... Brett Favre.
Favre's 360 yard 2 TD and 2 INT gets more media attention than the single greatest rushing effort of all time.
With that said, thank you so much for writing that article. It's very refreshing to have a sportswriter take an honest look at #4.
Thank you,
Joe Smaby
yeah favres shit good call
- soffee c
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