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Brett Favre was one of the greatest football players of all time, frequently singlehandedly carrying the Green Bay Packers on his back with miraculous throws only he could make.
However, his legacy has been altered by some questionable decisions, on and off the field, but it looks like Favre is finally ready to step up and apologize for the biggest controversy of his career.
In a new ESPN documentary about the 1980 historic Jets pass rush, The New York Sack Exchange, former single-season sack leader, Mark Gastineau, confronted Brett Favre about taking a dive and allowing Michael Strahan to break the sack record on him.
Mark Gastineau presses Favre at a Chicago sports memorabilia show about allowing Strahan to steal his sack record back in 2002.
Gastineau: Yeah, right — when you fell down for [Strahan]. I’m going to get my sack back. I’m going to get my sack back, dude.
Favre: You probably would hurt me.
Gastineau: Well, I don’t care. You hurt me. You hurt me! You hear me?
Favre: Yeah, I hear you
Gastineau: You really hurt me. You really hurt me, Brett.
FINALLY, Brett Favre has to directly face the singular person he has hurt most: A defensive lineman from the 80s.
Letting Michael Strahan sack him is the biggest blemish on Favre’s entire legacy.
Not Jenn Sterger, who he had sent weirdo ass voicemails and a dick pic when she was a host for the Jets pregame show. The two, til this day, have never met.
Not making Aaron Rodgers’s life hell when Rodgers was drafted to Green Bay for literally no reason other than being an old, jealous man addicted to PKs.
Not stealing Mississippi welfare funds he was sneakily given for fake speaking engagements he never attended, stealing money from the poorest people in the country to help pay for his daughter’s college volleyball facility despite already being a multi-millionaire capable of cutting a check for whatever he wants, whenever he wants it.
Nope.
It’s the sack thing.
Brett Favre went to Twitter to explain what happened the day he let Strahan get that sack record, setting the record straight on the Mark Gastineau controversy while noticeably never saying shit about the dick pick scandal or stealing from poor people.
Back in 2002, when Michael Strahan sacked me at the end of a game that we had wrapped up, I was in no way trying to hurt Mark Gastineau.
I was trying to close out a game and squeeze the last bit of fun out of a hard-fought game.
(2)— Brett Favre (@BrettFavre) December 11, 2024
I’m glad Favre has cleared his conscience, finally opening up about the Michael Strahan thing that everyone is constantly talking about, ever present in our daily zeitgeist.
This needed to be addressed ASAP and I’m proud of Favre having the courage to face his demons.
Also, don’t get too mad at him or else he will remind you he has Parkinson’s. You can’t be mad at him while he’s sick.
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