End of an era: Brett Favre officially files retirement papers

I respected Favre a lot when he was in GB, and he was my second favorite QB during his time there. But his crap of shifting teams, throwing GB under the bus for NY, then throwing NY under the bus for Minnesota really down graded my opinion of him (granted both GB and NY got better after he left oddly enough).

I really could care less with anything about him anymore.

And my thoughts on this are he should have just walked away when he was in Green Bay.

Yeah he had the that run in 2009 but to play the majority of his career in Green Bay and end his career with their biggest rival sort of tarnishes his legacy to me.

I think if he would have walked away then he would have been considered a legendary player (and may still be) instead of the guy who couldn’t make up his mind for years and then had the sexting allegations tied on as a footnote.

I’d put him in the 5-10 range probably.

I will always remember Favre’s performance on MNF the day after his father passed away. To me, that was the single greatest performance I’ve ever seen by a QB.

I will always remember that Brett Favre, and will promptly forget the “will I retire, or won’t I retire…nah, I think I’ll just text Jenny my nutsack” Brett Favre.

No, he isn’t the greatest ever, but he’s the toughest guy to play and is a HOF lock.

QB that you’d want on your team as far as passion, and durability. It was fun watching the guy play for all those years. Hopefully he can put his life back together and ride off into the sunset at peace.

One of the best hands down. I’m the kind of guy that can’t put a number on each specific guy but rather that each one was a great person in their era. Montana, Marino, Farve, Elway. ALL LEGENDS!

I might be a bit jaded though. /sarcasm/

He’s one of the best ever. I don’t think the best ever, but one of the best. I loved watching him play. He played without a short-term memory, like a guy playing a video game. It was fantastic.

Was, is, and always will be the greatest, but noone can deny that favre was right up there with Montana, Staubach, Unitas, Marino, and Elway as one of the greatest to ever grace us with his presence on the field. Very few have ever had such an impact on the game. I will miss the times when we could watch sportcenter to see what he had done on the field and what kind of acrobatic play he had pull out of nowhere to score the winning TD. Even with all the retiring nonsense and the sexting bologna, I still hate to see him go. It almost feels like the end of an era. We had the pre-Favre era, the Farve era, and now we are about to embark on the post-Faver era. I say good luck to you Bret and I look forward to your induction into the Hall of Fame.

Simply because his body just can’t handle any more, I’ll wait till next season to officially close the book on him. Heck, he’s retired and un-retired more times than Rocky Balboa!! Maybe he should make a film saga about his football career, just like Rocky, he retires, then comes back, retires then comes back, ….

Where he was the mvp for the 2020 or something superbowl and was like “i think i’ll retire, well I dont know”. I’m 22 and i can honestly say i have never seen a Farveless NFL. Deff. one of the best i have ever seen with my own eyes or in film i’ve seen of past greats.

Brett Favre might as well take the record-book home with him, because it’s going to be there for quite a while.

The last 3 years have completely ruined my perception of the man. He would have been a top 5 great in my book, but the greats know when to retire. They also know when they are being shameless attention whores.

I won’t believe any of this retirement talk until he actually is still sitting around his house by the end of the 2011 season.

Way to take yourself from being a legend to a punchline Brett.