You ever get the feeling that Brett Favre is trying to be John Lovitz’s Tommy Flanagan?

“So I had the surgery, and then uh, yeah, a Minnesota Vikings trainer just happened to show up at my house to help me rehab it.  Yeah, that’s the ticket.”

“And I get email all the time, telling me I’m great.  Yeah, that’s it. ”

I watched the Joe Buck interview (here’s parts one and two, if they’re still up on Youtube).  You’ll have to have seen it if what I’m about to say is going to make any sense.

I’ll try to make this kill swift and painless:

Green Bay didn’t name the Superbowl trophy, the league did.  Lombardi only ever lost one playoff game, and the trophy was named after him because he won 7 league championships and his persona transcended the game.  Brett Favre won only one, gave away one and cost the team a trip to a third, and his persona, that of hillbilly diva, is at best going to net him his name on a building at some 13th grade school in Mississippi.

Favre told Greta Van Susteren a year ago that the reason he wanted to go to the Vikings was to play in the division to have a chance to stick it to his former team and Ted Thompson.  Any variations from that story now can only be considered spin doctoring.  The “lure of a team with a chance to make a deep playoff run” has been played.  The Jets were considered to be loaded for the Superbowl when Favre got there.  Now they have a new coaching staff and a rookie swimsuit model under center.

Favre and his agent lied about the phonecalls to Bevel and Childress last year.  Favre lied to the Jets when he asked for his release.  He gave an oscar-worthy performance when he retired the first time, when all along he was plotting his revenge.  He lied to Trent Dilfer via text message (ok, I’d probably lie to Dilfer to, just to fuck with him).

I think the only thing you can ever believe from Favre anymore is what’s out on the field.  What he gives between the hashes is honest and pure.  Sometimes it’s ugly and gut-wrenching, and he can’t give as much as he could a decade ago, but it is the true Favre.  Everything else about him?  Bullshit.

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