Today’s TCOTD comes to you from Rocket. He has written an entire book about the Vikings’ futility and the corresponding hate it has made him feel. Sounds like it might be time for an update. Rocket?

Is it possible that Brett Fav-ray and his ridiculousness have done Aaron Rodgers a favor? Is it possible that, instead of an impossible situation, Brett Fav-ray left Aaron Rodgers with as favorable of a situation as possible?

Let’s examine the evidence. Brett Fav-ray spent the off-season acting like a petulant crybaby. The Packers responded by huffing and puffing and taking their ball and going home. Both sides ended up looking like [redacteds]. However, in the interim, we had a couple of months of the bloated gas bags on the worldwide leader and elsewhere wonking off about how Aaron Rodgers was now in an untenable position and it was the quintessential no-win situation (without, of course, multi-syllabic words of this last sentence). The same gassy blowhards were in universal agreement that every fan in Green Bay was scrupulously studying Rodgers and ceaselessly comparing him
to Fav-ray. All expected the Packer faithful to mercilessly boo Rodgers off of the field after the first incompletion because he wasn’t #4.

I think that we are all in agreement that your average Packers fan is an ill-bred automaton who neither realizes nor cares that s/he is in a cult. But even though the cognitive capacity of your average Packers fan is severely impaired by both genetics and the fermented grape (or some equivalency thereof), I imagine that s/he is still able to string together some collection of thoughts that at least somewhat resembles the following:

Brett Fav-ray left on bad terms and my feelings are still hurt about the situation. The whole world expects me and my brethren to make life impossible for Aaron Rodgers. Therefore, I shall be more open and willing to embrace Aaron Rodgers (even though he’s not #4) because I want to prove to the experts that I am loyal to my team no matter what. [Proprietor note: One of those fans was shown holding the “Farve Who?” sign, and yes it was misspelled].

It is a well-worn cliché that in sports you don’t want to be the guy who replaces the legend, you want to be the guy who replaces the guy who replaces the legend. If Fav-ray had just ridden off into the sunset and stayed retired, I suspect that the cliché would have held true in this situation and the Green Bay fans would have been more apt to turn on Rodgers this year. However, both Fav-ray and the organization created a climate where everybody and their uncle predicted that the Green Bay fans were going to behave irrationally and poorly. I suspect that most of them want to prove the world wrong.

Therefore, I submit to you, the RandBallaholics, that Brett Fav-ray turned what should have been a nearly impossible situation for Aaron Rodgers into an opportunity for a surprisingly positive outcome. It was one last dagger to the heart from ol’ #4.

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