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Brett Favre was listed as questionable for the New York Jets today on the injury report in regarding the game against the Arizona Cardinals.  Well Farve only had 6 touchdown passes for the Jets in a 56-35 blowout win over the Cardinals. Yes that is correct 56-35, it looks like a basketball score, but no it was a football game.  Not a high scoring Big 12 college football game, it was an NFL game.   Can you image if Farve would have been 100% for this game?  He might have led the Jets to almost 100 points and Farve could have had close to 10 touchdowns.

Do you think the Green Bay front office and head coach Mike McCarthy monitor the failures and successes of Brett Farve with the Jets?  Sure they do, and when they see this score and read about the game I’m sure a couple of what ifs will be going through their mind.  Especially now that Aaron Rodgers may have a separated shoulder.  Farve was 24-for-34 for 289 yards six touchdowns and one interception. This guy is just sick. Fantasy owners that had Farve as their starting quarterback have to be doing back flips. I’m sure the wild and crazy Jets fans are.

There hasn’t been this much excitement over the Jets since Joe Namath.  Speaking of Joe Namath, all Farve did was tied Namath’s franchise record six touchdown passes.  Even if the Cardinals cornerbacks are bad,  what Farve did was impressive at any level, any age let alone in the NFL and at 38 years young!  Do you think that the Jets front office and head coach Eric Mangini aren’t patting themselves on the back and giving each other a high five?  Farve broke his own personal record for touchdown passes.  Everything was set up for a special day when the Jets came out in their New York Titans throwback uniforms of gold and blue.

No one wanted to see Farve leave the Green Bay Packers except maybe the Minnesota Vikings.  Even now it is hard to see Farve in the Jets uniform.  It might not take too long to get used to seeing Farve in Jet green if he keeps on having games like he had today.  No one wants to see a first time ballot Hall of Famer ruin his legacy. A couple of the NFL greats left the team that they built their legacy up with for a chance to start for another team. It rarely works out, and most of them realize that they should have just retired with their longstanding team. Sometimes egos get in the way.  Some of those players damage their legacy. This is not the case for Farve. He just wanted to play football again, the sport he loves.

Farve thought that he could still play at a high level in the NFL. The Packers didn’t believe that he could anymore. Even though the season is only into it’s fourth game, Farve is proving to himself, the Jets and the Packers, and the rest of the NFL that he was right.