Take It From a Green Bay Packers Fan: I’ll Miss You, Brett Favre

December 15, 2010   ·   Joseph Fafinski   ·   Jump to comments

I owned three Green Bay Packers jerseys growing up in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The first one was a white Reggie White jersey, but when he left the Packers in 1998 I decided it was time to move on.
When it was my birthday my grandmother asked what I wanted, and of course I said another Packers jersey. She bought me star safety Darren Sharper's jersey. I was thrilled.
Yet, neither Reggie White nor Darren Sharper were my favorite player.
Not even close.
That honor belonged to Brett Favre.
He was the reason I started watching the Packers around the age of three, which would be his second of his 16 seasons with the team.
Flash ahead a few years to January 26, 1997. I was a preschooler living in Eden Prairie, Minnesota and Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers had just won Super Bowl XXXI over the New England Patriots.
They were the World Champions!
Even at five years old I knew that moment was surreal.
The following year he led them ...

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