Wrong about Favre? An epic fail enables me to rest my case

retired on the lake

January 25th, 2010
1:09 am

poor brett

tyler

January 25th, 2010
1:12 am

The most overrated athlete of our team , huh? Come on now- when you are being all dramatic- do a little proofreading first.

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January 25th, 2010
1:18 am

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sheri

January 25th, 2010
1:22 am

Finally a sports writer to tell it like it is!

Paul in RDU

January 25th, 2010
1:25 am

Mark – I’m not sure that I would call Favre THE most overrated athlete of our time, but I have to agree with you on the sycophantic behavior of some of the pundits. On the broadcast tonight, Terry Bradshaw called him the greatest quarterback ever. Talk about hyperbole.
Favre wasn’t even the best quarterback playing today – that would be Archie’s eldest son – and putting Favre ahead of Montana, Elway, Aikman… is completely over the top.

Jeremy

January 25th, 2010
1:28 am

YOU ARE CRAZY!!!! no way brett lost that game for them. He played a hell of a game, if we could have held on to the ball more we would have won. Also, why is a pass interference (for the saints) call made when the ball is about 10-15 feet over the guys head no chance he was going to catch it, or how did he make that one catch be called a catch when it hit the ground??? I think I smelled home cooking nothing brett could do about that. Please come back next year and whoop some ass like you did this year.

al

January 25th, 2010
1:29 am

This guy is an idiot! Two fumbles in scoring position was what cost this team the win. Change this to Adrain Peterson is the most overrated player. Your such an unknown writer you had to bash Brett Favre to get some attention.

CStanleyRun

January 25th, 2010
1:29 am

Alright, the man made some mistakes, but his skill is unrivaled. All in all he led the Vikings to one of the best seasons they’ve had in recent memory. Props to Brett.

Ron Johnson

January 25th, 2010
1:29 am

You are my hero, Mark Bradley.

Matt

January 25th, 2010
1:32 am

How can you put all this on Favre?

Adrian Peterson fumbled the ball 3 times, and the hand off incident wasn’t even Favre’s fault, it was Peterson’s.

If anything, Adrian Peterson is the most overrated running back.

Josh

January 25th, 2010
1:34 am

I’m sorry but the most over rated athlete of our time is far from Brett Farve. I don’t know what they’re feeding you down in the ATL but it obviously isn’t helping you or your sports writing. If you look at the game as a whole, it really comes down to the whole team turning the ball over…over….and well over again. You can blame Farve all you want, but in the end he put them in a position to lengthen their lead many times in that game and the team coughed it up. Farve tried to make a play to save his team from themselves, its a shame he made the wrong choice. But whatever, you’re just a windbag.

Luke

January 25th, 2010
1:35 am

this is stupid, you know how many records the man holds and you’re saying he’s the most overrated athlete of our time? b.s, yea he blew the game but he still got the team to the NFC championship game..I myself am a packers fan and hate the fact he signed with the vikings but the man is a great quarterback and has/had a great football career.

Jacqueline

January 25th, 2010
1:35 am

Favre is not the sole player to blame for the Viking loss. There were too many dropped/fumbled balls, and poor interference mistakes that the secondary made. Favre did pass the ball for an interception seconds before overtime that will standout in many sports reporters eyes, however I doubt that the Vikings would have made it to the NFC Championship game w/o Favre. One commentator stated that Favre should have run the ball himself, but with a couple of Saints defenders in closing distance, that would have been a “make a wish” moment for the defense (hard hit and possible fumble there!). A poor choice for Favre, yes. But–

not the sole reason for the loss.

nball

January 25th, 2010
1:36 am

If Brett Favre retires now, he can look back at his legacy…

His legacy of leaving teams with his last pass attempt being an interception!

Falcons
Packers
Jets
Vikings

Honestly though… he’s really good at choking.

nball

January 25th, 2010
1:38 am

Oh, and all these people saying that Favre isn’t the most overrated of our time… who is then?

Matt

January 25th, 2010
1:39 am

Brett Favre just got caught up in the moment and tried to win his team the game when he should have played it safe and ran a couple of yards.

sandersize

January 25th, 2010
1:41 am

Mark Bradley you knew it i know something 2 your an idiot who must not of paid attention to the game tonight or the season as a whole. Please find a new job, maybe one that will fire you when you run your mouth without basis. Favre is one of the best QB’s of all time, he makes everyone who plays with him better, Minnesota had a bad day as a team and the loss was not because of int’s, it was part of the many number of mistakes. Brett kept getting them back into contention and they came up short. THATS THAT PLEASE FIND A NEW JOB, the first amendment is a great thing unless it has to do with reading your column

sandersize

January 25th, 2010
1:49 am

Mark your an idiot are you really a sports writer? In this bad economy I am really surprised you are kept on any ones payroll, Favre kept them in the game and is one of the best QB’s of all time. They had a bad game as a team and thats that.

JT

January 25th, 2010
1:49 am

You are such a hater. Man already has a super bowl ring. It is obvious that he cares about his job, his sport and winning more than just about any other team sport athlete in America. He gets the sh*t kicked out of him, gets up grinning and asks for some more. Dude had an amazing season at the age of 40, kicked a** last week and threw for more than 300 yards in the NFC championship game. On the last play in regulation, if he doesnt make a play the Vikes are still out of FG range. There is a reason that people follow BF. The man has earned respect the hard way. Appreciate him for what he is. The sport will be poorer when he does hang them up. Articles like this are simply petty.

Robards

January 25th, 2010
1:56 am

Well said Mark, well said! Over/under on retirements is 1.5. How the Vikings lost that game I’ll never know. Beautiful anyway!

RLH

January 25th, 2010
2:00 am

Mark,
Brett didn’t lose the game!! Brett didn’t play a great game, but he played a good game. Peterson fumbled the ball 3 times and you blame Brett?? I wish he had spent his whole career here in Atlanta and we could have had a lot to be excited about all these years. I hope he comes back and plays another year, like him or not, Brett is fun to watch play. Overrated?????? He owns every record there is to have and he is one tough SOB. He was playing in a game that most other QB’s would have sat out once he injured his ankle. Brett took the Vikings a long ways with a poor OL. Truth is if he had a better HC he would be playing in the Super Bowl this year. I really like most of your artlicles but this one is pretty much just STUPID!!

Peter

January 25th, 2010
2:02 am

He may just be the most overrated of all time. Sure he has a ring, but so does Trent Dilfer. What a dumb play to end the season and possible his career. He had at LEAST 10 yards in front of him if he hangs on to it. He missed a chance to totally change his legacy. He could have been the guy who scrambled to set up the game winning FG despite an injured ankle, but now he’s the idiot who attempted a pass that most high schoolers have enough sense not to try. Great season, Favre. Too bad you went back to normalcy.

Robards

January 25th, 2010
2:08 am

“So does Trent Dilfer.” Don’t forget Brad Johnson.

tyler

January 25th, 2010
2:08 am

You could have thanked me for the correction there- Mark. Just trying to help. I will say this though- you can’t hold that many records and be considered overrated. Period. Favre is a top 10 guy (of all time). You can hate him b/c he’s a bit of prima donna or an attention whore but you can’t argue with the facts. 300plus straight starts, numerous passing records, a Super Bowl ring and an outstanding acting performance in There’s Something about Mary. The guy’s done it all….

What He Said

January 25th, 2010
2:09 am

Prior to the game today I knew it was highly probable that Favre would throw a critical interception at the key point in the game – and he did. He’s been so consistent in throwing interceptions at exactly the wrong time that counting on him to lose the game was a no-brainer. Bradley is correct – most overrated player, and I too am SO GLAD not to have to listen to two weeks of Brett Blather!!

Mr. Obvious (& Favre Hater)

January 25th, 2010
2:09 am

Brett Favre may be a “failure” in the NFL at the moment, but at least he will always still be superior to that low-life, law-ignoring, steroid-gulping, wealth-squandering, dog-torturing, poor excuse for a QB and overall failure of a human being known as Mike Vick.

Seen Mr. Vick in any nationwide commercials lately?

I am sure we all wait, with breathless anticipation, for Mr. Vick’s induction ceremony into the Professional Dogfighting Hall of Fame, because that is the only Hall of Fame he will ever experience.

Jen

January 25th, 2010
2:10 am

I also caught the editorial proofreading error, Tyler. Perhaps Mr. Bradley was too caught up in the rush to publish the first editorial denouncing Brett Favre’s ability to notice little things like creating coherent sentences. Judging solely from his picture above, I would say Bradley, a 55 or 60 year old man is obviously so sorely insecure in his own manhood that he feels the need to belittle Brett Favre who, among many other things, has recently become the oldest quarterback to win an NFL game. But I digress. On what authority does Bradley have the right to rip apart Favre? I suppose it may be his marginal involvement in the sporting community as a “journalist”, as (again) judging by his picture, the man appears to be athletically challenged, so we can probably rule out any professional career. He, like most of us, probably enjoys the games from the comfort of his own living room couch. Maybe he should spend some time criticizing other players in the NFL who’ve actually done something wrong like you know, his own city’s Mike Vick or Plaxico, or Pacman, etc.(instead of Favre who has brought in the most revenue from sale of his jersey for the past 2 years. In 2008, actually, Brett Favre’s’ Jets’ jersey was the #1 selling jersey, followed closely by his Packers’ jersey–a team he didn’t even play for! and in 2009 his Vikings’ was the #1 seller), Get a life, Bradley. And check your facts while you’re at it (as well as the syntax of your “articles”). If Brett were overrated, why is everyone devouring his merchandise?! You’re trying to become relevant in the rough world of sports journalism by creating a controversial article but it’s not coming off as genuine. You just seem like a loser/hater for rooting against a 40 year-old man who has created nothing but competition, passion, and excitement for the game of football for the past 19 seasons. For the record, the most over-rated player of our time is Donovan McNabb of the Philadelphia Eagles. However, my arguments for this are beyond the scope of this post…

Reptillicide

January 25th, 2010
2:12 am

You are a giant douchebag Bradley, if you truly believe that Favre is the most overrated athlete of our time. But you write stuff to incite people, not to be right.

The correct answer to “who is the most overrated athlete of our time” is without a doubt, St. Timothy.

Reptillicide

January 25th, 2010
2:12 am

Adrian Peterson fumbled the ball 3 times and you’re putting this loss on Favre. Unbelievable.

tyler

January 25th, 2010
2:16 am

You could at least thank me for pointing out the typing error there Mark. Also- being a little harsh on Favre aren’t you? The guy owns most of the passing records in NFL history- overrated? No way. Careless? Maybe. His numbers are awesome- his winning percentage is pretty incredible too. Not to mention his acting ability- There’s Something about Mary is a masterpiece. Come on Bradley- give the guy some love.

Bears' Fan

January 25th, 2010
2:19 am

As a Bears’ fan, I cannot stand Brett Farve, but I respect him. Yet, while everyone is bashing Mr. Bradley, he does have a point. Farve has been throwing that “clutch time” interception for some years, to the point where you know it was going to happen. Farve may not be the most overrated, but he’s not the best quarterback ever.Also, although he did not lose the game, when he had a chance to win it, he did not. With Brett, you get the good and the bad, sometimes in the same game

Gawdfather

January 25th, 2010
2:30 am

Overrated? The man is a damn legend. 40 years old, and had his best season ever, beating the Packers twice and almost getting his team to the Super Bowl. His consecutive starts streak makes Cal Ripken look like a slacker. Favre was getting blown up all game and he hung in and gave his team a chance to win. Bad pick, but so be it. He proved me and every one else wrong this year. Overrated my eye.

mayorofponce

January 25th, 2010
2:34 am

WHAT?! He’s the toughest man to ever hold an oblonged object. Fumbles, bad defense, and oh yeah… him getting absoluletly hammered on concret about 12 times as well. Never missed an NFL start and hes a loser? He threw a pic? wow. Mark, yer off on this one… just a bad play… he only threw 7 pics all season.

Bretts a winner. Yer a guy with a internet connection.

Peter

January 25th, 2010
2:35 am

I found the clip here if you want to watch before it’s removed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whk0VTuMAdU

It looks like one of my Madden plays where I press triangle instead of square.

sophie

January 25th, 2010
2:44 am

You really are a jerk…and one who is wrong at that…pitiful journalism..

Steve

January 25th, 2010
3:24 am

Sad ass journalist just trying to make some money and get people to talk about his work. No respect.

Mike

January 25th, 2010
3:36 am

Pretty silly article, really. That was a heroic game to watch. If the vikings team maintained better ball control, they would have won.

Props to Favre for dramatically improving the Vikings this year.

Congratulations to New Orleans for their great game.

People who are Favre haters may have been around the game too long, need to get away for a while. That was a great game to watch yesterday!

DangerousDan87

January 25th, 2010
3:41 am

overrated? not sure about that. I think the Saints defense made Farve make a poor decision on the interception when he could’ve run a few yards to give his kicker a better look. The Saints knocked Farve down 15 times and he didn’t want to get hit again… threw against the grain, in the middle of the field, for the INT. I’m glad the Saints won and I wish I could be in the French Quarter this week and Miami next week. Those guys know how to party !

BRETT FAVRE SUPERBOWL !

January 25th, 2010
3:47 am

He blew it. Big time! It was awesome..

TheAntiMe

January 25th, 2010
3:48 am

Brett Favre may be the most overated athlete of our time but he is definitely the most underrated Drama Queen of our time.

IlliniDawg

January 25th, 2010
3:59 am

Most over-rated athlete of our time? Really???!!! I mean MOST over-rated? Are you serious?

How about this list for jocks who never lived up to their hype (and/or were exposed for frauds):

Barry Bonds
Allen Iverson
Mike Vick
Marion Jones
Bode Miller
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Andy Roddick

and then for me, what I think has been by far the single most over-rated, over-hyped, over-adulated athlete in the last 20 years….

Michelle Wie! I will never forget the day I heard Golic and Greenie on “Mike and Mike in the Morning” proclaim that Michelle Wie was THE next truly legit superstar on the horizon. And she hasn’t won a single tourney since. Nothing – nada – zilch, The lady plain flat out sucks. And is/was so much more over-rated than Favre ever has been.

Dawg

January 25th, 2010
4:06 am

Favre took his team to overtime in NFC championship game. Alot of qbs at home watching. So how were u not wrong about him? Without question, one of the greats of our time. Look forward to next season. Mark Bradley is without question, the most ignorant and overpaid writer in the world. Go cover arts & crafts or something.

Geez....

January 25th, 2010
4:12 am

Favre had a great year.

The most overrated sportswriter if our time.

Maybe the guy is a ahole but he had a great season. I don’t think that he made the five fumbles.

Here's some more hate, Bradley

January 25th, 2010
4:17 am

Grumble, grumble, sorry journalist, u can’t write anything, grumble, everybody knows Favre’s the greatest, snort, grumble, now i can’t sleep, etc.

And another thing

January 25th, 2010
4:19 am

Your pic doesn’t seem to be cutting it with Jen, Mark.

lanier

January 25th, 2010
4:39 am

Cant agree Mark I think the most overated NFL player ever played right here. This moron didnt even know the playbook. Played a few snaps for Philly this year.

Brett Favre's Legacy: Choke Artist

January 25th, 2010
4:40 am

Wow, how many times is Brett Favre going to throw the most idiotic of interceptions in playoffs games? Two years ago he threw a really dumb interception that let the New York Giants waltz into the Super Bowl. Several years ago he threw one of the dumbest interceptions I’ve seen in the history of the playoffs to give the Philadelphia Eagles a pass to the Super Bowl.

On the last play the Vikings had in regulation, had he just stumbled forward for a few yards on a wide open field and given his kicker a chance to make the field goal the Vikings might have won. But instead, Favre didn’t give his team a chance and committed the cardinal sin of throwing the ball across the field in good winning position.

Yes, his teammates fumbled and stumbled too on offense. What is with Adrian Peterson not being able to hang on to the ball? But Favre, in the most critical of situations, when even no gain would have been better than an interception, turned the ball over.

How sad

Jawja Gal

January 25th, 2010
5:12 am

I Mr Brett Favre didn’t want any scrutiny, he should have stayed retired. He knew this kinda of press would be coming his way, esp. after the way last year with the Jets!

I will admit, Favre did better than I thought he would in the reg season…..but hey, he’s no spring chicken….he choked and there is no harm in that; cause, well, he made it to the NFC Champshp game…..not to shabby.

But Favre should LET IT GO!……………retire with some dignity.

Jim McGinty

January 25th, 2010
5:38 am

By your reasoning, whichever QB loses next week is the biggest fraud of the year? Favre willed a team that had half a dozen fumbles to somehow tie the game in regulation, and got them close to a 50 yard field goal attempt. And he is overrated? I’ll tell you one thing you aren’t overrated on… your spelling skills. I always laugh at ignorant old fools like you who crap on guys with special talent, while you are hammering away at your keyboard, nameless, never having accomplished anything of note, other than typing “of all team”. You can’t even get something so simple as that right, and you are crapping on Favre. You are sad and pathetic. Just like your column.

Ross

January 25th, 2010
5:56 am

I told my buddy flat out that before the game was over, Favre would make a critical mistake by trying to force one into coverage. Every big game he does this. I remember a playoff game with the Rams in which he had 6 interceptions.

As to Favre himself – I actually feel sorry for him. This is not a happy man, and retirement will be his undoing. There is something deeply neurotic is his behavior.

-drl

Jonas Grumby

January 25th, 2010
6:12 am

Favre being great and overrated are not mutually exclusive concepts. The fact that Terry Bradshaw, who’s basically an idiot, calls him the greatest QB ever doesn’t make that a concensus. Donovan McNabb is the more overrated QB. Favre is not nearly as overrated as Terrell Owens. In fact, Favre is not even the most overrated player on his team. That would be Adrian Peterson. As for most overrated athlete, I have to go with Allen Iverson … the caveat that I know or care nothing about hockey.

Lowcountry Bulldawg

January 25th, 2010
6:28 am

While Farve is not the most overrated as Bradley states, he certainly is not the greatest ever either. I cringed every time they displayed a graphic showing Farve breaking another Montana record. Do we really think Farve as better than Montana? No, its a matter of accumulating stats over a 19 year career.

Is Farve a Top 10 QB of All-Time? Unquestionably, as he essentially restored Green Bay as a relevant football city after disappearing in the ’80s. Where he falls in the Top 10 is up for debate but he is in the conversation for sure.

Lowcountry Bulldawg

January 25th, 2010
6:29 am

Sorry Favre—-wow coffee hasn’t kicked in yet!

George

January 25th, 2010
6:30 am

No. It was Troy Aikman who said, “Favre HE threw to the one guy being covered.” Aikman is going to be your first student in this English tutoring thing I mentioned earlier.

Now if you will allow me, I will make a sporting comment. Favre had what can be described as a great year. That he committed the one error that arguable kept his team from the Super Bowl is forgivable and does not diminish his great year, or great career for that matter. Would that the Falcons had kept him all these years. The things that might have been.

Topp Dogg

January 25th, 2010
6:32 am

Man i can not believe how many people want to have sex with Brett, most being men.Mark you are right he is overated but at 40 he can still play the game.

Dawg stuck in Bham

January 25th, 2010
6:44 am

Mark, I graciously disagree with you. But for the life of me, I can’t come up with someone that would replace him. Maybe that means you’re right. I don’t know…
So, for all of us that disagree with Mark, we can’t rant and rave against Mark’s view unless we have someone that we believe is more overrated. So, folks, let’s put up or shut up. Who else could it/should it be???????

Al Franken

January 25th, 2010
6:55 am

Even though I can’t stand the Saints, I’m glad that Minnesota lost. Anyone that would vote me (a clown) and Jesse Ventura (a big mouthed washed up wrestler) into office, doesn’t deserve to have a team in the Super Bowl.

Andrew DeLarge

January 25th, 2010
6:55 am

What’s overrated is Mark Bradley’s blog. He has a vendetta against one of the most successful QB’s of all time. Did he get dissed by Favre??

Go to Wickepedia and compare Favre’s QB ratings with all the other greats. He stacks up quiet well.

mike

January 25th, 2010
7:00 am

Well the morons are entitled to their moronic opinions. One thing about ole Brett. He will be in the Hall of Fame long after you haters have posted your last ignorant Brett post. Sort of silly hate from people who never had the talent or skills to accomplish anything like Brett.

SkinsFan

January 25th, 2010
7:01 am

Hey, George, since you are into correcting grammar, I would kindly point out that the word is “arguably” not “arguable.” I’m just sayin’.

Jaime

January 25th, 2010
7:02 am

Bradley: What have you ever done?

KOOLAID DRINKERS

January 25th, 2010
7:04 am

Brett Favre is no where as good as the KoolAid drinkers at ESPN and some of the readers of this blog think he is. He’s a good quarterback but he makes poor decisions at the end of ballgames. There is one play that kept them from going to the Superbowl. The interception he threw ended the Vikings season.

All this drama that surrounds him and his constant retirement / unretirement is silly.

I would rather discuss the NFL overtime rules. They stink! The team that wins the toss wins the game most of the time.

Archie Manning

January 25th, 2010
7:05 am

Yes! I get to do all the interviews I can and talk about myself, N.O., and my son….again.

Call me.

Cherokee

January 25th, 2010
7:07 am

Mark….You are the one that is over-rated. How do you keep your job?

Cracker Jacket

January 25th, 2010
7:09 am

Favre is a great quarterback but far from the greatest! He probably is overrated but that is how the national media works now! The media thinks Obama can walk on water too!

RixKix

January 25th, 2010
7:11 am

Favre isn’t the most over-rated athlete, he just tries to do too much and has an over-rated opinion of himself. This isn’t his fault. It is the fault of the “cult of personality” society we unfortunately live in nowadays. When people tell you that you are great, you start to believe it. You know who’s over-rated? Julia Roberts. David Letterman. Most Hip-Hop artists. Obama.

peterabbit

January 25th, 2010
7:12 am

Now I think about as much of you as I do Terrence Moore.

Mark

January 25th, 2010
7:13 am

Favre is a fantastic quarterback. No blown game by Farr, Handoff look at replay bad pocket by Mr. Peterson. 6 fumbles not one Farr fault. He had two interceptions. Last one was due to coach sending 12 players on the field immediately right after a time out within field goal range. He was trying to throw back across the field to get the field goal kicker in the middle of the field. I knew after 12 men on the field they were in trouble….. They were the better team but lost. Colts will route the Saints. …

Stupid UGA fan

January 25th, 2010
7:14 am

MARK WHY YOU ALWAYS BASHING UGA MAN ????

Georgia native

January 25th, 2010
7:15 am

Brett overated sure Mark.
What about the throne you worship?
The over ratedVince Dooley.
Please Mark just one more feature on Vince and his love of roses or his self promoting wife.

SatchelBuzz

January 25th, 2010
7:20 am

Couldn’t disagree with you more on this one. Brett Farve is one of the GREATEST to ever play the game. You’re flat out wrong if you think otherwise.

Travis

January 25th, 2010
7:21 am

Mark, what game did you watch? The game that I watched showed several turn overs, several questionable calls. In deed the interception was a bad turn of events, but it was the 5th turn over and the second of 2 in the red zone. The first turn over in the red zone would have sealed the win for the Vikings. Get on the page of reality! The loss was nothing short of a series of mistakes and calls. Not all being the result of Brett Favre. He’s undoubtably one of the greatest quarterbacks that’s played the game…you on the other hand will only be remembered by a select few. Most of which will think you’re nothing short of out classed, one dimentional, wanna be sports writer. One that didn’t make a real impact on reporting the facts or making a difference on anything real. That cannot be said about Brett Favre.

atl-xmen

January 25th, 2010
7:23 am

your still wrong Mark B..wasnt his fault they lost. he has completed that pass over and over again…did it last week against dallas..no way is he overrated. the man can play qb and to take a beating like he did last night and still throw for over 300 yards is awesome. so once again mark, your wrong.

Spurrier

January 25th, 2010
7:25 am

Adrian Peterson lost that game on the 5 yard line.

BravesFan79

January 25th, 2010
7:26 am

Mark…i usually agree with you, but your a moron for this article! Vince Young / Jasuckis Russel are Overrated…. Brett Farve is a LEGEND!!! Him coming back made this NFL season so much more exciting, and gave me another team to root for besides the Falcons.
The Vikings would of been a 1st round playoff exit without Farve! Thanks Brett for all the great memories, lets hope he comes back to make next year interesting also.

Chris Broe

January 25th, 2010
7:27 am

Bradley is….WRONG! Favre won that game. He creamed the saint’s secondary.

But it’s football. And nobody can beat the ghost of Wrong-way Harrigan.

Nobody.

John Steele

January 25th, 2010
7:27 am

What about the overrated quarterback that we have playing for the Atlanta Falcons?

Bears Fan

January 25th, 2010
7:30 am

Vikings kicked the Saints all over the field? What are you smoking? Did you see the game. The Vikings lost that game. Not Favre. The whole freaking team. Injuries depleted the secondary. Fumbles by you top running back and wide receivers. The defense only had 1 sack and barely any pressure on Brees. The Vikings O-line might as well be matadors the way that they let the rush knock down Brett. Okay I will give it to you about ESPN and the love fest for Brett. But that is less about his playing and more about his playing style. Tell me one other QB that would have stuck around for that punishment, hobbling around. Peyton? Hell no, not the golden child. Brett plays old school football the way it should be played. Hard and for the fun. I am a Bears fan and I hate everything about the Packers and Vikings (albeit not as much) but I know where to give the respect and admiration.

whachagot Loren

January 25th, 2010
7:31 am

Mark, once again you have fallen into the trap that a lot of journalists do and that is to not allow the facts to get in the way with the truth. You failed to mention that the Minnesota defense shut down the saints totally in the second half. And a field goal gotten out of anyone of those fumbles by Peterson wins the game for them.

How about the courage Favre showed throughout the game? I love Peyton Manning, but did you see his game. He would see someone coming at him and he would lay down. Favre stood there and received his hits, wanting to do nothing but win. I appreciate your opinions. But I totally disagree with you on this one.

Sure, the fanfare was and is a bit much as it relates to Favre. But look at the facts of this game. Minnesotas defense had shut New Orleans down and it was Petersons 4 fumbles that cost them. Not Favre throwing the interception.

Jim

January 25th, 2010
7:31 am

Bradley has this thing about Mississippi and Mississippi guys, Guess he is just jealous he never had the opportunity to live there, Bradley is a jerk. Farve may have lost this game but I would bet at 40 Bradley would have never been able to run out on that field I rest my case, Mississippi produces some of the BEST college and pro athletes.

John

January 25th, 2010
7:36 am

Mark, the only way you could write this column is to justify a foolish position you took earlier. The reason the Vikings lost the game was the multiple fumbles. Favre played a good — not great — game. The offensive line let the Saints pound him. Most players — of any age — would have retreated to the bench after some of those hits, and especially after the ankle injury. We have lived in an age of great quarterbacks. I’m not ready to say Farvre is the greatest, but he is one of the best. His enthusiasm for the game and heart cannot be questioned.

You are far from the greatest sportswriter of our time.

John

January 25th, 2010
7:37 am

Enter your comments here

Brenda

January 25th, 2010
7:40 am

give us a break. Favre got them within 30 seconds of the super bowl. something matty ice cant even dream of yet. only MV7, thats right, MIKE VICK has gotten the falcons this close.

is matt sanchez a failure too?

Chris Broe

January 25th, 2010
7:44 am

The Vikings lost because two hundred years ago they made a pact with the devil. It WAS N’awlin’s, you know.

Voodoo and The Ghost of Wrong-way Corrigan. The Vikings are cursed.

Someone call an exorcist. Ban Pea Soup from their training kitchen.

All of Favre’s beautifully obnoxious ego is melting. Gone. Wasted. What a world.

What a world.

milee

January 25th, 2010
7:44 am

mark
i think you are a jerk, pure and simple. maybe you are jealous of number 4’s achievements. maybe you are a sore loser. none the less, an overrated jerk commentator.

Peadawg

January 25th, 2010
7:52 am

Facts are facts. In Brett Favre’s last 2 NFC title games, he’s thrown an interception to blow the game for his team. OVERRATED clap clap clap clap clap OVERRATED clap clap clap clap clap

russdawg

January 25th, 2010
7:54 am

Farve most overrated ? No that is Dale Jr.
Farve kept them in the game then cost them the game with that late pick so it is a wash
any other QB and that game is a blowout
Just PLEASE spare us another season of cryin and drama
We got Tebow the cryer to look forward to.

Brett's Lover

January 25th, 2010
7:59 am

Most overated? Nah, but close.

Man can take a hit? Check
Great play action? Check
Thread the needle passer? Check
Smoking hot wife? Check +
Choked on the one play that really counted? Check

I admit, I had a mancrush, but it now merely a crash.

BL

Habersham Dawg

January 25th, 2010
8:03 am

Wow, Mark. At 1AM this morning did you ask yourself “What can I write that’ll make 4 out of 5 people call me an idiot?” If so, you nailed it.

Peadawg

January 25th, 2010
8:03 am

“Thread the needle passer? Check”

Yeah, like when he threaded the needle into triple coverage(interception btw)?

Chris Broe

January 25th, 2010
8:03 am

Favre reminds me of YA Tittle. The greatest icon photo of all time is the one of him kneeling and bleeding from the head on the field after the loss to Chicago in the Championship Game in 1963. Even though it was 46 years ago I can remember every detail.

The Beatles had just become a sensation in America. Kennedy had just been laid to rest. A dance craze called the twist was finally kaput, opening the way for the Mashed Potatoe, and all the other the dance-of-the-month crazes that swept america from 1964 to1966 when it finally died out. If you went to a lot of Jr. High School dance parties, and danced last month’s craze instead of the latest craze, people talked about it. Once I did the alligator instead of the crocodile and I never heard the end of it. Cost me a date with a cheerleader. I cried. Fact. Jack.

Anyway, America needed a hero.

Well, YA Tittle was driving the Giants down to the red zone. Chicago Bears were reeling. One more TD pass would give the Giants the V.

But Da Bears smothered, covered and clobbered the Giants and, and now you know the REST of the story.

59bulldawg

January 25th, 2010
8:04 am

Mark, either you’re just stirring the pot for response or you’re a very cynical man. No way Brett is the most overrated athlete of our time. Not even close! However he is probably one of the most beloved athletes of our time and a sure Hall of Famer. I was never a Green Bay fan or a Jets fan or a Minnesota fan but like a lot of people I pulled for Green Bay and New York and Minnesota because of Brett. Why? Maybe it’s the concept of proving someone wrong who tells you that you can no longer do what you love any longer because you’ve reached a certain age. Maybe it’s the idea of proving your critics wrong. But there are thousands, perhaps millions of football fans who respect and adore what this man has done over the years. He’s not perfect but he’s a winner . . . one of the greatest to ever play the game. And for some unknown reason cynical media types like yourself can’t stand the guy. Sure he’s made mistakes but you know he’s won a heck of a lot more games for his teams than he’s lost over the years. The man is tough as nails and he possesses a great deal of heart . . . something cynics like yourself will never understand and always belittle. Perhaps you should try writing with a little less cynicism. Reading your column would be much more enjoyable if you did!

the truth....

January 25th, 2010
8:05 am

You are a blithering moron, and an a**hole at the best…you of all people talk about “over rated”…you are so mediocre as a sports writer/reporter that you should be banned from even mentioning Favre’s name….

Too bad you don’t have the opportunity to say the crap you write to the folks face to face that you write about…Favre would simply kick your tail….even if he were 80 he’ll still be able to do it…

Wausau Dame

January 25th, 2010
8:07 am

Even in his prime (which was sometime in the 90s) Favre made bonehead after bonehead play. Is there any other player in any other sport who holds so many individual records yet isn’t mentioned as one of the all time greats?

LAKE OCONEE DAWG

January 25th, 2010
8:07 am

Brett Favre is a 1st ballot Hall of Famer….Only an idiot would bash a guy who has performed as well as he has….He had nothing to lose when he threw the interception at the end of the game…All they had was a 56 yard field goal if he throws it away…To to try to blame this game on #4, you must be drinking from the same glass as Fran Tarkenton…Minnesota lost this one because they were playing basketball during a football game, bouncing the ball all over the yard….If you can’t recognize this guy’s abilities, you indeed have no clue about pro QB’s……

Gravedigger

January 25th, 2010
8:07 am

Not a Favre lover or hater, but if anyone on this blog has ever done anything close to what Favre has done with his career I would like to know about it. Got to give the man his credit, he did it his way, like it or not.

Jim

January 25th, 2010
8:08 am

“Favre Rules For All” is classic! Thanks for the tip, Mark.

Of course if we get one more season of commentary local college football commentary like the last one from you and Schulz, there could be a “Paul Johnson Rules For All” page. As in, “Yes, Brody blew up the shark, but that shark is really on the rise, I’m telling you. Brody’s on a downward trajectory.”

Chris Broe

January 25th, 2010
8:08 am

The Vikings lost in the playoffs last year to the Falcons because of a bunch of crazy happenings too. The ball inexplicably squirting toward the Falcon’s end zone like it was being carried by the Ghost of Wrong Way Corrigan. Remember that?

Maybe the Vikings really are cursed. Maybe they really DID make a pact with the Devil in 1750 like what Pat Robertson said they done did do.

(insert Twilight Zone music here).

Bank Walker, Texas Ranger

January 25th, 2010
8:09 am

you’re Mark, I’m really glad we don’t have Favre here in Atlanta and put up with all that winning only to lose in the Championship. I’m really embarrassed for the Minnesota fans who had to put up with this team all year. Peterson is overrated too

wow

January 25th, 2010
8:10 am

Where would the Vikes be without Farve…Not in the NFC Championship game…..I will agree he is carelss sometimes but that does not define athlete of all time. Try breaking a sweat at anything except walking to the bathroom at 40 you p$$$$ and then you may know something about being an athlete

Jim

January 25th, 2010
8:10 am

“Favre Rules For All” is classic! Thanks for the tip, Mark.

Of course if we get one more season of local college football commentary like the last one from you and Schulz, there could be a “Paul Johnson Rules For All” page. As in, “Yes, Brody blew up the shark, but that shark is really on the rise, I’m telling you. Brody’s on a downward trajectory.”

Bank Walker, Texas Ranger

January 25th, 2010
8:11 am

please insert “right” between you’re and Mark. Thank you

Fred

January 25th, 2010
8:13 am

I’m not sure we watched the same game. Part of me wanted the Vikings to win because of Favre and part of me wanted the Saints to win just because. I saw the Vikings fumble 4 times at bad times to kill drives. I saw Peterson not give Favre a pocket to put the ball in on a fumbled handoff. I saw Favre try to make a play when clearly his ribs were bothering him from a slam sack earlier and bum ankle that would have kept most men out of the game. I saw him try to make a play when he knew he would not be able to run or take an open field tackle. I think The Vikings offense as a whole make plenty of mistakes to go around, any one of which could have changed the outcome of the game.

For those criticizing Terry Bradshaw, I think the man has 4 Super Bowl rings so yes, I think what he has to say is relevant in this context. Exagerated for TV, probably, but still relevant.

Having said all this, it is good to see the Saints in the Super Bowl if it couldn’t be the Falcons.

My $.02 and your milage will vary.

Chris Broe

January 25th, 2010
8:15 am

I like Manning’s chances in Feb.

Gravedigger

January 25th, 2010
8:16 am

wow, that was a good one!!

Minnesota Dawg

January 25th, 2010
8:17 am

I rarely agree with you Mark. You are wrong again on this one. Bret Farve is the one who kept Minnesota in this game. You can’t put the ball on the ground five times and win. Yet they almost pulled it off! You already had a bias against Farve, so I don’t think you can objectively look at the facts!

todd grantham

January 25th, 2010
8:18 am

Mark, do you prefer sudden death like this game or the college version of overtime?

LAKE OCONEE DAWG

January 25th, 2010
8:19 am

If Brett had had Pugnacious Paul coaching him on the Georgia Tech passing game, the Vikings would have surely won….Are your bosses telling you to take the wrong side of an issue just to stir up the populace, or is this really your true feelings….I think there should be an NFL rule about stating your intentions about playing the following year, because the way it has happened in the past is not good for the Vikings, or for that matter, Brett Favre, either…No way to argue about what he meant to the Vikings this season, however….When you get the ball in the red zone as many times as the Vikings did, and you don’t get points, you expect to lose…Worse game the Vikings have played in the past 10 games,and came at the wrong time….5 Turnovers, lack of sacks, giving up huge kickoff returns….Vikings got no one to blame except themselves…..

Red

January 25th, 2010
8:20 am

You are a failure guy. That is what you will be remembered for. Writing about failures. You sit and wait for the athletes to fail and then fly in like a buzzard who was waiting on someone to die. What a miserable life you have.

Mark Fatley

January 25th, 2010
8:23 am

The irony of your little insignificant blog is the overwhelming response you get for mentioning Favre, but if you did not you probably get next to no reads. Probably because you are a boring pratt.

CDAWG

January 25th, 2010
8:23 am

Mark you are way off your mark. I realize that this is your platform and you may use it as you see fit, however, Brett in no way lost that game. The guy took a beating because his line was not giving him adequate protection. I wonder how many younger guys would have withstood that beating. I watched the right tackle blocking down to help his team mate double team a guy and totally let the DE release untouched. His O-line should get their A$$’$ chewed today.
Adrian could have had that hand off that landed on the ground had he been paying attention. I tell my running backs that they have some responsibility in the hand off as well as the QB. Something else that Brett brought to the table this year is wisdom and leadership earned through years of success and experience.
Furthermore, his team lost by only THREE points to the hottest team in the NFL!!! I think your personal jealousies and dislikes for the KING should remain silent. Write something on something, say, the man who won the hotdog eating contest.

Dan

January 25th, 2010
8:24 am

Brett Favre NFL Records: most career touchdown passes, most career passing yards, most career pass completions, most career pass attempts, most consecutive starts, and most career victories as a starting quarterback. Future hall of famer. And he is overrated?!?!?!?! M

ark Bradley needs to be fired. This is terrible journalism. Stop stirring the pot.

The Grinch

January 25th, 2010
8:27 am

His last pass completion for Green Bay was an interception in the NFC championship game.

His last pass completion for Minnesota will probably be that stupid interception in the NFC championship game.

REALIST

January 25th, 2010
8:30 am

110% correct on all accounts Mark…factual article… unlike the garbage the agenda laden mouthpieces at ESPN spew. I was beginning to think there were NBA officials working the game with a mandate fron the No Pads League front office.

DecaturBird

January 25th, 2010
8:31 am

This is a joke, right? One bad play, in the NFC Championship game, after his teammates had laid the ball on the ground several times?

Wow. I’m not even a Favre fan, particularly. But if that wasn’t supposed to be a self-depricating joke (I can hope) that’s one of your “finest” moments, man.

meh

January 25th, 2010
8:32 am

I hate Favre as much as the next guy, but the Vikings got jobbed. Grant it, Fave through the INT that lead to over time which led to the Vikings being jobbed. That pass interference was bogus. The ball was clearly way over thrown. And I don’t know how they upheld the completed pass after looking at the review. The ball looked to hit the ground to me.

WonderDawg

January 25th, 2010
8:32 am

I’d say Farve is is somewhat overrated but definately the one of the top two most “trumpeted” athletes in the ESPN age. The other one (Tiger) is much more deserving of having his butt kissed by ESPN, but it gets old nonetheless.

meh

January 25th, 2010
8:33 am

Also, as long as the NFL uses sudden death OT it will be inferior to college football.

Huh?!

January 25th, 2010
8:35 am

Is Favre the best ever? No. Is he the most overrated? Not even close. Bradley wishes he had half the skills so that maybe he could’ve played the game instead of waxing poetic about others from the sidelines. The turnover bug bit Peterson, Harvin, Shiancoe and (yes) Favre (some multiple times) in an otherwise good game and we get subjected to this drivel. Get a life!

Favre BLEW IT!!!!

January 25th, 2010
8:35 am

19 “legendary” years and Favre blows the game on s stupid rookie type decision!

Can you say OVERRATED?

Maybe that is why Favre teams have only won one championship?

59bulldawg

January 25th, 2010
8:37 am

One championship is one more than a lot of NFL teams have won!

SKULLS

January 25th, 2010
8:40 am

Farve sucks. end of story.

winterville

January 25th, 2010
8:41 am

I agree, the hoopla around this guy is enough to make you think Tim Tebow doesn’t get enough press. Before the game I think it was Terry Bradshaw claiming that Farve was the best to ever play the game. Give me a break. He’s not even the best of the 4 teams that were left Saturday. Peyton beats him by a solid mile. Then to even lump him in the sam category as Joe Montana! Give me a Break!!!!

WonderDawg

January 25th, 2010
8:41 am

Mark, do you want to get called more names in for column than you have been today? Do an article on the most overrated NASCAR driver in history. Dale Jr. He’s the only “athlete” with more blind fans than Farve. God luck.

WonderDawg

January 25th, 2010
8:42 am

that’s more names one column

TJ

January 25th, 2010
8:47 am

Mr. Bradley, thank you for your opinion. I, too, just felt it in my skinny bones, that somehow the Vikings would blow it at the end. Then, when they got the 5 yard penalty for 12 in the huddle, the stage was set for failure, or fate , however you want to look at it. Some things, you just feel. I knew that either Favre or Peterson would turn it over.
As for Favre being overrated, however, please explain where he is rated now, and also where YOU would rank him among QB’s. Thanks.

ERIN

January 25th, 2010
8:51 am

what crappy writing. how can someone with his career stats be “overrated?”

WonderDawg

January 25th, 2010
8:51 am

I bet Jen doesn’t shave her legs ….

Oh and Wie won a LPGA event in ‘09 and carried the Solheim Cup team to victory last. Just saying…

Tommy

January 25th, 2010
8:51 am

I don’t care if Favre had 100,000 career passing yards–there were 15 seconds left, you’re inside Ryan Longwell’s field goal range, you rolled out to the right and there was NO ONE in front of you for at least 5 yards. Every NFL QB with two brain cells to rub together heads for the sideline and gives his team a shot at the winning field goal. But he throws it across his body into double-coverage.

And I’m supposed to accept that a guy who makes THIS play is the greatest quarterback of all time?????

Brett Favre is the Cal Ripken of the NFL. In other words, he is an extremely overrated athlete whose ‘great records’ are all the result of playing forever.

Had Eli Manning, Philip Rivers, or Aaron Rodgers made that throw–the ESPN guys would have been calling him the stupidest person in NFL history. Heck, had Tom Brady done that they would have said it. But the Golden Boy gets a pass. Of course.

Eric

January 25th, 2010
8:53 am

Brett may not be perfect, but then who is. History will be very kind to him, as it should be. Brett Favre is very good for football. There are few player who really love the game the way he does. I truly believe his detractors are just jealous…or juvenile, or insecure or something. That game came down to a flip of the coin. Had the Vikings won the toss, they would be the ones celebrating.

UA Alum92

January 25th, 2010
8:53 am

Glad we don’t have to endure two solid weeks of Favre worship. Hope he retires for good. Peyton is far and away the best QB in the NFL and, with another SB win, should be in the discussion for best ever.

melissa

January 25th, 2010
8:56 am

you’re an asshole

Halsey

January 25th, 2010
8:57 am

The Vikings would have never been in the NFCCG if Favre didn’t join them.

kepah17

January 25th, 2010
8:58 am

I totally agree, he is overated and not very smart. He has ammassed some big numbers as a result of staying healthy for his career. He is not in the class of Montana, Elway, and many of the other old timers.

JeJe

January 25th, 2010
9:01 am

Favre is NOT overrated. A.P. blew serious !@#$ in this game. He gets the blame, not Favre.

And trust me, I am no Favre fan, but I admired watching Brett that entire time

TommyJack

January 25th, 2010
9:06 am

Brett needs to go away. For good.

kepah17

January 25th, 2010
9:07 am

Maybe not overated but not very bright for sure. Refererence the last championship game he was in againest the Giants, dumb, de dumb dumb

Richard Dawson

January 25th, 2010
9:07 am

I’m sick of Favre, but calling him the most overrated athlete of our time is silly. Many MLB players/cheaters, such as McGwire and Bonds, far surpass Favre.

UA Alum92

January 25th, 2010
9:07 am

Favre is a polarizing figure and I guess such characters are good for selling papers. Amazing how much ink that guy generates.

Reginald Ball

January 25th, 2010
9:08 am

The real goat from last night is whomever was the 12th man in the huddle. Were it not for the 5 yard penalty, the next play would have been a run up the middle, followed by a potential game winning FG kick on the last play of the game.

Bryan

January 25th, 2010
9:09 am

c’mon Bradley …be for real…this reads like you sat around watching the whole game rooting for one guy to make a mistake…gimmie a break…this season was STILL a HUGE success for Brett Favre and the Vikes period…u don’t sound too bright writing this article and I’m writing this as a guy who NEVER liked Favre but u sound silly!!!

Eric

January 25th, 2010
9:10 am

Is the loss Favre’s fault? I personally don’t care if the Vikings would have won or lost. I’ve grown up a Favre fan and he is arguably among the best quarterbacks of all-time. Yes, I think he made a bad play and he, along with many others (on and off the field) have made plenty of bad plays. His came at a very bad time, twice in his career, but folks… It’s more than just his playing that made me a fan (and irate at times as well), but it’s the guy. I don’t know if he’s a man’s man or what, but to me he is a role model…. a human role model. You can question my choice, my judgment, but for me the fact that he lives his work-life on television, plays with such passion and heart… It is not easy to describe, but the man makes me proud. There aren’t many things in life I can think of that I would “really” like to do, but shaking Brett Favre’s hand would be near the top of my list.

Bill

January 25th, 2010
9:10 am

Where would the Vikings have been without Favre? The man earned his pay, give it a rest.
Hope the Colts kick A@@.

winterville

January 25th, 2010
9:12 am

He’s a great quarterback. Easily top 10 of all time and arguably top 5, however, just as all us Georgia fans were sick of the Tebow gushing by ESPN, this guy gets too much attention. Bradley isn’t saying the guy stinks. Obviously, he is great. But he is not deserving of all the attention he gets year round. The stupid interceptions in now 2 NFC championship games alone proves that. For that reason I argue that Bradley is right on in this assessment. He’ not saying Farve sucks, just that the is overated.

TM

January 25th, 2010
9:13 am

You are wrong, without question….. it was terrible for NBC to pull Conan.

JacketFan

January 25th, 2010
9:14 am

Favre surpassed at least two QB postseason records last night (surpassing Montana). He made two mistakes and they were costly, but the bigger mistakes were the penalties on the Vikings defense (one of which was questionable) and the fumbles by Adrian Peterson. No, Favre is not the most overrated player of all time. That honor goes to “The Boz” or Michael Vick.

Vince Lombardi

January 25th, 2010
9:14 am

You can blame Favre for his two INT’s, Peterson for his fumbles, but in the end I blame the head coach. Despite the turnovers Minnesota had a chance to win it in regulation, but the last minute of regulation was some pretty poor clock management. Then on top of that, to get an illegal substitution penalty that puts you out of FG range was pitiful.

Wolfeman

January 25th, 2010
9:17 am

Mark, you’re almost always right on, but why write this now??
With a good leg last night, maybe he runs for 10 yards instead of throwing that last INT.
Who is the best clutch quarterback of my lifetime? I think Joe Montana…..
Brett threw for 29,000 more career yards than Montana did.
Never missed a game…..amazing!

Without-a-clue

January 25th, 2010
9:19 am

You people who make your judgments on one of the best and most exciting quarterbacks to ever play the game, are laughable. You, yourselves, are not overrated because you have never been rated. Count your beans and type your columns and dream on.

EW

January 25th, 2010
9:20 am

This post is bordering on juvenile MB. You’re a good writer, so you can do better than an “I told you so” article that uses one big mistake to prove YOUR hyperbole that Favre is the most overrated athlete of our time. UGH

kepah17

January 25th, 2010
9:25 am

Lets hope he finally retires for good so the lovefest will stop. Maybe he could take Chris Berman with him, that would really make it a good year.

Bradley is a jackass

January 25th, 2010
9:31 am

You obviously have never played the game of football Bradley. On a handoff the ballcarrier is suppose to creat a pocket around the belly and close on it when he feels the ball hit him in the stomach. AP clearly was closeing his arms before the ball got there. Thus the fumble isn’t on Farve. Are you going to write a column slamming AP with his fumbling problems? I wouldn’t bet on it. Farve’s last throw was pretty silly considering he could’ve easily run for 7-8 years to ensure a FG attempt. I just hate it when Mr. Sportswriter guy Bradley is perfectly willing to slam a HOF QB when he’s never put on a pair of shoulder pads in his life , and stepped between the lines. You’re pathetic Mark. Truly pathetic.

RAZOR

January 25th, 2010
9:33 am

IF BRET FAVRE OVERATED, SO IS MATT RYAN

Navigator

January 25th, 2010
9:33 am

Talking about a writer searching for acorn, man you’re searching hard. The tight butt coach that got down the field to the 33 yard line and refused to try to get closer, confusion set in and a 5 yard penalty moved them out (coach my friend not QB caused that problem). Peterson fails to take hand off from Favre and loses ball at the end of the first half (blaming Favre for that, really stupid). Peteson fumbles ball down deep leading to a Saints touchdown (blaming Favre for that too). Receivers dropped key passes all game and of course that was Favre’s fault too. Bradley find another subject to toot your horn, you have no case here.

Not Don Waddell

January 25th, 2010
9:40 am

Epic Fail…really? How could you let that slip in you headline there, Mark.

Glorified blogger. Fantastic.

lifetime reader

January 25th, 2010
9:42 am

Worst op-ed you have ever written. Worst.

billcanoe

January 25th, 2010
9:44 am

Mark, you are absolutely right. Favre has a cannon of an arm, but his fundamental problem is his incredible ego, which makes him think that he can make unmakeable plays and beat the world. Common sense fails him at the worst possible times. He probably will get into the Hall of Fame simply because of his career stats. But he does not even belong in “the greatest quarterback of all time” discussion. He isn’t even in the room.

NvilleDawg

January 25th, 2010
9:44 am

Mark Bradley is. a. complete. idiot. And he’s the most overrated columnist in the country. Oh, wait, very few know who he is. And, yet, he’s still overrated.

Nativebird

January 25th, 2010
9:48 am

You are SO right. I’ve been saying this for years, at nuch peril from all the Favre-hypers. decent quarterback, decent athlete. If you play long enough on decent team’s you’ll be a STAT machine. You’ll probably hold a lot of records. but ONE superbowl? oh yea..ALL those INT’s. Most by anyone…..EVER.

Brett Favre meet Tom Glavine…Tom Glavine…Brett Favre.

Danny Wells

January 25th, 2010
9:50 am

I just started reading your daily blog about a month ago. Up until this article I have sort of enjoyed it. Aftter I read this one I almost cancelled my feed. If Brett Favre was wrong as much as your are or as much as I am he would have been out of football a loing time ago.

Matt

January 25th, 2010
9:52 am

Mark-Long suffering Vikings fan here. I went through all of the defeats in the Super Bowl in the 70’s when I was a kid, through all of the losses to Washington, Atlanta, New York and now New Orleans in the NFC championship. It’s now 34 years and counting since our last Super Bowl appearance and all I’m left with is…”Brett Favre is a MORON”!!

The really aggravating thing is this team has talent, but I submit that Favre has actually set them back a number of years. Who is going to play QB for this team and bring them back to this point? Not T-Jack or Rosenfals. Bringing Favre in was a huge gamble and it’s going to cost this cursed franchise for years to come.

Josta

January 25th, 2010
9:52 am

Good perspective Mark. Favre probably will be a first ballot Hall of Famer, but with all of the positive records that he holds, he has also thrown more interceptions than any quarterback in NFL history. They seem to come more often in the post-season. That is not protecting the football.

Sam Pelarski

January 25th, 2010
9:54 am

It wasn’t Bretts fault for the loss….!! There were tons of plays that lead up to this unfortunate loss. Peterson made me very nervous every time he carried the ball. I mean I was on pins and needles. Now when farve stepped up to throw I was excited to see how many more yards he was going to put on the charts for us. I’m only 12 years old but I’m old enough to know that this artical is total Bull Sh_t *!*!*!

Tailback U

January 25th, 2010
9:55 am

Mark
Perhaps I am wrong but I think those who are blasting you are not looking at this from the perspective of how Favre is viewed as far
as his ranking goes with other HOF and legendary QB’s.
Rather they are viewing it as if you are stating that Favre has
not been a great QB in his career. Which of course would be a
silly argument. But to compare Favre with some of these other
quarterbacks and put him a some do among the top 5 of all time is
equally foolish . To throw a pick in that circumstance yesterday
with that much on the line and that place on the field is unforgiveable.
Much has been made of the Peterson fumbles and other turnovers but if
you are the elite QB that you have been proclaimed to be no way you
throw that type of careless int. If you are a truly a legend, rather
you find a way to get enough yards for the FG and win. There is much
to be admired about Favre but he is flawed and he is the guy who drove
Holmgren crazy with bad decisions. On a personal level being a little
older than Brett I was hoping that he would pull it out . I have other
friends in the same age bracket wanting to see a Favre/ Manning matchup.
Folks today may be making excuses for Brett but you better know that
when Favre looked in the mirror this morning he knew clearly where
to lay the blame.

teamguy

January 25th, 2010
9:57 am

If you don’t believe this loss was Favre’s fault, then answer this: who had the ball in his hands with a chance to put his team in position to win, and literally threw it away? The prosecution rests.

Pago Flyer

January 25th, 2010
9:58 am

We agree, the NFL overtime rules are goofy. College OT is more fun.

cutter

January 25th, 2010
9:59 am

Mark Bradley I can safely say I was not wrong about you. You look like just what you are… an idiot. I’m not much of a Favre fan but a bush leaguer like you should stick to writing about hometown screw ups. I’m a Falcon fan but the fact is Matt Ryan is overrated, people were comparing the kid to Peyton Manning and Tom Brady. Matt Ryan can’t carry their jock straps. Maybe one day but nowhere near close to those lofty comparisons right now. Brett Favre is a first ballot Hall of Fame QB who may go down as one of the 3 best to ever play the game. How do you overrate that??? Stay Stupid my friend.

Luther

January 25th, 2010
10:03 am

Bradley is just wanting to dance on the grave of Brett first since he didnt support yet another return. I am not a Brett fan, but to say he is the most overated. I lived the years of Steve Brussard picked over Emmitt Smith, Marcus Cotton, Aundray Bruce, soon to be Jamaal Anderson.

What I am not ready for is the panty waste, selfish, ridiculous behavior that is about to begin with the “Brett Favre Retirement” Soap Opera. It is a bad show that wont go away. Kind of like The Bachelor or Bachelorette or…..

Very Happy for the fans of Green Bay today.

De' truth

January 25th, 2010
10:04 am

Brett Favre is the Arnold Palmer of football. Yeah, he/they hit a bunch in the weeds but “there wern’t no quit” or lay-up in either of them. That’s what made them both so exciting to watch.

PMC

January 25th, 2010
10:05 am

Ok, so the end is known. Peyton is amazing.

Brett Farve is the most fun QB to watch ever. There is no exception. He is the greatest watch of all time. Overrated? Hardly. You knew even after the illegal high low that hurt his ankle he was coming back. You knew an INT was coming… it was still tremendously exciting. If not for a boosh PI call we get a chance to see him drive in OT.

AndyC

January 25th, 2010
10:07 am

Yeah Mark! You got something right for once! Hurray!

MR

January 25th, 2010
10:08 am

The vikings would not have been this far if not for Farve. You really are a dumb ass.

Jeff R

January 25th, 2010
10:08 am

About Favre… I don’t comment much about football, but I’d say this in Favre’s defense: his career outside Atlanta has had him on competitive and winning teams. Until recently, the Falcons have been one of the worst franchises in NFL history – and they still have a way to go to dig themselves out of that hole.

Favre’s got to thank his lucky stars that Atlanta moved him long ago… it’s made all the difference in his career.

More overrated than

January 25th, 2010
10:08 am

Michelle Wie?

January Thaw

January 25th, 2010
10:09 am

This is hilariious! You write using the same stale ink the bleeds sickness all over Wisconsin!! Green Bay Packer fans carry your same sense of jealousy. Favre is a hero and always will be, you’re a simple has been (I question whether you understand true journalism). Your bitterness and cynical attitude keeps you from seeing the bigger picture. You must be wondering what it must be like to have a professional career that you were good at and passionate about.. earning 12 million dollars at age 40. LOL

Nothing wrong with NFL overtime rule

January 25th, 2010
10:10 am

It’s like going to the score cards in an UFC fight. You avoid it at all cost by winning in regulation. What’s so hard about understanding this concept? It’s “sudden death”…

Ryan

January 25th, 2010
10:11 am

1) You can’t assume Longwell would have made a 50 yard FG.

2) The 12-men penalty forced Favre to throw against a defense primed for an obvious passing down.

3) Peterson deserves more blame for fumbling the punt at the 10 yard line, giving the Saints an easy 7.

4) Neither the Vikings nor Favre should take blame for the loss considering the NFL has the most asinine overtime rules in the history of sports.

JeanE

January 25th, 2010
10:13 am

Mark Bradley, you are such a jerk. I admit, I was annoyed when Favre was waffling but come on, the man has more guts and heart in his pinkie finger than you do in your entire body. Yes, it was a bad decision at the end of the game but my God, how can you not admire him (forget liking him) for the sheer force of will it took to drag himself back onto the field? You can’t blame him for losing that game, he had much help from his teamates who couldn’t hold onto the damn ball! And they wouldn’t have even been in the NFC championship without Brett. Yes, he’s an egomaniac, what athlete isn’t? But he has class and I love watching him play. Bradley, you’re just trying to stir the pot, pathetic. And No, I can’t root for the Saints but I hate the Dolts, too. Another Super Bowl where I don’t give a crap.

E43

January 25th, 2010
10:13 am

stats superbowls and records say otherwise but i get your opinion.

Lou Vales

January 25th, 2010
10:16 am

Nobody ever mentions the reason Brett keeps returning is because his family does not want him in the house from August-December. Brett makes Terry Bradshaw sound like Steven Hawking.

Dawgie Bowser

January 25th, 2010
10:17 am

Okay Marky Mark, Overated may be a bit strong here. overated Q.B.’s don’t usually lead their team this far in the playoffs and be just a minor whiff away of playing in the big game. What a great story it could have been if Favre had not only taken his team to Miami but walked away a victor down there. I normally pull for the team thats a little closer in so I cheered for N.O. but held out Favre as my sentimental favorite. He could have easily enjoyed all the spoils and dadgummit he sure came close in my book so I’ll have to fuss with you a little on this one Marky.

Dr. Phil

January 25th, 2010
10:19 am

Favre is not the greatest QB of all time, but he is probably the toughest. He needs to retire while he can still walk.

Brit Massey

January 25th, 2010
10:21 am

Mark,
Your argument against Favre’s greatness reminds me of the argument regarding Rockefeller that says he wouldn’t be rich if he didn’t have oil wells. Point is: he did!!!!!!!!!!

59bulldawg

January 25th, 2010
10:23 am

Aikman’s just mad about that last touchdown against his boys last week! LOL! Of course Aikman never made a mistake did he? Far as I’m concerned he’s just another hater!

85' Bears

January 25th, 2010
10:25 am

Out of these quarterbacks, who would be more likely to throw that pick in that situation: Joe Montana, Troy Aikman, Steve Young, Jon Elway, Brett Farve? The answer is Brett Farve. That interception he threw was just not “one mistake” in his career, he does that more often then all the quarterbacks I just mentioned. Farve throwing a pick is a surprising as Culter throwing a pick. What was suprising, however, was the lack of picks he threw this year. Brett is a hall of famer, he has gawdy stats and the longevity. But for every last minute comeback he has, he has a last minute letdown.

Scott

January 25th, 2010
10:26 am

Except for the fact that his O-line let him get crushed a few 1000 times, his backs didn’t hold on to the ball, and the play call not to safely run the ball on their last possession of regular play…..
um, yes…. it’s Favre’s fault. Where you even watching the same game?!!

Ed

January 25th, 2010
10:27 am

This was absolutely, positively, the most disgusting article I have ever read in the AJC. Bradley turns my stomache.

Peyton's Place

January 25th, 2010
10:27 am

If the Saints think they are going to do the same to Peyton Manning as they did to Warner and Favre they got another thing coming.Manning will shred No’s pass defense.Sharper isn’t as good as Revis and Revis couldn’t stop all of Manning’s recievers,he could only limit one.New Orleans defense has no class…pounding Farve and Warner after they hand the balls off.Indy’s O line is much better than Phoenix or Minn.People in Atlanta like to knock Farve because the Falcons were/are LOSERS and they have shown that year after year….Bradley….labels Favre a LOSER….Takes a WASHED UP BLOG WRITER FROM ATLANTA TO FIGURE THAT OUT???????????????

um yeah

January 25th, 2010
10:28 am

all time leader in is pass yards in the playoffs is the most overated fkctadur

Drunken UGAg fan

January 25th, 2010
10:30 am

Nick Saban is overrated.

GO DAWGS!

HelluvaEngineer

January 25th, 2010
10:30 am

Mark, it’s a catch 22. If he is overrated, he must necessarily have played on big stages through his career. In order to get to that point he must have amassed a winning record that would make any QB envious. While his decision-making has been questionable throughout his career, he has made some major throws to put him under the spotlight he has rightly earned. Favre will rightfully go down as one of the all-time greats…. he would be unambiguously the best if he played with the FB IQ of manning or marino, using him as a footstep to thump your own chest is disingenuous.

Georgina in exile

January 25th, 2010
10:31 am

I wouldn’t agree with Bradley that Favre is the most overrated QB of all time (lots to choose from), but I think a solid argument could be made that he’s the most egomaniacal. (Lots of competition there, also, but Favre is tops.)

Favre desperately wants to go out in a blaze of Super Bowl glory, a la John Elway. Problem is, he’s not following the Elway late-career playbook — don’t worry so much about winning with your arm, but manage the game, avoid turnovers, and keep feeding the ball to your stud back. That’s because Elway managed to keep his ego in check and follow the plan. Favre is incapable of resisting the impulse to be the cannon-armed, late-game hero — THE MAN, as he was in Green Bay until the maturing of Rodgers allowed them to divest themselves of an aging scatter-armed QB whose me-first, me-second, team-third mentality would always stand in the way of another championship.

Post-Green Bay, Favre was shrewd enough to recognize the Elway-Broncos Super Bowl Winning Template and align himself with teams that stressed defense and running, first NYJ, then Minnesota. Favre even managed to follow the playbook the first half of the season. But he got lucky with a few game-winning miracle throws, which fed his ego and drive to be THE MAN. Remember the crisis about 3/4 into the Vikings’ season, when Favre revolted, to the extent that he wouldn’t even address Childress as “Coach” but by his first name, Brad? At that point, the INT in field-goal range that ended the 4th quarter, with Minny never again touching the ball, was inevitable.

Favre will always break his team’s fans’ hearts by leading them to the brink of triumph, then stupidly squandering it with a bone-ehaded INT.

Overrated? Not necesssarily. Egomanical? Definitely.

Ron D.

January 25th, 2010
10:32 am

Awright, Mark. I don’t think you like Favre. He is a great talent. I just think that he exhibits narcissistic and manupalitve behavior. The media doesn’t do a good job of calling him out on this as they do T.O.

who cares?

January 25th, 2010
10:32 am

First!!! And I even read the article.

crackbaby

January 25th, 2010
10:32 am

Mark – Is this the point at which you have transitioned 100% from a newspaper columnist (i.e. journalist) to purely an internet blogger? Your “I was right and y’all were wrong” column is disappointingly unprofessional in my opinion. This was the NFC Championship game afterall.

More insightful commentary would be greatly appreciated in the wasteland that is the AJC. Rest in peace Jim Murray (THE model sports columnist).

Bradley from Minn?

January 25th, 2010
10:33 am

Bradley after reading your comments you must be from Minn.I will tell you what…why don’t you get your Yankee ass back to Minn and root for T.Jackson next year!

FAVRE FAN!!

January 25th, 2010
10:36 am

FROM THE LOOKS OF MARK, YOU PROBABLY NEVER WORE A JOCK STRAP OR HELD A FOOTBALL. ALL YOU BIG MOUTHS YOU’RE JUST PISSED BECAUSE YOU DIDN’T MAKE IT THIS FAR. GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE, HEY MARK WHERE’S YOUR RESPECT?

Vikings finish with 4-5 road record

January 25th, 2010
10:36 am

Terry Bradshaw choked up in the pregame show saying Favre was the greatest QB who ever played.

…………..Go Saints…………….

Marty

January 25th, 2010
10:36 am

This is beyond stupid. It takes a lot of never to belittle a guy who’s easily a first-ballot HOFer. You’re an ignorant fool.

Mark H.

January 25th, 2010
10:37 am

Hey Brett

Karma is a bitch.

Regards,

Mark H. Milwaukee, WI

Topp Dogg

January 25th, 2010
10:37 am

I sure would like to work on my stroke with Michelle Wie.

huckleberry

January 25th, 2010
10:37 am

This isn’t a column so much as it is a leftover grudge over not getting picked for the football team in 5th grade

Mark Bradley's Dad

January 25th, 2010
10:39 am

Your mom is overrated!!!

Shawon

January 25th, 2010
10:40 am

Does anyone else see the irony/hilarity in calling Favre overrated by virtue of his performance *in Championship games*? roflmao! I wish the Falcons had such an “overrated” QB who was always blowing championship games…sounds like a nice problem to have!

JacksonvilleDawg

January 25th, 2010
10:40 am

Mark i dont think you watched the game, I dont like Favre but he played very well and I think the Vikings outplayed the Saints in every aspect of the game except the turnovers! They lost not because of him, how about Peterson”fumble on the goal line.

#4

January 25th, 2010
10:41 am

This is the last Mark Bradley article ill ever read. You obviously know nothing about football (I bet you were picked last on the playground, yes after the girls)

85' Bears

January 25th, 2010
10:41 am

I must admit, however, that Farve is a tough SOB. If he’s known as the toughest quarterback ever, than that would be well deserved and accurate.

scott

January 25th, 2010
10:42 am

Mark you are dead on. He is the most overated. I was so giddy when he threw that interception. It proves there is a God. I loved the exagerated limping and arm shaking after he got hit.

Now we will have to go through the will he retire / will he not retire again crap. he will dump on Childress and on and on and on.

Scott

January 25th, 2010
10:43 am

Farve sells a lot of Jersey’s so he must not be overrated, is like says Dale Jr sells the most merchandise and is voted the most popular driver every year so he must be the best driver in Nascar. Give me a break, the Vikings go no where this year without Peterson not necessarily Farve.

david

January 25th, 2010
10:43 am

Wow, what game did you watch ? Farve did more then enough to win that game !

n

January 25th, 2010
10:44 am

This is the best you can do. Come on. A classic game and all you can talk about is your grudge against Favre and how you believe you are right. How about the story of Favre at 40 on the verge of going to the Super Bowl versus NO, site of Katrina, going to their first Super Bowl. What a great game. To say that Favre has not been a great player is naive.

Mike

January 25th, 2010
10:45 am

What a poorly written article. Does this guy know anything about sports???

n

January 25th, 2010
10:45 am

What happened to the days when newspapers actually sent their columnist to theese big games and they actually wrote pieces about the game and the drama.

tlw

January 25th, 2010
10:46 am

I have to ask the question. Who has thrown the most career interceptions in the NFL? The answer: Bret Favre

James

January 25th, 2010
10:47 am

Mark,
I think you really pissed some people off… but not me!

I have to wonder, though: how many people, seeing the Vikes line up for that last play, watching Farve take the snap, roll out right, then pull back to pass, just KNEW that was going to be an interception? I was sitting with five other people, and as soon as I saw him pull back, said “Oh my god–he’s going to throw an interception.” And he did.

Did anybody else think that as soon as the play took off? I can’t be alone with seeing the future there, haha…

steveh

January 25th, 2010
10:49 am

I would say that Favre is the most overrated QB in history. That is not to say he has not been a really good one. Just not as good/great as the media has tended to make him. As some have pointed out he does in fact hold most of the major career passing records. But you also have to consider that he holds the record for throwing the most INTs.

n

January 25th, 2010
10:49 am

“Wrong About Favre? An epic fail enables me to rest my case”

Wow, never seen a columist make the column about themselves like this. Its not an epic failure when your playing for the super bowl. I guess the Falcons were a epic failure of huge proportions. Come one, The Saints are an awesome team in case you missed it.

Benjamin

January 25th, 2010
10:50 am

LOL, Bradley, if I could have dinner with three people, I think it’d be yourself, Smoltz, and Favre at this point.

Brett’s a gunslinger. It’s done things for him in the past, and he wouldn’t have hit his successes (or failures) without it. Last night’s game was partly on his shoulders, but to give him credit, he was both really beaten up in the game — got taken off the field twice, as I recall — and the team didn’t exactly help seal the deal, either. They fumbled three times in Saints territory in the second half, no?

It is what it is. The Saints were a slightly better team going in and playing at home. That’s my general take. Favre isn’t perfect, but he’s a first ballot HOF guy, and that’s okay with me.

74Dawg

January 25th, 2010
10:51 am

Sorry, Mark. You are still wrong. Don’t have time right now to count then ways,but I will get back to you…

Mary

January 25th, 2010
10:53 am

The most over-rated athlete of our time? Really? God good, you’re an idiot. Do you follow sports at all or just pull this stuff out of your butt?

mexdawg

January 25th, 2010
10:57 am

Bradley you are a f#####g idiot.You want to blame somebody how about his offense line that let him get hit over and over again.How he continued to play after some of those shots is beyond me.Let’s also not forget about all the fumbles by the running backs.This guy is one of the best quaterbacks to ever play the game and to have the kind of season he had at 40 is remarkable.You need to go back to Kentucky and cover basketball because you don’t know a damn thing about football.

AndyC

January 25th, 2010
10:57 am

I will admit one thing about Farve. His wife is hot so props to him for that.

matt

January 25th, 2010
10:57 am

Sorry Bradley, once again, you have no clue. The guy holds every record relevant to the QB position. Yes INTs too. The Babe not only held the HR record but the K record too. Think he was overrated. Favre has how many MVPs? 3?

How many fumbles did they have last night…in the redzone…hell within the 10 yard line!!! Was it a dumb pass, yeah.

You’ve obviously never played a sport before Bradley. If you did you would know that no single play loses or wins a game but rather a series of either missed opportunities or capitalized ones. Get a clue you arrogant a$$hole!!!

Officiating, once again, was embarassing.

Najeh Davenpoop

January 25th, 2010
10:59 am

Wow. Hell of a lot of support for a guy who was a complete disgrace as an Atlanta Falcon on and off the field, only to straighten out once he left.

I disagree that Favre is the most overrated athlete of our time — love him or hate him, he has accomplished a lot, and I think that title should apply to people like Danica Patrick who get tons of press coverage and airtime but haven’t done sh-t. But he most definitely is overrated, seeing as how the media refuses to blame him for any mistake he makes and acts like he is perfect.

I wonder how many of the people supporting Favre on this blog criticized people like me for cheering for Michael Vick on Dec. 6. At least Vick managed to take the Falcons to the playoffs a couple of times. Only time Favre came close to doing anything good for the Falcons was during his painkiller-induced dreams. Funny how Vick gets hated on for “destroying the Falcons” or whatever and Favre doesn’t.

Sick & Tired Of Being Sick & Tired

January 25th, 2010
10:59 am

Bradley….Why All The Hate???. I don’t think that anyone that really watched the game last night could say that Bret “really” lost that game. Sure the interception at the end of regulation was a key component in the Vikings lost, but what about all the fumbles, missed tackles, missed opportunities to score in the red zone and the dropped passes???? The Saints defense kept hitting Bret all night long and he kept getting up and continuing to play hard. Hell, if he had taken himself out of the game, then you’d be razing him for that too.

Maybe I missed the news conference, but what have you done Bradley at 39-40 years of age that is comparable??? Waiting for a legitimate response!!!!!

To BRENDA – Get your facts straight ….NEWSFLASH: the Falcons have already been to a Superbowl and it wasn’t Michael Vick that got the team there!!! Yes, the lowly Atlanta Falcons (who you continually try to trash) beat the Saints to a Superbowl appearance…..Bet you thought your boy Vick was going to the Superbowl this year riding the coattails of the Eagles and McNabb…..NOT!!!!! LOL!!!!!

RE

January 25th, 2010
11:02 am

Blogging Fool….operative word “fool”.

Agree that Favre is not the greatest QB ever or even currently playing. He is the Cal Ripken/Iron Man of football. He shows up and plays every game and plays through pain (sometimes to his own detriment). Playing through a sprained ankle could very well be why Favre didn’t tuck the ball in and try to get a few yards on the ground vs. throwing across his body for INT on his last play….we’ll never know. Even if he would have just thrown the ball away, i highly doubt Longwell hits a 57 yard FG. To equate this INT to the NYG/GB one is idiotic.

To say he is most overrated is absolutely ridiculous. There is only one QB each year that is able to hold the Lombardi trophy over his head. I am not sure how someone who has QB’d teams to 23 playoff games and a superbowl win in his career becomes overrated. To put so many teams in the position and on his back to be in the playoffs and be able to compete for a superbowl is the mark of a great player.

Also, consider he is doing this at 40!!! Find another 40 year old QB in the history of the NFL that actually made his team and teammates better…you won’t…Montana and Marino (who btw never won super bowl, wouldn’t he be most overrated????), two of the arguably greatest QBs of all-time were mere shells of themselves in their late 30’s and never made it to 40.

sharon

January 25th, 2010
11:04 am

the most overrated athelete is Maria Sharapova

Get Real

January 25th, 2010
11:04 am

Favre got Minnesota a heck of a lot closer to the Superbowl than how many other Quarterbacks? And, Favre is how old? I don’t think many other QB’s would have kept coming back and getting the hell beat out of him, taped up an ankle and kept playing the way he did! My hat is off to him for his ability and guts to stay in the game! You may not like him but his records will be among the greatest to ever play the game! There are a lot of others on the Vikings team that are way more to blame for their loss!

Bo

January 25th, 2010
11:05 am

Amen, I can’t stand that guy…never could. Although, he did have a much better year that I thought he would.

Smarter than you

January 25th, 2010
11:05 am

Bradley, how many superbowls and championships have you been in? He makes how many dollars and you make how many? The offense other than favre was horrible. They couldn’t hold on to the ball. You are stupid

Mike

January 25th, 2010
11:06 am

I wasnt pulling for either team but it sure looked like some home cooking in OT with the review booth.
4th down- ball knocked back behind the first down yardage marker but give the first down anyway
Reception given to Meachem when it was clear the ground helped him make the “catch”

with super slow mo and HD replays, we get to see just how corrupt the reply booth is.

Sick & Tired Of Being Sick & Tired

January 25th, 2010
11:06 am

Bradley….Why all the hate??? What have you accomplished at 39-40 years of age that is comparable?????

Chris

January 25th, 2010
11:11 am

I will agree that Brett Favre may be a bit overrated but he wasn’t even the most overrated guy on the field last night. Reggie Bush was the number 2 pick in the draft with comparisons to Gale Sayers and has had 4 good games in his entire career. Last week he was quoted as saying Big Time players make big plays in games like these, and this week went out and accounted for 41 total yards of offense which isn’t that bad by his own standards- it’s just about what he averages for his career.

ken hendrix

January 25th, 2010
11:13 am

look at the last pass brett threw for green bay against giants . the last pass as a jet now this one. the interference call was not even close but i think thats the advantage at home they need to change the way interference is called if the vikings had been at home this game would not have been close .,

SOUTHERN ATL

January 25th, 2010
11:14 am

It looks like they still know how to party in Orleans!

http://www.nola.com/saints/index.ssf/2010/01/who_dat_nation_erupts_with_joy.html

UA Alum92

January 25th, 2010
11:15 am

I think the bottom line is that with the game on the line he threw yet another ill-advised pass that ended up as a pick. I also think it’s interesting that the Jets made it further this year than last without him and with a rookie QB.

Bama12

January 25th, 2010
11:16 am

How can you put that loss on Brett and say he cost them the game, lets look at the game as a whole, Brett was not the one supposed to put pressure on Brees and fail to do so. Brett was not on the field in overtime when the defense did not stop the Saints. (add some help by the stripes) Brett had two interceptions and a fumble that was more on AP than Brett, AP put the ball on the ground three times, the super rookie from Florida put the ball on the ground twice, the reciever put the ball on the ground inside the red zone. If brett is so overrated then why does he hold most of the passing records? Why has he lasted 19 seasons in the NFL? Over rated is McNabb but you probly think he’s the greatest. Your an idiot. The VIKING’s lost that game not just Brett.

Tman

January 25th, 2010
11:18 am

WOW Mark, spoken like a man who has not played past High School or not played real football at all. For those who have played the game past high school know it is not won or lost by one individual. Football is a team sport if you didn’t know. To try and portray you know the game please don’t waste our time, this article or column proves you are just another stupid fan that has little insight on how the game is played. Monday morning arm chair QB’s come a dime a dozen. Very few make it as far as Brett has in his career. Very few will make it that far in the future. His long tenure as a starter in the NFL says it all. Keep dreaming and you will still fall short of Brett Farve. Spoken from a person who is not a Farve fan.

Steve Smith

January 25th, 2010
11:18 am

Mark,
Are you still having traders remorse (from the Falcons)? I counted 5 turnovers by the Vikings. Brett had 2 interceptions. The last one caused the game to end regulation in a tie. The Vikings never got the ball in overtime (still wish the NFL would change that rule).

Tebow is #1 Overated

January 25th, 2010
11:19 am

Not even close. Tebow couldn’t even throw for more TD’s than Joe Cox.

Tebow couldn’t beat a top 10 team in 2009 with 22 starters back.

Tebow never beat a top 10 team without Percy Harvin.

Tebow, won the Heisman when he was #58 ranked in rushing, and $25 in passing.

Leak, not Tebow, won the Natl Champ fr Florida Tebow’s 1st year.

Anybody see the Bama beatdown?

Elmore Spencer

January 25th, 2010
11:19 am

I agree Favre is overrated. Only reasone he got that one title is Holmgren was able to control him. Without that you can count on him choking

Wrangler Man

January 25th, 2010
11:19 am

Don’t worry: brett will be making millions more from wrangler jeans ads and start months of debate about whether he’s retiring again or coming back! He loves the attention in the media!!!

Polly

January 25th, 2010
11:19 am

Sorry to say but you are still WRONG!!! Brett is more of man than you will ever be. Took how many hits at 40 and kept on going. How long would you last? It’s easy to sit and write stories. What a job to be prove of.

Elmore Spencer

January 25th, 2010
11:22 am

Im more of a man the Favre.

how did you get to be a sports journalist?

January 25th, 2010
11:22 am

This has to be the worst article of our time. I am not a Vikes/Favre fan (not a Vikes/Favre hater either) but he is definitely not overrated. Mark, its pretty low of you to go so far in order to support your opinion of Favre – which is completely wrong. Yeah he made some mistakes, but he is THE reason that the Vikes made it so far. No question. Yeah he messed up, but the loss can’t fall on his shoulders. If anything, Childress should be blamed for the 12 men on the field penalty…THAT lost the game for the Vikes.

Go Saints.

Najeh Davenpoop

January 25th, 2010
11:24 am

Troy Aikman, Phil Simms, and Emmitt Smith are living proof that having played football at a high level doesn’t have anything to do with your ability as a football analyst.

li'l Boo bRadley

January 25th, 2010
11:25 am

C’mon Mark, if the Vikings hadn’t been penalized on that last series for having twelve men in the huddle (five yards) then they’d have likely run the ball on that 3rd down play. They’d run it on 1st and 2nd and the FG kicker was reportedly “good as gold” from 52 yards in pre-game drills.

I think Favre is a tremendous QB who gets his more-than-fair share of good PR. I also think he’s not the most overhyped. Can you say Dale, Jr. or Anna Can-I-Corner-You?

Benjamin

January 25th, 2010
11:27 am

Understood, Mark.

I’d only want that dinner because it’d allow me to have the comedy of watching you ask Smoltz to pass the potatoes…

Benjamin

January 25th, 2010
11:27 am

…and guys, it’s a blog, not a “sports article.”

Blogs are opinion pieces. Bradley’s got his opinions. Nothing more than that. He’s entitled to ‘em, but they’re more of a read than anything; no need for 1/3 of the reading contingent to yelp and whine every time he puts something up here.

Reid Adair

January 25th, 2010
11:33 am

I understand a lot of folks hate/despise Brett Favre, and they wanted to see him fail. But for the guy to gut it out last night and do everything possible to win the game (other than find someone objective to look at the instant replay reviews) took courage.

When he had to be helped off the field, and then was lying on a table with his hands over his face, I thought for sure he – and the Vikings – were done. But they weren’t.

As for the last drive in regulation, after the penalty, they had to gain some yards. Another run up the middle would have made a very long – and unlikely – field-goal attempt.

Vic

January 25th, 2010
11:34 am

I think Favre believed his own hype going into the game. I could see the head coach talking to him on the sidelines and Favre ignoring him. This game was lost on Favre’s arrogance. Instead of making the right play, he wanted to be the hero, and not give the TEAM a chance. It didn’t all have to rest on his shoulders. I’m sure he wanted to go for the touchdown instead of the field goal in the first place.

Mark Bradleys ego

January 25th, 2010
11:35 am

Congratulations old boy, you have written another winner. Sports fans everywhere love me.

SC Boy

January 25th, 2010
11:37 am

Favre made Sidney Rice. Oh, wait…I think the opposite is the truth. Sidney’s coming of age made Favre.

Stinger

January 25th, 2010
11:37 am

Mark, you have an innate ability to take on some very good ones, Coach Richt and now Brett Favre….Coach Richt has won 10 games a year, and Brett Favre has been a great player for a long time, and has set just about all the records….But you seem to have another way of rating coaches and players other than wins and losses and records….You are the man who watches the fierce battle waging in the valley below, and when the battle is over, you come down into the valley from your hiding place on the mountain, and kill the wounded….

Pulpwood Smith

January 25th, 2010
11:37 am

What an asinine article. YOU are the most overrated sports writer of all time.

Favre on the take

January 25th, 2010
11:40 am

Shaun Payton must have paid Favre, Peterson and the Ref’s to take a dive.Neither New Orleans or Minn and/or it’s players and coaches have any class…..Neither do you Bradley!

ATLRESIDENT

January 25th, 2010
11:40 am

Who is Mark Bradley anyway?

DawgDad

January 25th, 2010
11:42 am

Look, the media coverage of Brett Favre is completely over the top far beyond the threshhold of pure irritation. That said, did we watch the same game? Favre’s interception did NOT cost the Vikings the game; it may have cost them a long shot at winning in regulation, but that’s about the extent of it. Why does everything Favre, positive or negative or neutral, have to be blown 9000 miles out of proportion? This is the Atlanta paper – you’d think our reporters would be far enough removed to demonstrate SOME degree of objective levity.

oldschooldog

January 25th, 2010
11:42 am

Mark,
Vitrol does not become you.

ATLRESIDENT

January 25th, 2010
11:42 am

Mark is THE MOST OVERATED SPORTSWRITER THERE EVER WAS, IS OR WILL BE!

Brett's Retirement Advisor

January 25th, 2010
11:43 am

Brett said he may retire, but will take a “few months” to think about it. He may retire, then come back in August with another team that has a better chance of making the super bowl next year, like the Ravens or New England. Brady’s getting washed up and Brett can step in there if needed and take them to the title!!

Backwoods Burt

January 25th, 2010
11:43 am

Bradley…..do you want to go for a canoe ride?”Squeal like a pig”

Stinger

January 25th, 2010
11:44 am

Vic:
It would have only been a 56 yard attempt….If the Vikings staff felt the kicker could have made it, they wouldn’t have been calling a pass play….The kickoff return in overtime and the other long kickoff return after half time killed the Vikings….along with the fumbles….Favre throws and interception in a no win situation trying to get them in field goal range, and he is the goat???? You should be a spin doctor for Obama and the democrats…..

Samantha

January 25th, 2010
11:44 am

Finally, someone who says it like it is!

Brett Favre is not a team player, unless you count Team Favre. It’s not about his talent, it’s about his attitude. It’s about the fact that he is such an incredible egomaniac, that he can’t stay retired. It’s about the fact that loyalty only goes to himself – not to an organization like Green Bay who helped Brett Favre build himself and grow into the so-called legend he is now. And how does he repay them? He goes to Minnesota with the world’s largest chip on his shoulder to make Green Bay “pay” for what they did to him. Please – if this man held a shred of decency, he would never have gone to Minnesota.

I am so sick of seeing his pompous ego on my TV and I am glad that he’s gone for the season. It’s nice to see that someone actually isn’t bowing before the so-called great Brett Favre and calls it what it is. He’s a joke.

Larry

January 25th, 2010
11:45 am

I dont really agree with the premise, but it’s refreshing to see a journalist take such a firm stance. I dont think Favre sucks or anything, but if he is so good, where are the super bowl wins?

Blind

January 25th, 2010
11:46 am

You cant appreciate brett favre if your not if you dont know what the NFL requires, there is a reason why he is respected by those associated with the NFl. Respected by class guys like Berman and Tom Jackson. Every QB in the NFl is a fan of Favre because of they recognize his accomplishments, and what it took to achieve. …Most over rated athlete of our time? Cmon…all the greats have had their fair share of haters who can spout off negative stats, but dont want to recognize his accomplishments..Evidence….a sure first ballot guy possibly played his last game and all you can do is hate..

dan

January 25th, 2010
11:46 am

Not sure I would call Favre overrated. He’s done it all in this game and is a definite Hall of Famer. But I will say that his ego has gotten the better of him, especially in his later years. And I also blame the owners of the Jets and Vikings who cater to his prima donna behavior. And this crap where Favre vetos the coach and dictates when he plays? What is he a 5 year old? Mike Holmgren would have never put up with that crap in Green Bay nor would Ron Wolfe the former Packers GM. An ego when channeled correctly can accomplish great things, but when its pampered, it rarely leads to championships.When two teams are equal in talent, the team with the better leadership wins. Saints leadership won over Vkings leadership last night. Be that as it may, Favre has been unreal. And when he plays within himself, he’s one of the greatest QB’s of all time.

ACE

January 25th, 2010
11:48 am

Good job Mark. To all of you Favre apolagists, nothing hurts like the truth. There is a reason he’s thrown the most interceptions in the history of the NFL

whiskey bottle

January 25th, 2010
11:50 am

nothin but brett farve haters……you guys are pathetic, maybe brett farve is not that bad he just has that thing called (the atlanta braves curse)……good regular season, cant get over the hill in the playoffs……ever think about that………he’s still one of the best

Jeff R

January 25th, 2010
11:53 am

For all the Cheese Heads that are still upset that Farve is still playing, guess what, professional football is a business. Teams have about as much loyalty to players as players have to teams. Glad Cheese Heads love the Packers, but its all a big business. Get over it.

Bama12

January 25th, 2010
11:54 am

Mt last comment will be this, with out Brett where would the vikings have been during the playoffs? At home watching like normal. The one main constant in all of the blastings toward Brett on this site, his mistakes made while playing in CHAMPIONSHIP games. Where has Green Bay been since Brett the over rated left? No super bowls!! The jets went to the championship game and LOST, is that Brett’s fault too? His super rookie replacement had how many interceptions this year? Do you really think any of the teams Brett has started for would have went to the playoffs without him? Maybee they would the only true test will be where they go without him. The only other player I can recall that gets blamed for all the bad is T.O. and I see the Eagles are still not going to the super bowl, I guess the problem with the eagles was more than one guy, just like the Viking’s loss was a team effort. Should he of thrown that ball/ well now we can say no because we see what the outcome was, how many of us would have been in the spot to make the choice of run on my bad foot or throw a pass that may get caught or may get picked? I know I will never be in that position, probly not any one faulting Brett about his choice either.

bigred

January 25th, 2010
11:54 am

You tell him JT! I agree with everything you said and I think that is why Terry Bradshaw considers him the GREATEST!Brett reminds him of himself.Playing hurt>Not complaining or blaming others.AP fumbling 3 times!Now there’s your over-rated player!You take the bad with the GOOD and Brett gives you every thing he has on every play!That is why they were even playing yesterday for the chance to go to the SUPERBOWL!
GET REAL MB!

GT

January 25th, 2010
11:57 am

Favre was so beat up by the time that overtime cut in. Peterson fumbling on a sure touchdown would have saved Favre a beating like few I have seen at this stage of a playoff game. Generally the lines are a little better and the refs protect a little better. Minnesota is one quarterback from not even being in the playoffs. One quarterback from not being in overtime and if he wasn’t 40 years old he would have won it, but at 40 he damn near did it anyway. Overtime in that mugging is way past most 40 year olds bedtime.

steveh

January 25th, 2010
11:58 am

I don’t think MB ever said that Favre has not been a really good QB in his career. He just said he is overrated. And he is.

Mr. Thomas Anthony "The Taxman Cometh" Jones, SR (Waf-SS, Lt. Colonel, 13th SS Panzer Division based in Berman, Germany/ret.)

January 25th, 2010
12:02 pm

The world ends today, folks. Mr. Mark Bradley and the Taxman agree. I am so glad that Frave screwed up. There needs to be international law enacted globallly that older athlete can not continue to stand in the way of younger player. Just like Bart Strr, Johnny Unitas, Sam Huff, Sammy Baugh, Jim Brown, and Kenny Stabler all retire Favre needs to get out of the players rank in the NFL. And the Vikings should be fined for letting him stand in the way of Mr. Jackson’s development. God menat for us all to be in our own time. If napoleon came back today he would make major in my old unit out in Berman, Grmany! If the Furher came back today he would be a portrait artist in Vienna. God meant for all us to be in our own time and place. Prsident Obama could not have won the election in 1980 and Favre needs to retire from being an active player in the National Football League. Let God/Allah’s will be done.
Good column Mr. Bradley. Keep it up! Congratulations to you from the Taxman!

GT

January 25th, 2010
12:02 pm

One more thought that one quarterback might have put Minnesota in the Falcon’s playoff position. We didn’t miss by much.

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tell it like it is

January 25th, 2010
12:04 pm

I have been watching pro football for a long time and i think favre has had a remarkable career.I don’t think that hes the best to ever play the game,i think that honor goes to archies oldest boy.

Saints and Favre fan

January 25th, 2010
12:05 pm

I love Brett Favre! Now, last night I did wish him all the bad luck (except injury) the could get. (GEAUX SAINTS) I will never say that Brett Favre is the most overrated player. I’d say that Reggie Bush is up there. He only shows up for a few games a season. Brett leaves it all on the field and I respect that.

Ron Mexico

January 25th, 2010
12:06 pm

And the most over-rated sports writer award goes to… Mark Bradley. Favre didn’t lose that game, moron.

Minnesota Heimlich's

January 25th, 2010
12:10 pm

The choke franchise brings in the choke quarterback and lo and behold……..they choke again. You can’t make this stuff up!!!

tell it like it is

January 25th, 2010
12:13 pm

Hey Mark—-don’blame the carpenter blame the toel

Mark Fatley

January 25th, 2010
12:18 pm

Don’t worry about the dinner guest Mark, no one would want to eat with a stinky asshole like you anyway.

Lesna Smada

January 25th, 2010
12:18 pm

The Favre is what he has always been – selfish. When all he had to do was run five steps and let the kicker win it – he couldn’t. He had to have that spotlight on himself.

The guy is like so many other self-centered men. Remember that Monday night in Oakland? Remember how the green and gold rained love on this man and followed him to the best 30 minutes of football ever played? And what did The Favre do… dumped them to pursue his own glory. Sort of like some men do after their wives have stayed home raising the kids and hosting the parties – trade them in for the fresh and the young… trying to recapture their youth.

Nope. The Favre isn’t into team. The Favre is into The Favre. And that is what made him the biggest goat in sports last night. Ain’t no “i” in team Bret.

SECfan

January 25th, 2010
12:19 pm

Brett Favre= washed up, white trash

atlantadomer

January 25th, 2010
12:22 pm

Mark, I’m with you. I made a prediction back in 2003 that looked like a lock until this year about A-Rod and the Yankees never winning a championship as long as he was there. Took 6 years, but they finally did it. I thought I was wrong about this one with Favre, but as soon as I saw his little head turn toward the middle of the field on that roll out I sighed to my wife, “whew, at least Favre won’t let me down like A-Rod did.” And surely as a south Georgia summer is unbearable, he violated a cardinal rule of quarterbacking.
Minnesota fans, you knew what this was when you started that relationship. You knew what he was capable of – and you took the chance didn’t you?

ZacheryGoldsmith

January 25th, 2010
12:24 pm

Its unfortunate that Brett Farve and the Vikings lost yesterday. They completely and thoroughly dominated the Saints. The only problem was they were sloppy with the football and had too many turnovers. They continued fumbling it and mishandling it all day long (just like the Saints did), which ultimately contributed to the Vikings losing the football game. However I dont think that is why the Vikings lost. I believe Brett Farve was the person at fault for the loss. On his last play for the Vikings before OT, he rolled out to his right and daylight was directly in front of him. Had he ran the ball downfield for about 5 yards or so instead of trying to force a throw and a subsequent interception, in spite of the 6 fumbles and 2 picks; the Vikings would have been playing in the superbowl; and that is inspite of a costly penalty at the end with too many players in the huddle. That penalty hurt the Vikings as well. But they would have overcome it had Farve made a better decision and run down field for at least 5 or maybe 15 years getting into his field goal kickers range. I believe Farve’s team would have beat the Saints and they would have beat the Colts in the Superbowl giving Farve his coveted superbowl championship. Farve came within seconds of pulling off the victory over the saints. For that I give him a bunch of credit because no other team manhandled the Saints as much as the Vikings did yesterday. A great performance for the ages. I dont care what anyone says about Brett Farve; he showed why he was the man of steel yesterday. Farve got butchered all afternoon by the Vikings. They were putting vicious licks on him all day..There was one play where he got crushed when he was hit high and low on the same play and then a defender fell on top of him. I thought he was dead under the pile. Brett went over to the sidelines,layed out on a stretcher and was taped while the Saints had the ball. As soon as the Vikings got the ball back on offense within minutes, #4 was ready to go. Anybody else would have probably had to go to the hospital, but not Brett Farve. Brett Farve is the ultimate warrior and as I mentioned he made one mistake in that football game that cost him his superbowl berth. When he rolled out on the last play that the Vikings had the ball on offense Farve should have ran down the field for at least 5 years and the Vikings would be playing in the superbowl this year. Thats how close Brett Farve came to realizing his dreams and thats why he came back to play football. The legend of Brett Farve grew immensely yesterday and will continue on for ever.

ATLdawg, ya dawg.

January 25th, 2010
12:28 pm

favre’s a warrior. quintessential man in the arena. In case you had lost sight, that was the NFC championship game. That was a pinnacle, a great height, with a rarefied air that squirelly little bloggers will never breathe in. Mark Bradley, willingly, smugly, pathetically, you are TR’s dreaded “critic”: http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html

tell it like it is

January 25th, 2010
12:30 pm

Sec fan—anybody that would post something like that or say something like that about a player thats had the carear like favre has had is an idiot or is just strait up dumb.

JET

January 25th, 2010
12:31 pm

The Saints came out to play with one mission in mind, i.e., TAKE BRET FAVRE DOWN OR HURT HIM. It was so unnecessarily SAD how they attacked him in their effort to win a game. The SAINTS are CRAB IN A BARREL. I hope they get when they deserve in MIAMI, A BUTT WHIPPING and HUMBLE THEIR SORRY AZZ.

sandersize

January 25th, 2010
12:33 pm

mark your not a sports writer, your an opinion writer. Sports writers know numbers and if you were one you would appreciate everything Brett has done in his career. PLEASE RETIRE Sport fans who watched that game saw one of the most competetive football players keeping his team in the game,even though they as a team had a bad game., they still almost won the game,

Ricky

January 25th, 2010
12:33 pm

You are way out of touch. You have a 40 year old Quarterback that has played hurt and was knocked around in this game. I have seen many of your so called good players go to the locker room and miss the rest of the game. Brett has played hurt thru his career and you want to put the blame on him for losing a game. What about the other players that could not hold onto the ball. You want to talk about overrated , how about Peterson? No mention there?

Mike

January 25th, 2010
12:33 pm

I’m no fan of Favre, but Michael Vick is clearly the most overrated….even before his true colors showed.

jeff t

January 25th, 2010
12:35 pm

run, throw it away, run out of bounds….kick the field goal and go to the super bowl. no I in team, two in IdIot

martin

January 25th, 2010
12:38 pm

Thanks Mark! Favre has always thought he’s bigger than the game. I hope he retires for good so I don’t have to endure another season with the Brett Favre show. Good article.

johnny reb

January 25th, 2010
12:38 pm

Brett “Redneck, drunk, drug addict, No I in Team” Favre the Raiders are calling on line 1. He is no Johnny Utah!

tarheels3

January 25th, 2010
12:45 pm

Buddy you really like kicking a man when he is down, The Vikings lost that game not Farv. Are you one of those guys who never played sports in your life and I totally disagree with you and your article. You need to check yourself before you write an article like this and by the way what are your accomplishments?

joe

January 25th, 2010
12:48 pm

Amen Bradley!!! You said it well. Hopefully he will retire so we don’t have to see or hear about him.

And the ESPN guys would NEVER critize “one” of their own–NEVER.

Bama12

January 25th, 2010
12:48 pm

ok one more, this is for ACE, maybe he has more int’s because he has more attempts than any body else to go along with 7,968 more yards (69,329 total yards)than #2 QB Dan Marino and 1,116 more completions (6,083 total completions) and 77 more TD’s (497 total TD’s). Dan Marino is 2nd in all of these stats and he is considered to be one of the best ever yet he never won a superbowl. Over rated Brett has won a superbowl. and only 10 QB’s have ever won more than one superbowl.

Andrew

January 25th, 2010
12:48 pm

Mark, Did you completely miss the stat that came up during the came that said Brett just passed Joe Montana for all time passing yards!?!? Or did you miss that too? Overrated? REALLY? Maybe your an overrated sports writer! I cant beleive you wouldve even said that. Next time you want to write an article like this, Sit back, take a deep breath an think about what your going to write. 3 can I can again 3 Ok one more time 3 FUMBLES!!! That went back to the Saints, Almost 4 but thank god someone from the viks fell on it. Just like everyone has been saying about the keith brooking comment that he made, “If a defense doesnt like a team scoring then for gods safe STOP THEM!!!! An thats the same for the viks team, 3 FUMBLES by the offense an, an overtime score by the saints! Gets your facts straight before you blame only one man for a loss.

JASon

January 25th, 2010
12:49 pm

Hey Ricky at 12:33, don’t you think it is arrogant of someone to continue playing when they are injured? Why would you want your injury to cause a mistake and cost your team a big game? Not to mention what he did to the entire Jets organization last season by playing injured. This is the essence of Brett Favre’s arrogance. He is human waste, a dark, scum of a person, who deserves nothing but the worst kind of hate.

RT

January 25th, 2010
12:49 pm

I personally think that you are the MOST OVERRATED SPORTS WRITER OF ALL TIME. Minnesota self destructed with fumbles and missted blocks and you like most know nothing fans want to blame the quarteback. That games should never gone into overtime. Minnesota self destructed. I really think that you are just a $hit $tirrer.

Brian

January 25th, 2010
12:49 pm

Yep 310 consecutive starts, 181 wins, 497 career TDs, almost 70,000 yards, over 6,000 completions, 241 games with at least one TD, 61 300 yard games, 185 games with 20+ completions, 18 straight seasons with 3,000 yards, which are all records, I guess you nailed it right on the head when you said he was overrated. Just because YOU don’t like him doesn’t mean you can take away his credit as a football player. Any real sportswriter would know that, but the AJC seems to lack that anyways.

dan

January 25th, 2010
12:49 pm

JET,

Cry me a river. What were the Saints supposed to do? Let him stand in the pocket and pick them apart all day? The rules protect NFL QB’s so much these days, so when defenders can take a shot at the QB they’ll do it. The Saints lit Warner up last week after that INT in the second quarter and I thought it was glorious! I’m so stick of these QB’s being allowed to throw for 300-400 yards while most of the penalties are called against defenders. It’s so bogus. This is tackle not flag football.

Brian

January 25th, 2010
12:55 pm

Yep 310 consecutive starts, 181 wins, 497 career TDs, almost 70,000 yards, over 6,000 completions, 241 games with at least one TD, 61 300 yard games, 185 games with 20+ completions, 18 straight seasons with 3,000 yards, which are all records, I guess you nailed it right on the head when you said he was overrated. Just because YOU don’t like him doesn’t mean you can take away his credit as a football player. Any real sportswriter would know that, but the AJC seems to lack that anyways.

LadyAtl

January 25th, 2010
12:55 pm

Mark My Hero !! Are you hiding yet ………….Am so happy you said it. Brett Chocked and boy was i waiting for it ! ! Got to give to the Ol Man ,he tried.

RT

January 25th, 2010
12:57 pm

Who is Johnny Utah?

Bama12

January 25th, 2010
12:57 pm

johnny reb you should check the stats for the colts in superbowl #3. Johnny utah was not so great in that game after Earl Morrall threw 3 ints Johnny U came in and had 11 of 24 for 110 yards and 1 int no TD’s and the heavily favored Colts went down to the Jets and broadway Joe was MVP

hbspd416

January 25th, 2010
1:03 pm

These stats are from Wikipedia, so I have not double checked with the NFL, but lets look at Favre’s records …. hmm yeah, he looks like an average quarterback to me !!! Bradley, do some homework! If you want to claim he’s over-rated, then state it and justify what makes you think that. But the most over-rated player? Pretty melodramatic and no way you could even come close showing justification as an “expert” to that opinion.

Favre currently possesses most of the well-known NFL career records for quarterbacks, including:

Most consecutive AP NFL MVP awards: 3 (1995, 1996, 1997)[19]
Most consecutive starts by a quarterback (NFL): 286[7] (308 including playoffs)
Most consecutive starts by a player at any position: 286
Most wins by a starting quarterback (NFL) regular season career: 181[7] (Regular season record: 181-104)
Most career passing touchdowns: 497 [3][5]
Most career passing yards: 69,329[5]
Most career pass completions: 6,083[1][7]
Most career pass attempts: 9,811[2][7][20]
Most career interceptions thrown: 317 [5][21]
Most career games with at least three touchdowns: 67 [22]
A victory recorded in the most different NFL stadiums: 32[23]
Most career playoff pass attempts: 745
Most career playoff pass completions: 481[24] [25]
Most career playoff passing yards: 5,855[24]
(2nd) Most career playoff passing touchdowns: 44[24] (Montana, 45)[25]

Not to mention a couple of Superbowl appearances, one of them a win.

Yep, looks like a bum to me….please!

Gary

January 25th, 2010
1:05 pm

Of course he lost the game, he threw an interception when he had a perfectly wide open man next to the sideline on the side he was running to he could have thrown to that was a sure thing that would have cinched the field goal try as good as any throw would have. Brett had to show off his tricks last week instead of being content to win the game handily, but no, he has to always be an ars, which is why they went out of their way in New Orleans to break his ars. You coolaid drinkers for Favre will never change, it is obvious that Peyton Manning is the best quarterback ever, Terry Bradshaw just said his nonsense because that’s all he knows to do to get attention now. That, he figures, keeps him on TV.

JT

January 25th, 2010
1:18 pm

I wonder did anybody else here really WATCH the game or were you just looking at it? Bret Farve underrated???? You gotta be kidding me! let me say this, it’s obvious he threw the interception that blew it, but if it wer enot for those 3 fumbles by Adrian Peterson and 1 by Percy harvin, the game would not have had to get to that point. TWO OF THOSE FUMBLES WERE NEAR THE SAINT’S GOAL LINE!!

Kashi

January 25th, 2010
1:18 pm

OVERRATED? You are calling this base on last night loss? WHY NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THE MISS CALLS AND BAD CALLS BY ZEBRAssssssssss? Lets do a count, How many bad calls were there? And how many did they miss?

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January 25th, 2010
1:20 pm

I wonder did anybody else here really WATCH the game or were you just looking at it? Bret Farve underrated???? You gotta be kidding me! let me say this, it’s obvious he threw the interception that blew it, but if it wer enot for those 3 fumbles by Adrian Peterson and 1 by Percy Harvin, the game would not have had to get to that point. TWO OF THOSE FUMBLES WERE NEAR THE SAINT’S GOAL LINE!! Who’s fault is that? Certainly not Brett’s! Hell no he’s not overrated….that’s just what a true hater would say and that’s ok. They’re(haters)are entitled to their own opinion and that’s cool…but Brett did not lose that game man….

Just Wondering

January 25th, 2010
1:20 pm

Mr. Bradley, did you not watch the game? Brett played heroically! Hit over 15 times and still gunning. Man! Awesome! They should have never been in that position anyway. That game was there’s. The young boys gave it up with the fumbles.

Choker Brett

January 25th, 2010
1:21 pm

Favre choked in a big game just like with the jets and green bay. He’s won 1 title, but some act like he’s a sports superstar. being old and playing a long time doesn’t make you great.

Bulldog Stuck in FL

January 25th, 2010
1:23 pm

Greatfully this internet article is just an opinion column. The thing about opinions are like arm pits… you fill in the rest. Brett Farve brought a good team to a playoff contending level. Subtract 5 turnovers and it’s a Vikings vs Colts Superbowl. I vaguely remember another team that suffered an average of 4-5 turnovers per game as well, and the overwhelming majority of those were INTs.

Mark just wants to draw attention to himself so he can win the “I have more readers” competition at AJC. In my opinion (as much as it may stink) ESPN analysts are better than this guy and everyone knows ESPN analysts suck!

Nuff Said! Go DAWGS!

Packer Fan

January 25th, 2010
1:28 pm

Now the rest of the country knows what Packer fans have known for years….Brett will lose as many games as he’ll win for you. Bad decisions are sometimes saved by his superb athletic ability, but oft times his errant judgements have led to costly mistakes and turnovers. You gotta take the bad with the good when you have Brett.

Personally, I think he’s a hell of a guy….but I’m glad he’s Minnesota’s nightmare now. He can wear a Viking jersey when he’s inducted into the Hall of Fame….He doesn’t deserve to be in Packer Green and Gold.

wheelz007

January 25th, 2010
1:29 pm

WHO DAT!

tryanx

January 25th, 2010
1:29 pm

Guys, for those of you who are looking at a legacy for Brett may be we should compare apples to apples. I have looked up Brett’s career stats on NFL.com and there are at least four players off the top of my head that are better. Peyton Manning Has better stats and has a chance to win his second Super Bowl (Bret Favre has never done that) Tom Brady’s stats are better and he has 3 rings. Joe Montana has better stats and he has 4 rings. That is not to say Bret is not good but the accolades just do not add up. Every team he has played for (except my falcons) has gotten better after he left. He made not be the most over rated but he is also definitely not one of the greatest either.

Bill Jenkins

January 25th, 2010
1:30 pm

Very sad and very hateful writing. You harbor much hate and that’s fine with me because it just consumes your soul… I wouldn’t be surprised if Mark Bradley beats the hell out of his wife for exhibiting such hatred.

The Vikings made plenty of mistakes and Favre’s final mistake is just one of many costly errors that blew the game. But only ignorant people will focus on the one key play at the end and ignore that a long field goal, even with a good kicker, is no guarantee.

Putting in 7 points but fumbling the ball instead (Adrian Peterson) is just as unforgivable as a Favre pick. Favre is not over-rated by any means. If Dru Brees loses to the colts in the Superbowl, does he become over-rated as well? Marino never won a superbowl and played terribly in key situations…is he overrated?

Get a real job, pal. And enroll in anger management classes ASAP.

Bulldog Stuck in FL

January 25th, 2010
1:30 pm

Pardon my spelling errors… didn’t proof read before hitting the Submit button

S Co

January 25th, 2010
1:40 pm

I love Brett but who cares about him right now. The Saints(my hometown team) did their job and now we’re going to the Super Bowl for the first time in franchise history. So suck it up and move on. The two best football teams of the 2009-10 season are the only thing that matters.

tryanx

January 25th, 2010
1:40 pm

Hey nimrod or should I say hbspd416, did you forget the stat about his 371 ints or maybe the 85.6 QB rating oh yea and one ring. Please do not put him into the same category as Joe Montana, Tom Brady, or Peyton Manning. He is an average to Good Quarter back who played a long time.

Doug Roberts

January 25th, 2010
1:42 pm

It doesn’t matter how many good records Favre has. Remember he’s also got that interception record. That’s what counts. Real life isn’t about heroes. It’s about normal people who don’t try to be heroes. Heroes win in mythological stories. In real life, heroes are defeated because they overrate their abilities. It doesn’t matter who you are, throwing across the field like that is a stupid unnecessary risk to take.

Blake

January 25th, 2010
1:43 pm

Mark, Ok, maybe he’s not THE most overrated, but he’s pretty darn close. It was only a matter of time before he did what he always does -tries to win it all by himself and in doing so, loses it all by himself…

Hunter

January 25th, 2010
1:50 pm

Ding Bat … take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Favre#Professional_career and explain again your pathetic logic about Brett being overrated? Who the hell are you anyway .. never heard of you … you are a blogging fool …

D A

January 25th, 2010
1:51 pm

Mark, I have long been a Brett Favre hater (I admit he is great but not as great as the football heads make him), but that was not his fault. I think that was bad organization on the coaches part. That was the biggest sequence of the season for the Vikings and to have a 12 man on the field penalty was inexcusable. I think the interception was irrelvent because if he hits a shorter pass it is still a hard field goal ( >48 yds)

Mike

January 25th, 2010
1:59 pm

Wow Doug Roberts…its a good thing that you are absolutely full of it, or otherwise there wouldn’t be a single real-life story of inspiration or courage in the history of the world. We should all aspire to be non-heroic dull dimwits as yourself.

Bradley is a moron

January 25th, 2010
2:00 pm

The most overrated sports writer of all time is Mark Bradley. How does this idiot have a job after writing such a lousy article. What a moron

BigBam11

January 25th, 2010
2:05 pm

I have mixed emotions about the game, because I am definitely not a Saints fan, but congrats to them for making it and to an outstanding season. But to call Brett Favre overrated, Are U Serious???? He was not the only one that screwed up. Peterson is the one overrated. If superglue on the gloves were legal then the Saints would not have stood a chance. I don’t know what the future plans are for Brett but if he truly calls it quits for REAL this time then truly a job well done and young quaterbacks should aspire to reach a fraction of his accomplishments. With all that being said, Saints fans can hang it up. Manning is a quarterback’s quarterback and will not make those mistakes and put on a clinic to bring glory to my wife’s team. The Indianapolis Colts. I’m looking forward to a good SuperBowl. Mark I’m not calling you and idiot, just a HATER!!!

OneFreeMan

January 25th, 2010
2:06 pm

The best to play the position by far. I was not a Brett Favre fan but, I have to admit there has been none like him and I doubt if there will be another. He one tough man. The coach should not have put the ball in his hands.

The Falcons traded him… LMAO

Keep playing Brett.

Here's the call of the play...

January 25th, 2010
2:13 pm

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/images/01/25/FavreINT.mp3

IlliniDawg

January 25th, 2010
2:15 pm

Hey I got a lot of traction with some of the names on my early morning post (3:50) – Michelle Wie, Mike Vick, and Dale Jr.

But what about some of the others? Barry Bonds? Marion Jones? Both exposed as steroid-enhanced, self-obsessed frauds.

Andy Roddick? Bode Miller? Aleen Iverson? Ridiculously, hyper-talented guys who never seem to come close to getting everything out of that talent.

Jodie

January 25th, 2010
2:17 pm

She’s cleaning up now so she might not be that late.

Shepard

January 25th, 2010
2:34 pm

Mr. Mark Bradley, yes favre threw the pick but he thought he could make a play and thats life, talking about overated your writing is over-rated, the man made a mistake and he did does more than you ever will.

eaglevet

January 25th, 2010
2:41 pm

Overrated??? I don’t think he is overrated. He didn’t blow the game. They were already in a bad place for a high chance field goal because of the penalty on the previous play. Thats one of they reasons why they to throw the ball. His pick didn’t determine the outcome of the game. Because they still could have missed the winning field goal and the game went into overtime. The saints didn’t win off of the int. The int sent it into overtime. Not to mention that there were four fumbles that played a huge part in the outcome for the vikings.

NOLA

January 25th, 2010
2:48 pm

Who dat, who dat who dat say gonna beat ‘em saints? not the darn ‘cons cause the ‘cons are still basking in the gloryy of back to back winning seasons.

Who dat, who dat?

winston in wyoming

January 25th, 2010
2:55 pm

no terry bradshaw is the most overrated…an average qb with unbelievable talent

CherylWilson

January 25th, 2010
3:05 pm

JET: I agree with your comments. I really used to have a lot of respect for the Saints going into the football championship game with the Vikings, but I have lost all respect for them. I no longer want the Saints to win the superbowl. The Saints got OUTPLAYED by the Vikings by a country mile. Final stat sheet: total offense: Saints:257 yards; Vikings: 475 yards! The Vikings generated almost twice the offense of the Saints and I didnt think that was possible. Its good enough just for the Saints to get there. I dont want the saints hoisting championship trophies or getting fitted for championship rings. They dont deserve it. They are a bunch of thugs and assasins. The saints pretty much had a bullseye over Farves head the entire afternoon as they were trying to hit the target all afternoon, punch his lights out and put him out of his misery. The saints were intentionally trying to injure Farve and they succeeded. Farve ended up on a stretcher getting taped up on the sidelines. But to Farves credit, he didnt miss one offensive play the entire afternoon. What a champion Brett Farve is. This game with the Saints will only add to Farves legacy. Farves play this season all year as well as his gutty performance in yesterdays game made a believer out of me. I believe in Brett Farve and I am glad he came out of retirement to grace us with his presence one more time. I dont agree with the way he handled it and how he held the Vikings hostage until August before notifying them of his intention to play for them, but the legend of Brett Farve was stabilized yesterday and I wish him nothing but the best in the future whether he comes back or not. THE FARVE WATCH IS ON.

Jim

January 25th, 2010
3:09 pm

I think Favre’ play last night was generally impressive, but do check out “Favre Rules For All” that Mark suggests. It really captures to absurd pro-Favre swoon in certain corners of the media.

http://twitter.com/search?q=%23ESPNFavreRulesForAll

Yohan

January 25th, 2010
3:12 pm

The greatest QB ever wouldn’t turn the ball over 3 times in a playoff game when the game mattered.

MetsFan2009

January 25th, 2010
3:37 pm

Mark, until you lead a team to two Super Bowls (winning one of them), break every passing record known to mankind,and on top lead your team to two NFC championship games in four years (with two different teams, no less, after turning 36 years old) you really ought to keep your big mouth shut. Brett Favre showed more character and guts yesterday in four hours than most athletes do in a life time, not to mention more than most columnists like yourself do. Try getting slammed into Astroturf by linebackers two weeks in a row, so much that half your body is purple from bruises, and then we can talk. Meanwhile, if you want to write about over rated jocks, you have about 2 decades worth of Atlanta Braves players and coaches you can write about every day. Oh, and by the way, how did the Falcons do in the playoffs this year? You disgust me!

ADL

January 25th, 2010
3:52 pm

No, Brett Favre didn’t lose the NFC Championship all by himself, but if they Vikings ahd won you can be sure the talking heads would have made it sound like he won it by himself. Go home and stay there Brett!!!

John in Seminole

January 25th, 2010
3:53 pm

Several things. . .

Favre is a great qb. He is in the room as far as the discussion of the greatest QB ever is concerned. He is tough and has great endurance. That said, he is a diva, an egomaniac, and can make bad decisions at the worst possible time.

The INT was a fundamentally bad decision, not just a bad throw at a bad time. I can understand him being a little gunshy about running, however, given the beaten he had taken (sliding was no guarantee of safety the way the Saints were taking cheap shots at him). He wanted to win the SB, not watch his backup play in it while he was in traction. Of course, why blame Farve only? Where’s the love for the Saint that actually did the INT. Of course, the Vikings were not in a good position for a field goal. Nevertheless, I’m sure the Vikings fans who would’ve preferred a 57 yard FG try to the INT number in the hundreds of thousands (at least). The guy did make a 57 yarder in his career before, and with the adrenalin coursing, distance may not have been a problem.

Never heard of Johnny Utah. Obviously the poster is referring to Johnny Knoxville.

I was sick of Favre after all the hype about him. So I was definitely rooting for the Saints. I’m still glad that Favre lost, considering his behavior toward Chilly (btw, Chilly’s “playing for overtime” is almost understandable, given Favre’s history and what actually happened, and Petersen’s and the rest of the Vikings’ fumbles). I will admit that I had more respect for Favre after watching him take that beating, although I also felt sorry for him somewhat. In today’s age, Farve is a perceived throwback. When you watch a player like Manning, you see how cerebral the game has become, and Favre at least seems to buck that trend. Overrated. Yes. The most overrated today? No.

He is in the room as far as the best ever is concerned. But he is not the best ever. The final test is coolness under ultimate pressure. And he has not passed that test overall, and he did fail it big time yesterday. The best QB’s are the one’s you just get that sick feeling in your stomach if you go against them because you know they’re going to find a way, especially when they’re tied or behind in the closing minutes. Joe Montana and Tom Brady have passed that test, along with John Elway and Terry Bradshaw. Joe Montana gets my vote as the best ever.

An aside about Bush: no matter how few yards he gained yesterday, he almost earned his money by finagling that reception into a TD. With a 4th and goal looming if he didn’t do it, his TD may have been the difference as things turned out.

As for the Saints, my happiness at their victory is fading. They got loved by the refs in OT. And they played classless football yesterday. They played the man, not the ball. They didn’t care less if the play was over or not. Comparable to the Brady Pats beating the Colts the first time in the AFC Championship game by raping their receivers. Speaking of the Colts, that’s who I will be rooting for in the SB.

Rickster

January 25th, 2010
3:54 pm

My ode to Brett Favre (with my apologies to Gen. Larry Pratt.

“a$$ on the ground. a$$ on the ground. Looking all stupid with your a$$ on the ground.
Chased across the field, running sideways. Going for win. Throw it to the other team.”

“Looking all stupid with your a$$ on the ground! Give it up!”

Billdawg

January 25th, 2010
3:58 pm

Let’s back off the heroic hyperboly. Heroic is walking patrol in Bagdhad, rushing into a burning building, not playing football for millions of dollars.

Brian G in Illinois

January 25th, 2010
4:05 pm

Brett Favre is one of the greatest athletes of all time. He hasn’t missed a day of work in 20 years….beaten down by 300 lb. defensive linemen on a weekly basis. A champion isn’t always defined by someone who wins super bowls, world series, etc… Champions are people with big hearts, desire, passion and leadership. Brett made some mistakes, but he gave 110% every single day.

And by the way, I bet Mr. Favre made more money this year on Wrangler jeans commercials than you will make in your entire life.

Go away…write about flowers or pumpkins. I bet you got picked last in kickball when you were little. Guys like you HATE guys like Brett Favre!

brian

January 25th, 2010
4:11 pm

Mark,

If that is all you saw in the game yesterday, then you’ve got some Brett Farve anamosity axe to grind or you are one plain ignorant sprots writer. Did you tell Tom Watson that he choked last year at the British Open. The one thing I interpreted from your column is those that can’t…..well you know who you are. Dude, you’re lame.

John in Seminole

January 25th, 2010
4:12 pm

One big flaw in Brett Favre’s leadership: leading your teammates by example by reasonably listening to your coach. Something Brett Favre didn’t do.

VickSwitchHitter

January 25th, 2010
4:18 pm

Brett Farve messed up yesterday. As a fellow blogger pointed out earlier and it was the simplest explanation Ive heard so far, ALL BRETT HAD TO DO ON HIS FINAL ROLLOUT PLAY WHERE HE THREW AN ILLADVISED PICK WAS TO HOLD ONTO THE FOOTBALL AND SIMPLY TAKE ABOUT 5 MORE STEPS AND GET OUT BOUNDS. HAD HE DONE THAT, and if the field goal kicker had made the 47-50 yard field goal, THE VIKINGS WOULD BE PLAYING IN THE SUPERBOWL AGAINST THE COLTS. In addition, Brett Farve might have been named MVP of the league this season along with picking up MVP superbowl honors after beating the Colts and hoisting the Vince Lombardy trophy (superbowl championship), had the Vikings gone on to defeat the Colts, which they would have. Its really unfortunate because that is why Brett came out of retirement to do those things and he came so close to getting to do them. It hurts because I AM A HUGE BRETT FARVE FAN and Brett is such a gladiator and a warrior. I am really choked up about it right now, but Brett Farve didnt CHOKE.

BigBam11

January 25th, 2010
4:21 pm

@ Rickster. Toooooo Funnnnyyyy

Russ the interim

January 25th, 2010
4:37 pm

Can we get an interim writer for Bradley?

MarkSilverstein

January 25th, 2010
4:56 pm

I think the Minnesota Vikings are cursed. I remember back in 1998 when the Falcons were playing them in nfc championship game (the only year in the falcons existence of every playing in the superbowl) where the Viking had a chance to win the game in regulation. Gary Anderson was an extremely accurate field goal kicker and he had made all of his field goals kicks for the entire year (100%). By an incredible fate of bad luck and a complete fluke, he missed a chip shot field goal kick in the closing seconds that would have given the Vikings a superbowl berth. Instead the game went into overtime and the Falcons eventually won when they held the Vikings scorless in overtime and got the ball back and went down the field and kicked the winning field goal. That was a heartbraking loss for the Vikings and they probably would have won the superbowl since they had the team with the best record that year.

Joe

January 25th, 2010
5:07 pm

Adrian Peterson coughed up the ball 3 TIMES!!!! And ran for ZERO yards on 12 different carries. If he doesn’t fumble 3x, and you think the Vikings could have just scored 3 ponts from his fumbles, then it is Peterson’s fault.

CiscoIE

January 25th, 2010
5:26 pm

Brett is an ultimate choker. He’s like the Great Pumpkin. You get all hyped up and he never shows. Adrian Petersons’ fumbles did not cause a change of possession. As a matter of record, the last one gained him 7 yards. But he sucks too

Ken Stallings

January 25th, 2010
5:32 pm

Mark,

You’re joking right? I mean you can’t serious be saying leading your team to the NFC Championship constitutes an “epic” failure?

Sometimes, it is best merely to admit a mistake and move on. To foolishly insist you are right amid all evidence to the contrary is the “hobgoblin of small minds!”

What Favre did was pretty damn impressive by all measures. If he decides to retire, he’s merely added one more rich chapter to his Hall of Fame resume. Certainly he could have handled the interim period better, but that’s a separate issue.

In terms of how he played this season, it was pretty darn excellent, putting him in the small circle of people seriously talked about for league MVP. If that doesn’t rate well on your performance scale, then you are indeed being petty and irascible.

Ken Stallings

January 25th, 2010
5:33 pm

Make that first line read: “… be seriously be saying …”

chad

January 25th, 2010
6:37 pm

Mark, you are an a$$. the only way you could hate a person as much as you do is to love him a little bit. Favre may not always make the best decisions but his skill is unquestioned,as is his love for football, and desire to win.

Dr Richard Handler

January 25th, 2010
7:00 pm

Blaming the fumbles on him too, huh? Come on! Adrian Peterson lost the game! It would’ve been in the bag had the n.n. not fumbled in the red zone. Oh I’m sorry that was favre’s fault.

Longar1947

January 25th, 2010
7:02 pm

Whats wrong with Farve? I’am 63 and have the same problems.

Jeff

January 25th, 2010
7:23 pm

Mark – gimme a break – most people would have been in the hospital by the 2nd or 3rd quarter with the beating Farve took. The guy is tough as nails, and still nearly won with what was a poor performance overall by the Vikings, and a disaster of a performance by the Minnesota O Line

Farve played great all season – I hope he can give it one more try, but this time with some O linemen who can block.

By they way, where was Jared Allen in all of this – seemed invisible.

J.

David3737

January 25th, 2010
7:27 pm

From the small town of Kiln,where he was raised, to the Sporting News recognizing Favre as one of the 100 “Good Guys” in sports.
At four years old Brett was hit in the head with a baseball bat! Brett Favre did not even cry!!
Favre claims if he ever did cry, he did it because he figured he was supposed to—not because it hurt.
When he wasn’t in school he was either playing sports, practicing for sports,helped him alot!.
Find out more about this great guy from this article I read about him!

http://ketiva.com/Sports/the_biography_of_brett_favrethe_life_of_a_legend.html

Paddy O

January 25th, 2010
7:43 pm

Mark is a typcial bandwagon writer here in GA. A lot of bluster but little insight and less fact/reality. Brett Favre is one of the best. I personallly like Staubach & Montana better, and respect Bradshaw a lot. But Favre is in the top 5 – he broke two Montana playoff records last night. It was a shame that he lost the game in regulation, but you take the good & the bad; the only way Bradley would be right is if the Vikings went 5-11, and Favre really was a locker room cancer. But he walks the walk. Bradley should be terminated due to his utopian narcissism, but the AJC would rather stop delivery to Haralson County than make quality money saving decisions.

38YearBravesFan

January 25th, 2010
9:48 pm

Mark – What happened to Sonny Clusters??? We was so used to reading his funny stuff while we was down at the DQ having a Dilly Bar…waiting to get autographs from You Know Who.

We is getting depressed without the pithy wit on the ole blog.

Ivan

January 25th, 2010
11:01 pm

I won’t say he’s the most overrated. There’s too many other QB prospects out there for that title. I will totally agree though, Mark, on ESPN’s constant jabbering about the guy. It’s the media that makes you sick about him, not because of his accomplishments or near accomplishments, but the constant, “And in other news, Favre …….” every 10 minutes.

cherisaintsfan

January 26th, 2010
1:50 am

Despite my love and respect for Brett Favre, I love the article! You sound like you are speaking about someone you loved at one point. Feels like maybe Brett betrayed you somehow. It’s like you are talking about an ex. Hilarious! The only thing I would add is that The New Orleans Saints are quite talented, and they had an amazing season. I mean you could at least mention that we had 19 players score a TD this season. They will win the Superbowl! I believe in destiny, luck and shear odds.. my goodness, a true fan since 1976 and nothing so far! We have to win one before I die. Laissez bon temps roule!

matt

January 26th, 2010
12:41 pm

Considering the Vikings would have done well to be a .500 team had Favre not been on the team I dont think they have any room to complain!

Chris Mack

January 26th, 2010
4:28 pm

I wonder if there was a line in Vegas on a Favre game blowing gaff?

Daleco

January 27th, 2010
10:05 am

You hatred seems to know no bounds. I cannot defend the interception. It would definitely make me look like an idiot. I can only surmize, that this is from the whole will/won’t he retire, which I also admit gets old. But talk about sychphants, Peyton can do no wrong. He in any commercial that will pay him, writers write about him like he is the second coming and all I heard this year was how he does this with no talent around him which is the biggest bunch of bullocks I have ever heard. Let’s trade Peyton to Buffalo and see how good he does. Brett does have a love affiar with the TV media, but the print media love affair with Peyton is no better.

JorgeMeltdown

January 27th, 2010
11:24 am

Brett Farve was so dumb in the closing seconds it was absolutely incredible!. I couldnt believe what I was seeing. When I saw Farve throwing the football, I looked at the tv and I wanted to throw a brick at the tv. Farve had no business throwing the football, when he could have taken a knee, andd watched his field goal kicker make a 56 yarder sending the Vikings into the superbowl.

CoreyWilson

January 27th, 2010
11:34 am

Adrian Peterson is not overrated. Adrian just had a bad day. It happens to everyone, whether they are a football player or not. Adrian put the ball on the carpet three times and it cost his team a chance to play in the superbowl. Its not just Brett Farve’s fault the Vikings lost. There is enough blame to go around. Its mainly Farve and Peterson, though. They are the two main guys who blew it for the Vikings. In spite of it all though Farve could have won it in the closing seconds had he hobbled for 10-15 yards to give his field goal kicker a chance to win the damn football game.

JohnnyLewis

January 27th, 2010
11:38 am

The Saints were careless with the football as well and they were nervous. Their vaunted offense only collected about 70 yards in the second half and they failed on several plays of 3rd down and 1s and 3rd and 2s which is usually a cakewalk for them. They were afraid to lose and it showed. They also were sloppy with the football as well. IN MY MIND BOTH TEAMS DESERVED TO LOSE BUT THE SAINTS WEREN’T AS CARELESS AND THUS WILL BE PLAYING FOR THE BIG PRIZE.

PenelopeJones

January 27th, 2010
11:46 am

Superbowl Prediction: Colts 63 Saints 7

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