Resentful? Far from it. I think the Packers made a great decision to trade Favre and get a draft pick that turned into Clay Mathews. I am a Packer fan who has moved on to support our new young talented team. Favre was a significant figure in the Packer's storied history along with many other fantastic players. Now that he is no longer a part of the organization and has decided to play for a division rival. I could care less about him. It's just that so many people think that the Packer's history begins and ends with the Diva. Not true. How can rooting for your team against a rival quarterback be deemed resentful. In my opinion, people rooting for Favre are either Vikings fans or resentful Packer fans.

Don't forget about ex WI Badger; Arnie Herber..Granted he had Don Hudson (the greatest receiver of all time, IMO) but he still won 4 titles for the Packers. The game was a lot different back then, but these guys are true pioneers, and legends, that made pro football the mega sport that it is today!

You are so right. Starr is the greatest QB in Packer history...all the championships, never losing a home playoff game, tremendous leader, etc. Yes Favre is/was a great quarterback who compiled tremendous stats due to longevity. He deserves our appreciation and respect for all he did accomplish in his many years with the team. He did give us many thrills but when I evaluate great quarterbacks I will take championships over stats any day. And now Favre plays for a bitter division rival so I do not wish him further success.

cardtrader, as others have said, Brett is not bigger than the Green Bay Packers in football lore and legend. Even as far as quarterbacks are concerned, there are others who deserve recognition. Bart Starr was not only the MVP of the first two Superbowls, but is regarded by everyone who knows him as a supremely nice guy. Only a Vikings fan would elevate Brett-come-and-gone-lately over the Ice Bowl.

Yeah, some might want to read a tad bit of history...Curly Lambeau, Don Hudson, Herb Adderly...Gee, they didn't have anything to do with "putting the team on the map".
.
Favre was a great legend to the LONG history of the Packer legacy. I don't see how any packer fan could not like, and respect the guy. He was a truly prodigious player who gave the team unprecedented memories, and also did a lot for the community both him and his wife. The "break up" was simply a business decision. Both Favre and management played some aspects of it wrong. I still love to watch the guy compete, and find it amazing the level he can still play at some 18+ years in the league later! I really hope Green bay will play the Vikings again. The 1st two games were great games, both of which the Packers really fought back in, when it looked like it would be a total blowout. I think a 3rd game in the playoffs would really be one for NFL films to put in the archives!

Favre put Green Bay on the map?
The team has won 12 championships, but only one with the Drama Diva at QB. I believe Green Bay was on the map long before the Diva was even born.
Now, if he is able to do something no other player has done by winning a championship with the Vikings, then maybe we will be able to find Minnesota on the map. For your sake, Favre needs to avoid the playoff meltdowns he has had for the past 12 years.
If Favre is able to take the Vikings deep into the playoffs or even win a Superbowl, have fun all summer as he leaves you twisting in the wind as to what he is going to do next season.

Cardtrader, it was the Packers that made Brett Favre, not the other way around.

(banging my head on my desk)
Thanks for that post Ty! Next thing you know, I'll have a fleet of black suited men circling at my "undisclosed location" haha. No one really reads these blogs, I'm sure.....Hopefully! Those days were quite the life experience. Now I feel like a modern day Henry Hill
Enjoy the game Sunday, my friend...
GO PACK GO!

If my man Kiowa is "locked and loaded" I'm following! This dude is like a freaking machine.
The only person I know who actually called, boasted, and unloaded on Detroit saying they would beat Kobe and Shaq in the 2004 nba championship 'easily'.
Even a die hard piston fan like myself thought he was nuts.
The only man to have busted up the Chicgo mafia.
The true legend himself, and now exiled back to Janesville, in some undisclosed location, hehe.
What some don't know! OK, sorry bro.
Love to hear your sports handicapping posts when you decide to emerge from exile.
I'll ride you with the Pack Sunday. Just like I rode you with the 'Christmas gift' you gave out on SMU over Nevada.
Long live Kiowa!

Millions are bet legally in Vegas each and every week of the NFL season. However; of the BILLIONS bet each week, most all studies have shown only about 2-5% is bet legally in Vegas. The other 95-98% is bet either off shore, via the internet, or through street books. Most of your high end street books have ties to large organized crime rings. When organized crime gets involved, out comes of games can become tainted. The most recent case was in the NBA with Tim Denahey. Many games in college football have been tainted by organized crime buying off a player, and or official. Which is why gambling on sports should be made completely legal, like it is in most all other countries. When you legalize it, you rid organized crime from it, and and it polices itself. Point shaving scandals have been blown up because it is the LEGAL books in Vegas who report the strange action on an obscure game....All a topic for a different discussion.
.
In any event, I am calling the Packers to beat the Cardinals, and I will call the NFC championship game be a re-match between the Vikings and Packers (That match up COULD happen in the 2nd round if the Pack wins,and Philly were to beat Dallas). I bet the Vikings to win the NFC at seasons beginning at 8/1 odds. I think they are still the team to beat in the NFC, but I think the Pack can really give them a run for it. They have really improved during the season, and have really surprised me, and the skeptics. I was a huge skeptic at the beginning of the season..I called them to be 8-8, and miss the playoffs. I must say they have really been a pleasant surprise. The Pittsburgh game was the game that really made me a believer in them, even though they lost that game!

Somedays I think Vegas "controls" pro sports...

I just want to say I am a Vikings fan and have been for many years, the fact that we now are led into the playoffs by Brett Favre doesn't change my thoughts on the outcome of the season 12-4 is good by any measure and I will just keep my fingers crossed like I have for years past and hope they can make it to another Super Bowl, I have heard all the jokes reguarding the Vikings, or like you Packers fans like to call them Vikequeens but that doesn't change how I feel in any way shape or form, I feel as though we have as good a chance at winning it all as any other team that made the playoffs and wish no ill will towards any of your players. All I hope for is a good game and may the best team win. But for the life of me I dont understand why it is so many packers fans have turned so cold towards a man who put Green Bay on the map, how can so many people be so upset for something as little as his inability to decide weather he is going to play or retire. Is it really that big a deal? I guess I will find out this year I will just have to wait and see until next year at this time Good Luck and are you ready for some Football!!!!

mind got ahead of me again, should be "millions" not "billions". Worldwide, (especially in the Caribbean) it's a billion dollar industry.

Vegas knows enough to make billions of dollars each year on sports betting.

Vegas does not "know" anything. The line is simply put out in an effort to obtain equal action on both sides of the game, so the book maker can make their 10% "juice" on the loosing side. In sound bookmaking you will have say $10,000 bet on Green Bay, and $10,000 bet on Arizona. That way you make a modest profit, REGARDLESS of the games out come. Balance like that rarely ever happens (trust me on that) but over time it equalizes out (The basic theory of "regression to means"), and sports booking is a very stable, and profitable business, if managed properly. The big thing is not being caught, if you are doing it outside of Nevada.

In case one is curious; the Packers have opened as 2.5 point under dogs in most Vegas sports books, and major off shore outlets.
Lock and Load!

Even if you are technically playing for "nothing". You still have pride on the line, and confidence for going into the playoffs, in which you will face the same team over again. Arizona has shown NOTHING even when the starters have played. Both in that 1st quarter of yesterday's game, and don't forget about the preseaon game, when the starters played the whole 1st half, and the defense gave up about 400 yards, and 35 points.
.
I will personally hammer Green Bay vs Arizona in the playoffs. Arizona is the weekest team in it. The NFC west was a complete joke, and the run they made last year was one of the bigger flukes of all time. Top that off in that their #2 threat; Boldin, is banged up, so Woodson will be able to neutralize the one big threat in Fitzgerald. The Cardinal run game is non-existent. The defense is average at best. Home field will mean nothing (there may be more Packer fans their then Cardinal fans (look at yesterday)...Their record at home this year is nothing special at all).
I'll gladly put $$$ on the Packers in this one!

I like the fact that the jets are in the playoffs with a rookie quarterback...the same Jets who could not make the playoffs last season with drama Diva at the helm. Go Packers!

And if the pack falls out GO Brett and the Vikings

The pack is looking fair and Brett favre is on his game so beware.....The playing field changes week to week and we never know who is going to be on their game So lets watch and see GO PACKERS.

IamqueenB-there needs to be a team from the NFC and another from the AFC. The first four you "eliminated" were from the NFC leaving New Orleans and Philly. Philly could have earned the bye and played their starters into the fourth quarter. Unless you changed the rules and are putting two AFC teams in the Superbowl?

I think Arizona began pulling starters BECAUSE Green Bay jumped to a 16-0 lead. However, it's a whole new game Sunday. I'm glad the Packers fans don't play the game, because complacency has already sent in for them.

IamqueenB- The only two teams remaining in your expert opinion are New Orleans who has lost their last 3 games and Philadelphia who got skunked 24-0 yesterday in a game that mattered. Who is your pick?

iamqueenb, you're probably right, but we'll see!

btw Curtain, don't sounds so angry, lol!

curtaincall - I was countering the point of timewas who said all the analysts were saying Green Bay was the hottest team...read below.

dwight, last month the Packers were on there. So?

Dallas has made an interesting turn-around from the way their season started out. They are stronger than I would have guessed them to be at this point from the way they looked in the first half of the season. The whole playoff tree is going to be very exciting. The Vikings are up and down and the Saints are showing they have chinks in the armor. The Ravens and the Bengals will be going home right away and I can't wait to see the Eagles and the Cowboys duke it out--that is going to be a great game then the Packers will shut down the Cardinals.

Those are my predictions!

http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5...

timewas - just took a look at ESPN's front page, it reads; "Dallas' December swoon is so last decade. In 2010, they're the NFC's hottest team."

Some of use have, not "some of us has"

Not a Bears fan, just enjoy getting a rise out of Packers fans. They have on such thick green and gold colored glasses that most can't see that the NFL exists beyond Green Bay. I stand by Dallas being the hottest team going into the NFC playoffs, they dismantled the team that many thought was going to the Super Bowl from the NFC. The Packers are playing well and are, in my opinion, a close second to Dallas as far as teams playing well going into the playoffs. No anger here, just laughter as Packers fans get so defensive over one person that disagrees with them! Hahahahaha! Some of us has great sports knowledge, but most come on here just because they believe that liking a sports team makes them a sports expert! LOL!

By the end of the 1st quarter the Packer's were up 16-0, all of their players were still playing at that point. No one likes being made a fool out of. The cardinals may have had the same record as the Packers but by their own admission have been very inconsistent at times. Kurt Warner played the entire first quarter, and that is when the Packer's got the jump on them. Dwight always sounds angry, which makes me think he is a Bears fan.

It's a game folks.

Two months ago I cringed at the thought of maybe meeting the vikings in the playoffs. Now I say bring them on. We would love to send them home. They are weak in several areas, they tend to have big ego's and choke in the end of the season. Which we have watched the last few weeks.

And I also disagree with Green Bay being the most dangerous team going into the NFC playoffs. No team in the NFC is head-and-shoulders above any other right now. If anything, Dallas is the hottest team right now after pitching back-to-back shutouts and beating a SOLID Eagles team 24-0. That is MUCH more impressive than Green Bay beating an Arizona team that began resting starters after a few series.

The Cardinals were NOT playing for a 3 seed. Because the Vikings had already won, the Cardinals seed was already locked in. Regardless of who won the Philly/Dallas game, the Cardinals would have been the 4 seed. If Philly would have won, they would have been the 2 seed and Minnesota the 3 seed. Arizona had NOTHING to play for in the game.

I totally disagree. The starters played most of the 1st half for Arizona, and the Cardinals were playing for a 3 seed in the playoffs (was not a "meaninless game")...Green Bay DOMINATED the starters, just like they DOMINATED them in the pre-seaon when both teams starting units played the entire 1st half (was something like 35-0 Pack at half). Green bay has this teams number. The teams are going in the opposite directions as the season has progressed. The packers are THEE most dangerous team going into the NFC playoff race.
I think we will eventually see a re-match with Favre, and company, in the playoffs. And it will be a true game for the ages!

Wow they played the back ups....... Wait till next week and the outcome will be the other way around! GO VIKINGS!!