Best Paragraphs On Brett Favre And Vikings Win Over Green Bay Packers

First off as many know I am not a Green Bay Packers fan.  Most assuredly I am not a Brett Favre fan, now or at any time in the past.  While I was doing other things while the Vikings dusted the Packers Sunday I did follow the news accounts and sports stories that were written after it was over.  Amid many versions of the same story came this rather clever and short snippet that I think was the best of the many I read.  The headline  for the story was to the point……and also made a point.

Favre Settles Grudge With Green Bay

We take it all back. Brett Favre is a grizzled genius. The retirement, the comeback, the retirement, the comeback. Even the season he played for the Jets—just a year detained in customs.

But on Sunday, Mr. Favre got what really wanted: revenge against his wicked ex-employer, the Green Bay Packers. If you were a Packer fan at Lambeau, it had to smart. Sort of like watching your high school girlfriend show up to your 25th reunion—with George Clooney.

The article goes on to say something that I must admit agreeing with.  Reluctantly, but I have to agree with it.   Even though I find Favre off-the-field more child-like than being a mature man, I think the following lines are a balanced assessment of  what he represents today.

He is football’s Jackson Pollock—brilliant, tortured, messy and watchable. Even his best games have moments of maddening recklessness, and for all the overexposure, he is an emotional, compelling superstar, and never more than this season.