Brett Favre is basically a marked man these days, and not just because he's going back to Lambeau next week for the obligatory national Favre War III match -- provided his elbow and knees can make it...
... and that sexting his dick around doesn't get him suspended by the National Football League.
Brett Favre is another example of why I have lost most material respect for everybody. He was put up as this pantheon of probity -- as we watched Pac-Man and TO and Dog Killer (his exploits might actually be putting Philadelphia on "The Short List" -- if the league isn't pushing the Bears to get Obama off the owners' backs for the pre-orchestrated 2011 lockout!) disgrace "The Shield".
Who will forget that Monday night when Brett Favre was featured in a poignant pre-game video, with his wife Deanna talking about the last several years and all... And then, in Denver, he throws the winning TD in overtime to put the Packers in prime position for a playoff run...
Well, most of that is water under the bridge now. Brett Favre has spit (and possibly other bodily fluids as well) all over his NFL legacy.
Normally, I would not give this that much more than that, and a cursory question as to whether this might merit a suspension (it does -- but is this worse than what Dog Killer did?? Hence, is whom the league is marketing and whom the league is marketing to making race a factor in all of this? Yes, I'll go there.)
But the reason that I'm posting this on a sports conspiracy blog is that I believe that we have not nearly heard the last of the Dark Side of the Immortal Brett Favre.
And I'm not just talking about more mistresses or Deanna divorcing (I think Deanna had better have a lawyer on call -- stat!).
I'm talking that I believe Brett Favre will eventually be seen in football the same way Pete Rose is seen in baseball.
I am now of the firm belief that Brett Favre has thrown/rigged/taken a dive in/intentionally lost and tanked at least two playoff games, and perhaps another two.
Ridiculous? Most believers of the National Religion would obviously say so.
But Brian Tuohy purports no less than Peyton Manning threw last year's Super Bowl for the league's benefit toward the city of New Orleans in putting on a pretty face after Katrina -- and he didn't do it willingly.
If Manning can do it, such that polls and stories (see the Tuohy link) actually purported the Saints having won the game before it took place, then why not Favre?
Consider the following:
1) NFC Divisional Game -- The infamous "4th and 26" game -- Green Bay Packers at Philadelphia Eagles -- January 11, 2004
The game which really should've struck alarm bells in many Packers' fans over the real loyalties of #4. The Packers were leading 17-14 and had the ball, running methodically to run the clock out and win a berth in the NFC Championship Game.
So it is now 4th down and less than a yard to go, on about Philadelphia's 40 yard line.
Let's examine the situation:
-- You have a purported quarterback with the "mentality of a linebacker".
-- Philadelphia has no time outs, and probably loses the game if the Packers get a first down.
-- If they do punt the ball, they only get a "net" of 20 yards if the punt goes into the end zone.
So the Packers call a time out, decide to punt, and it goes into the end zone.
What happened to the "mentality of a linebacker" which would, in the classic words of his biggest fan, would "get in behind the center and guard, and keep pushing and pushing" until the sticks were moved?
Well, we found that out in the ensuing overtime, after Philadelphia wiped the net 20 yards out in one play, fell back to "4th and 26", and then drove for the tying field goal, when I saw something which had me even questioning if Brett Favre had thrown the game.
I can't find a YouTube video on this one, which is shocking to me. I'm trying to find it, because it, at best, is one of the worst passes ever thrown in the history of the National Football League.
At worst, it's Brett Favre throwing the game.
After a Philadelphia punt, Favre, on the Packers' first play of the overtime, throws an absolute cheapie interception down the field. There was not a Packer receiver within 10-15 yards of where the ball was thrown, but there were certainly two Eagles defensive backs. So much so, that they could set up a return and returned the ball over thirty yards to where one first down gives Akers a chip shot to send Philadelphia to the NFC title game.
All I could think was:
"Did I just watch Brett Favre throw a playoff game? Did I REALLY just watch that??"
Turns out, it probably wasn't the last time.
It might not, also, have been the first.
2) NFC Divisional Playoff -- Green Bay at St. Louis -- January 20, 2002.
The six interception game.
But this is one of the games I'm not so sure about, because St. Louis was clearly the better team. The problem was that they needed the defense (and six Favre interceptions) to score three touchdowns outright, because the offense was doing the Rams no favors.
3) NFC Championship Game -- Favre's last game as a Packer -- New York Giants at Green Bay Packers -- January 20, 2008
Six years to the day after the six interception game, Favre throws yet another key overtime interception to aid the Giants into the Super Bowl against the New England Patriots.
However, I'm not so sure about this game being thrown either -- if the Packers had deigned to make even one reasoned defensive stop on the frozen tundra in the second half, they probably get to the game themselves.
Of course, by then, one can only believe that, for at least two reasons (19-0, and Favre's affinity for the then-Patriots' Randy Moss), he might've thrown that Super Bowl.
Why? Because of one game and one play I AM sure about that he threw...
4) NFC Championship Game -- Minnesota Vikings at New Orleans Saints -- January 24, 2010
I don't need to go much further on this one but the wondrous Minnesota radio call of the play.
Let's take a look at this play rationally.
There are 19 seconds to go in the game. It's 3rd and 15 at the New Orleans 38. New Orleans has no time outs left. The Vikings have one.
Chances are, even if this goes incomplete, the Saints ARE probably getting the ball back anyway.
So Brett Favre goes back to pass. He immediately bootlegs to the far side of the field. He has open field to run after he pumps the ball.
He has a number of options here. He can either:
-- Throw the ball away, if everyone's covered, and, as the Minnesota radio people put so well, they can attempt a 55-yard field goal to send the Vikings to the Super Bowl against the Colts.
-- He can run for a small gain, either sliding or running out of bounds. Since New Orleans has no time outs, chances are they'd try that field goal.
-- or he can do what he did. Throw across his body to a pass only one man can catch.
A man wearing a New Orleans Saints uniform. One of two New Orleans defenders in the vicinity of the ball. Save a receiver he has woefully (and I believe deliberately) underthrown, there isn't another Viking within 10-12 yards of the ball.
"Intercepted. I can't believe what I'm seeing right now."
If you knew, REALLY knew, about Brett Favre, you'd believe it all right. This guy only cares about one thing, and that's Brett Favre. He has screwed over the Packers, screwed over the Jets, and now is screwing over the Vikings.
And I truly believe that if we take a legitimate look at the history of Brett Favre, some people had better ask some hard questions about "The Gunslinger", because I truly believe that he threw the NFC title game last year and at least the Philadelphia playoff game.
Why would he do it? I gave you one reason: It's all about Brett Favre.
Now I'm going to give you a second that people don't think of:
Brett Favre is in the NFL Drug Program for his vicodin addiction, and has been since before his Super Bowl win. (So much so that, had Favre even taken a beer or a champagne upon his Super Bowl win, he'd have been suspended to start the next season.)
Does anyone actually, REALLY, believe that Brett Favre isn't taking something against the NFL Drug Program to keep The Streak going?
Get a good look at that MLB/Interpol article I just posted a couple days ago. Think real hard about how much Brett Favre is about Brett Favre.
This "sexting" story might get him suspended. The truth about Brett Favre's career probably will get him blackballed.
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