NFL Betting Analysis – Why Is Green Bay So Angry At Brett Favre?

There’s no bigger story in NFL betting analysis this weekend than Brett Favre returning to the place where it all began when he challenges the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field.

The all-time leader in passing yards and touchdowns has made the rounds for all the wrong reasons in the media lately, and ask the majority of people in Green Bay and they’ll tell you they hate him.

My question is simply “why?”

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Favre gave Green Bay 2 NFC Championships and a Super Bowl XXXI victory over the course of 16 seasons. He also averaged 62 percent completions, 3,853 yards and 27.6 touchdowns per season while at the helm for the Packers.

Of course, many will point to the fact that he also averaged 17.9 interceptions per season during that stretch, but he’s a gunslinger. If you live by the sword, sometimes you die by it as well.

When Favre retired from his time in Green Bay, he was 38-years old with plenty of wear and tear on his body. Isn’t a guy allowed to question his personal future after committing so many years of his life to playing football (or anything for that matter)?

I know a lot of people started spewing rage about Favre retiring and un-retiring, but he’s not the only superstar to do the same.

Michael Jordan and Mats Sundin are two sports uberstars who unretired as well, and neither were as old are as bruised as Favre was when he flip-flopped. There are plenty of guys that play past their prime and we don’t hate on them as much.

Why does Favre deserve to be vilified so much?

Part of why Green Bay hates him so damn much is because of what he supposedly did to Aaron Rodgers. Tell me again what Rodgers has done in the NFL betting scene that is so damn impressive?

I’m not saying that Rodgers isn’t an unreal talent in the NFL, but  until the 26-year old shows some resilience in the playoffs, he’s no better than Philip Rivers or Tony Romo.

And if you think Favre mulling about leaving the game is so evil, then just talk to any Arizona Cardinals fan. At this point I’m surprised someone hasn’t scarified their first born to inspire Kurt Warner to back to the NFL betting picture.

Green Bay was hard pressed to make a decision between Favre and Rodgers because they couldn’t waste Rodgers developmental years. But people forget that Rodgers fell to them as the 24th pick in the 2005 NFL Draft.

They didn’t want to take him – they had to. He was forced on them and was simply too good to pass up at that point.

So why is it Favre’s fault that the Packers were thrust in to a decision between him and Rodgers? That’s not fair.

If anything, both parties won. The Green Bay Packers got a young quarterback to carry the franchise in NFL betting for the next decade, and Favre got to collect around $20 million a season with the Jets and Vikings respectively.

And both are playoff contenders. Why can’t this just be a bygones-be-bygones type situation? Why can’t both sides be happy? Favre wanted to keep playing, although he wasn’t sure.

Would you be 100-percent positive of what you wanted to do with your life with your health at risk after twenty years of playing professional football? Nobody else has – don’t pretend like you’d be so different just because a crap load of money was on the table.

Hating on Brett Favre has become the trendy thing to do. Why is it so hard for us to appreciate a guy who became the first quarterback to throw for 70,000 yards and 500 touchdowns?

Crucifying Favre for his fumbles and interceptions is like nailing Barry Sanders to the cross for compiling the most negative rushing yards in an NFL career. Again – you live by the sword and die by it as well. It comes with the territory.

I can’t reiterate enough that the Green Bay Packers and Brett Favre should be happy with their lots in life. Maybe the Packers are just miffed because they’re 2-0 SU and ATS when playing their former franchise quarterback in NFL betting.

Maybe we just need people to hate in life, but I can think of about 25 people I’d rather detest than a guy like Favre (and I’m willing to dance around his sex text scandal until all evidence proves him officially guilty).

Green Bay has been sacked by injuries, which is jeopardizing their NFL betting action this weekend as they host the Minnesota Vikings. But if they think that hating on Brett Favre as he returns to Lambeau is going to help, then they’re a town full of idiot. He’s not the reason you guys are in the toilet in 2010 – bad luck is.

I think it’s a grace and a privilege to watch legendary sports figures in your lifetime. I’ll be the first to admit that Michael Jordan is my all-time favorite NBA player, and I still resent my dad for taking my older brother to see him play (twice!) while leaving me at home to have a dinner date with my mom.

I’m lucky to have seen Martin Brodeur play goalie for Team Canada and the New Jersey Devils, and to witness talents like Kevin Garnett and Randy Johnson play professional sports.

It’s impossible for me as a sports fan to feel any animosity towards Favre. I’m done with killing sports stars for having messy personal lives because I’m convinced that guys like Barkley and MJ would have had just as difficult a time in the Twitter/Facebook/Internet age.

Count your lucky stars you get to watch Brett Favre play at such a high level when he’s 41-years old. Call him overrated, arrogant and self righteous. I don’t care. I just want to watch football, and when Favre plays the Green Bay Packers this weekend I’ll be cheering him all the way as my NFL betting pick.

Bet on the Week 7 lines where Favre and the Vikings are +2.5 underdogs in Green Bay this weekend!