I have to preface this article with the fact that I’m a Chicago Bears fan, always have been and always will be, now with that said this is the first year that I have been actually cheering for Old #4. When I lived in Wisconsin and was forced to watch him destroy, embarrass and confuse my beloved Bears as a member of the Packers during his dominance in the mid 90’s thru 2007 I couldn’t wait to see him retire. I had to put up with the 3 MVP’s, the Super Bowl win, and the countless taunts of my Packer loving friends while my Bears toiled with no-name quarterbacks and mediocre seasons (That was a hard sentence to write because the pain is still buried deep).

Most people I have talked to about Favre usually have very strong opinions: either they like the guy or they don’t…it’s that clear cut…just ask the sulking, pouting Packer fans who I had the displeasure of watching a game with earlier this year, as the Packers game was on TV so was the Vikings game and the chant echoing throughout the bar “Break his legs, hurt the traitor, kill him”…Wow that’s a nice holiday wish, to cheer for a career ending injury for the player who put your team on the map…think of the men who played QB in Green Bay before Favre (Give yourself a gold star if you can name more than 2 of these immortal players: Don Majkowski, Randy Wright, Mike Tomczak, Blair Kiel, Jerry Tagge, Allan Risher, David Whitehurst, Lynn Dicky, John Hadl…not exactly a hot bed of talent there).

That’s why what is going on this year with Favre is really remarkable. In the NFL you are OLD at 30; think about that for a minute, if you come out of college at age 22 that means you have about 5 to 7 years to prove your worth in the NFL before you are targeted for replacement.

We are not here to rehash the whole Brett Favre saga as ESPN and every other media outlet beat that horse to death, no we are here to celebrate what he has done this year as QB of the Minnesota Vikings. Look at these numbers to date prior to tonight’s game against Arizona: 2,874 YDS, 24 TD’s, only 3 INT’s with a QB rating of 112.1,his team is 10-1….and he is 40 YEARS OLD…I don’t care how old you are those are great numbers, actually better than his numbers when he was named league MVP. I don’t know if there is something in the water in Minnesota (they are the land of 10,000 lakes or at least that’s what their license plates say) or that their talent level is that much better than the Jets or Packers but obviously he is not done, washed up, or just too old.

I guess there might be something to the saying that, “40 is the new 20.”

- Jeff Powers

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