America has voted, and Favre is a backup
Posted on August 5th, 2008 – 1:55 PMBy Michael Rand
An ESPN.com poll asks: Would you rather see your favorite team start the season with Brett Favre or its current starting QB. The result (as of 93,309 votes in): 43 percent of America wants Favre, 57 percent wants “other guy.” Broken down by their handy “map” feature, we see that 60 percent of Minnesota wants Favre, while 69 percent of Wisconsin wants Favre. All those numbers — which we were alerted to by Mike M. — seem somewhat strange. First, how quickly a nation turns on a legend. Yeah, he’s acted like a Grade A clown, but unless you root for the Colts, Patriots or a handful of other teams, why wouldn’t you want Favre? Second, can it really be that the love for Brett Favre in Wisconsin is merely 9 percent greater than it is here (yeah, we know the math works a little differently, but you get our drift)? Is that a commentary on Aaron Rodgers vs. Tarvaris Jackson or is it something much more?
Oh, and many thanks to Sassbottom for making for us that screen grab of ESPN.COM’S WALL-TO-WALL FAVRE SCREAMATHON. Sweet mercy. And those were just stories posted in the last 12 minutes*. (Note: We don’t know how to make screen grabs. We fail at the Internet).
*May or may not be true.
13 Responses to "America has voted, and Favre is a backup"
(Note: We don’t know how to make screen grabs. We fail at the Internet).
Go to a web site, press the “Print Screen” key, and, usually, a program will come up where you can do screen captures. For example: my laptop brings up “PrintKey 2000″ when I take such action
Minnesota is now 69% pro-Favre, while Wisco is 67%. Minnesota loves Favre more than Wisconsin. Hell hath frozen over.
I actually heard this referred to as FavreGate on the WWL yesterday. Could it get much worse?
I vote we boycott all posts about Favre until there is some sort of solution. Do I have a second?
Yeah, you could do what Dave MN suggests and *hope* it works, or you could just get a Mac. Sheesh. Which came first: “PrintKey 2000″ or the Commodore 64?
> Why wouldn’t you want Favre?
39 years old, one decent season out of the last three, penchant for debilitating interceptions?
Weird how the NFC North States all prefer Favre! Who knew no one had faith in Rodgers, T-Jack, Grossman, Orton, or Kitna?
PrintKey 2000 sounds like it was made in 1986 when the year 2000 was still a magical place of flying cars and robots.
My lunch break consisted of eating tater-tot hotdish, downloaading and then listening to The Hold Steady, and then updating my facebook profile.
newbie
At least the Bears have 2 options plus Favre which makes 3. What could go wrong?
Sorry I just didn’t want to talk about Favre.
touche’, jama.
None of those guys have proven they CAN’T get the job done in big games! (Save for the ‘06 Superbowl, and ‘07 NFC Championship game.)
I’d like to see him Play for the Vikings just so I can see him break the team record for most single season interceptions. He for sure could do it for the Bears, but they’ll still have Orton and Grossman…either one of them with re-break that record when Favre retires again next year.
My long standing theory is:
Favre for 3years, then John David Booty beyond = Vikings Dynasty… am I right?… hello?…
