PK On (And On And On) About Favre » Brats & Beer

August 5, 2008
posted under: Brett Favre, Peter King, unretirement

Coffee or Favre? Doesn’t matter for Peter King

Nice try Peter King.

Your attempt to write a whole column today without mentioning Brett Favre was a brilliant success, except for the part where you mentioned Brett Favre like fifty times. But that was hardly the worst part of your column today, because no one in their right mind took that headline seriously. We all know you eat, breathe, and sleep just to serve your overlord Favre. No, what galled me more — what really gets in my craw — is this image you cultivate of being a humble, down to earth guy, when really, deep down, you’re just an overbearing, self-important and self-centered jerk.

Take for example from today’s column your observations from Packers training camp, specifically the part where you liken the fans watching the team practice to sheep. “And never is heard a discouraging word … What sheep they are.” You’re dead on correct to say that the fans in Green Bay are not like the fans in Philly or Foxboro, but do you have to denigrate the fine people of Wisconsin by calling them “sheep?” There are parts of the country, unlike your native Jersey, where fans know how to show a little class and team spirit.

But the real kicker comes in the oh-so-clever “Things I think I think” section of the column about the Packers decision to let Favre come to camp and compete (maybe, McCarthy canceled his press conference tonight) for the starting job. You state, “it’s smart, coming off a year like he had last year, to give Favre the latitude he wants to decide when he wants to play.” Now we can argue all day about the wisdom of the Packers about face on this, but just one question: When some other player in the league is making demands of his team and trying to get his way and causing a distraction, who’s the first on Monday morning to label that player a troublemaker, a cancer in the locker room?

Would you not agree, sir, that Favre’s actions the past month have been something of a distraction? Put aside your personal feelings for the man and take a good, hard look at what he’s put this franchise, its players, and its fans through. Where is that PK brand of rhetorical justice in this instance? Oh right, you wouldn’t want to fall out of Favre’s Fave Five.

Seriously, if it wasn’t for the coffee nerdness and trite travel anecdotes, I’d never read your column. Keep up the good work.