It wasn’t all that many years ago when I remember my friends back in Wisconsin practically worshipping the ground Brett Favre walked on. In fact the city of Green Bay sold it. When I interviewed for a photo editor job at the Green Bay Press Gazette in the mid-1990’s, Lambeau Field was being cut up into pieces and sold to fans.

Brett Favre’s career is sort of going to pieces, like the frozen tundra he used to play on. Now that he’s moved cross-country to be closer to the studios of the David Letterman Show, it doesn’t look like New Yorkers are bowing on the manhole covers, the way the Wisconsinites knelt in the corn fields when Favre walked by.

Can you blame them. Didn’t he throw three interceptions during Monday night’s game. The best game I ever saw him play, was just after his father died. But since then, things haven’t gone so well for him. By the time he left Green Bay, the Cheddarheads had stopped bowing to the Big Cheese.

Then came his voyage to the Big Apple. New Yorkers thought they had it made in the shade with Favre’s arrival. Well, think again.

This is a quarterback who should be sitting next to John Madden in the both at Monday Night Football games. Madden would have someone else to talk to about ice fishing and hunting. It’s time to retire Brett.

-Bob Hammerstrom

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