GoldenTriangleFan - Thanks for the post. I agree 100% with you. Take a look at Bart Starr. There are some people that claim he is the better QB. But how do you compare those stats.

From 1960 to 1967 the most touchdown passes Starr threw in a season was 16. The fewest Favre ever through in single Packer season was 18. Star posted ratings of 80.3, 90.7, 82.3, 97.1, 89.0, 105.0, and 64.4. With the exception of that 97.1 and 105.0 Favre was consistently higher throughout his career.

The rules were different back then. Pass interference wasn't called. Teams didn't throw short passes, they ran the ball.

Favre to me is a guy to me that will improve in how he is viewed by history, when the tabloid will he or won't he play element is gone. As we don't see him play and don't see other players make the plays he makes, people are going to understand just how special it was to watch him play quarterback at that level for that long.

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Interesting question. As you pointed out, Favre seemed to do more with less around him than most other QBs. However he has thrown the most INTs of anyone. Is he in the discussion of greatest ever? Probably, but how does one quantify the greatest? I've heard Sammy Baugh was arguably the greatest, but I never saw him play, so how can one say Baugh wasn't the greatest? Its an interesting discussion. I think Favre's legacy will only grow the longer he's out of the game. As for the whole retired versus coming back, blame the media for that. Sports reporting has become a tabloid industry. Rather than give us the scores and analysis of the games, we get the "dirt" on players. Isn't that what the National Enquirer is for?

UltTroyDos - Thanks for the post. I always thought that too. Everyone said that he was media hungry, but why would he want to live in small town Mississippi. TO is a guy I think of that loves the spotlight. He films reality TV shows, writes childrens books, cries about people picking on Tony Romo in a press conference and throws him under the bus in the next.

I think everyone agrees that the media coverage with him was over the top. Did Favre take advantage of that for his own benefit, sure. But at the end of the day I put a lot of the blame on two parties. 1) The media for talking about it non-stop, 2) The anti Favre people that called every radio show and posted every blog that helped fuel the coverage.

The media will stop reporting things that people have no interest in. They don't stop reporting things people don't like and continue to watch. It is my opinion that the anti-Favre crowd that hated his every move contributed the most to the problem, because they wouldn't stop talking about how much they hated the coverage.

StevoinHTown - Thanks for the post. We've had this conversation before in that I view the Greatest Ever as a Combination of Regular Season Victories, Postseason Victories, and Natural Abilities; where the most important factor to you is the rings. Considering he played with No Hall of Fame players on offense in Green Bay and one on Defense for only six of his 16 seasons I would argue that no quarterback did more with less in the history of the NFL.

To some people his legacy is going to be the diva that people saw the last three to four seasons of his career, but I think when the history of #4 is written, most people will remember him as an All-Time Great Player who played the game the right way.

aero13 - Thanks for the post. I'm done predicting what he is going to do, because I seem to get it wrong every time. I would be pretty disappointed if on August 20th he calls the Vikings and says he wants to play. It would be hard to respect that, because he says he doesn't think he can play a full season. I do like him and it would be hard for me to defend that.

What is going to be interesting is if a contending team has a starter go down and he thinks he can put it together for 5-8 games. Time will tell what he decides.