Brett Favre Gone, Perhaps With the Wind

Brett Favre is nothing short of an American icon and he leaves the game of football with records for most career TDs, completions, career passing yards, consecutive starts for a starting QB, career wins by a starting QB, addictions to vicodin by a starting QB, interceptions, and number of comparasions to Tony Romo by Tony Kornheiser. He decided make his decision to retire early in the offseason, denying Packer fans the opportunity to fret for months about the future of a Packers team with Aaron Rodgers at the helm. Some say part of the reason he retired was to let the feeling of inevitable Rodgers led defeat sink in long before the season begins. Of course Rodgers will just get hurt right away like he always does so the Packers will inevitably end up being led by last seasons third stringer Craig Nall.

Despite the fact Favre never played for my hometown team the Washington Redskins, he leaves behind a long legacy of throwing interceptions to the Redskins. The first pass of Favre's career was intercepted by Washington Redskins linebacker Andre Collins, who proceeded to return the interception for a touchdown. In the most touching moment of Favre's career for Redskins fans, Favre launched an errant pass directly to the late, great Redskins saftey Sean Taylor. In doing so Favre eclipsed George Blanda's mark of 277 career interceptions.

Favre is also notable for beginning and ending his career much in the style of baseball legend Ted Williams. Williams hit homeruns in his first and last career at bats, while Favre threw interceptions on the opening and final passes of his career. Favre's final pass was intercepted in overtime of the NFC Finals game at home against the New York Giants. The turnover sealed the Packers defeat after a field goal won the game for the Giants.

In spite of all this Favre is still better than John Elway due to Elway's now scandalized use of the Vortex football in the first Superbowl he won, and then the Vortex Howler in his second Superbowl victory. After investigating reports that Elway could throw such footballs clean out of the stadium, the NFL committee of fair play rescinded Elway's Superbowl rings, leaving Favre with 1 career Superbowl win, and Elway with 0.