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Originally Posted by transplant99
I still do not understand how making the NFC championship game can ever be considered "failing spectacularly"...win or lose when there were 14 other QB's sitting at home watching that game on TV, all who would of given up a testicle to be there playing.
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I assume you have heard the local Minnesota radio broadcast clip of the NFC championship that Jim Rome plays over and over on his show. It's spectacular in how everything is pointing to a Vikings victory and trip to the Superbowl. You can hear the excitement in voices of the pbp and color man, then bang, it's over and you hear the anger and dispare in the voices of the color man. It's epic and a classic sports moment.
It's classic Brett 'Gunslinger' Favre the way it ended with him throwing the ill-advised pass across his body for an int when he could have thrown the ball away with the Vikings in field goal position. Despite all the fumbles the Vikings were still in position to win the game and go to the Superbowl but the old gunslinger wanted the glory of winning the game in his hands and not a kicker.
Go back to the 2008 NFC championship and it's the same type of ending. Favre in OT throws a terrible high risk pass which is picked off by the Giants which turned into the game winning field goal. Again another playoff season that ended off his arm.
His 9 interceptions in the last five games of the 2008 regular season turned an 8-3 Jets team into playoff spectators.
That's the thing about the old gunslinger. It's
live by the sword &
die by the sword and nothing in between. Nobody is disputing that he can take a good team into the playoffs because that's what he's done most of his career it's that in tight playoff games agains the best opposition in the league his loose cannon approach usually ends up in his team on the losing side of the big games.