Brett Favre
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UPDATED SEPTEMBER 15, 2009: I was in Green Bay for the Bears and Packers game on September 13, 2009. The Favre hatred is everywhere to be seen. I got there a little early since it was a night game, and I watched the Vikings-Browns game in the Bay City Smokehouse just east of Lambeau Field. The place was packed with Green Bay fans and you'd think it was a Browns bar! Unfortunately for them Brett played a conservative game and the Vikings won.
Just a block east of the Smokehouse is Bret Favre's Tailgate steakhouse in which he owns about 25% according to the bartender. He stated that business fell off some when Favre went to the Jets, but it has really dived now Favre is with the hated Vikings. The street west of the steakhouse is officially Favre Trail, but fans have covered it with a home-made wooden sign "Traitors Trail." I saw lots of #4 GB Favre jerseys with re-made messages--some obscene, some not.
Green Bay is a gritty, blue color town, and the folks take football seriously.
In Favre's place I was sitting at the bar, and some Canadians from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, were next to me and we struck up a conversation. They come to 2 or 3 games a year although Sault Ste. Marie is not that far away; it's just on the other side of the UP.
There were loads of great anti-Favre tee shirts and such. The weather was fantastic. We wore cut-offs and shorts, no jackets, to a night game at Green Bay! The temperature at Green Bay during the day hit 90 degrees.
UPDATED JULY 24, 2009. Favre has taken an option on a condo in a tony Twin Cities suburb. If he dons Viking purple, I gotta land a ticket at Lambeau for the Pack-Vikings game in 2009.
ORIGINAL COMMENT: I have seen him in person, and he is as steady as a rock even when he gets picked as he does often enough. I am fortunate to have seen such greatness.