Eat My Sports: Favre’d again

Every year we approach the end of the football season with our thoughts on the Super Bowl, the upcoming draft, and of course Brett Favre’s impending retired, un-retired, retired, un-retired dance. It gets old, it gets oversaturated, I love it. Favre adds drama in the middloe of February where sports as a whole goes to die. But before we even get there take a look at this season and admire the guy for what he did.

Yes, I think Favre should audition to be the next lead-singer of Me First and The Gimme Gimmes, but look back at Minnesota last year. Remember them? They were the team that couldn’t decide between Gus Frerotte and Tarvaris Jackson to lead their team in the playoffs. Essentially the Vikings were about as close to being a Super Bowl contender as Madonna is to being a virgin, Favre lessened the ever-widening gap.

For 99.9% of the season Favre was every bit as good as he was from his early gun-slinging days in Green Bay, but better. Favre played mistake-free ball while still reminding everyone around the country why we love watching this guy play football. Hiss TD to INT ratio was the best of his career, and he turned pedestrian at best wide receivers into Pro Bowlers.

Sure, you can scoff at his waivering back and forth, and bring up the fact that yet again, a late INT cost his team a legitimate shot at the Super Bowl. Ignore Adrian Peterson’s case of fumbleitis, ignore Minnesota’s complete inability to block anyone, ignore Brad Childress’ idiotic play calling when his team was obviosly not in field goal range and opted to run the ball as opposed to passing for the yardage before it was too late. Yeah, blame it on Favre.

Favre’s interception cost his team a chance at winning the game, but it did not lose it for them. Just pay attention to one reason this guy is great: in 2009 Favre carried a team to the brink of glory, a team that without him had no legitimate shot, like he did in Green Bay, like he did as a Jet. But you know, go ahead and take the cheap shots now, because you know, not taking one is so  passé.

Top five game you can bet on this week:
1. NFC (pick ’em) over AFC

After nearly everyone else in the AFC has backed out of playing in the All-Pro bash, don’t be surprised when Rex Grossman wins MVP honors.
Last Week: 1-1
The Season:  41-38-1

SeriouslyLions ‘09 (17-1)
Change you can believe in
W 48-3 against New Orleans Saints in NFC Championship Game
Schools: 18-22 306 yards 5 TD, 3 rushes 47 yards
McB: 12 rushes 74 yards, 8 rec 99 yards TD, 5 KR 58 yards, 3 PR 51 yards
Julie:  4 rec 130 yards TD
Rick:  8 tckl, 2 INT TD
Chugs:  2-2 FG (long of 36) 6-6 XP

SeriouslyPowerRankings
2. Indianapolis Colts (16-2)
Did anyone else notice how ho-hum Peyton Manning was in accepting the AFC Championship trophy? Is anyone else as pissed as I am that because the Colts made it to the Super Bowl there will be appraently 75,000 less commercials that could possibly have Manning in them?
1. New Orleans Saints (15-3)
Enjoy your hangover, you deserve it.