The I-Form

Somewhere, in the Deep South, a 38-year old legend with a five ‘o clock shadow is wearing faded Wrangler jeans, and a plain white T-Shirt with the little pen pocket on the left. His Wrangler boots are caked with dry mud, and his adjustable John Deere Tractor hat shields his eyes from the eight A.M early morning sun. As he rides his John Deere tractor for no particular reason, the last thing he is thinking about is football. He traded this farm-boy outfit for his green #4 Packers jersey. This legend is Brett Favre.

He, quote “Knows he can still play” but he doesn’t want to. In 1991, the Atlanta Falcons took him with the first pick of the second round. “Favor” is the way his name was pronounced, nobody knew it back then. Everyone knows it now. Alan Glanville, then the coach of the Falcons said it would “take a plane crash” for him to play Favre.

The Packers traded for Favre and then Brett proceeded to break just about every single record an NFL QB could ever hold. Brett went out on top while he still could. Just about everyone that played with, against, or watched him play will tell you that he is the best to ever play the game.

Favre was a little kid out there, always having fun, pelting teammates with snowballs up in the icy tundra of Lambeau Field in the winter. He was always smiling like the simple country boy he was. The Packers plan to retire his jersey the first week of the 2008 NFL season, and are keeping his locker as a shrine.

Peyton Manning, who is arguably one of the Top 5 QBs to ever play the game, writes a letter to every player he respected when they retire. “I haven’t wrote one to Brett yet,” he said in a press conference days after Brett’s teary-eyed press conference. That’s saying something.