Brett Favre wonders if he belongs in Hall of Fame

“It was Brett”, Birling said, “that taught me to wear my game face”. When I’d drive home, I would say to myself, ‘This is stealing!’

Ira Miller is an award-winning sportswriter who has covered the National Football League for more than four decades and is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Selection Committee. “We didn’t throw the ball and I knew he was good, but you still don’t fathom on what’s going to happen”.

The best punter ever Ray Guy was born in Georgia but went to Southern Miss and as another Golden Eagle, it means as much to Favre to be in the same hall as Guy as it does all of his old Packer buddies.

Obviously, he’s going to be identified as a Green Bay Packer, and he should, all the kidding aside I give to my Packers friends about “all time Vikings great Brett Favre”.

Asked if he ever imagined himself wearing a gold jacket in Canton, Favre quickly responded: “Absolutely not”.

Wolf scouted Favre at a college all-star game and remembered telling the late Dick Steinberg, the Jets’ GM and his boss, “This is the best player in the draft”. How is it possible that he’s now a part of this exclusive club?

So too will Pace, and while statistics can’t quantify as well how valuable the seven-time Pro Bowler and three-time First Team All-Pro was to the Rams over the years, his teammates can. Laughs… I knew Green was up north, and way up north, and I was extremely excited. We think we got it all figured out. “When I came out as an opponent, I realized, this place is pretty special”. The Cowboys were my team.

I had been a New York Yankees fan as a kid, but switched to the Philadelphia Phillies after they won the World Series in 1980 because I became a Schmidt fan. I was a die-hard Archie Manning fan.

He did that twice in his first season with the Vikings, thus satisfying the competitive fire that burned in him throughout his career. It’s a little bit more exciting than being in a stadium at a game where you’re super far away. There were guys that came in and seemed so miserable, and I just could not figure it out. “I’ll be having my pompoms out for all three of those guys to get in next”.

What people are aware of, however, is the current crop of quarterbacks, just a few years after the outcry from fans and so-called experts centered on a supposed lack of great quarterbacking.

When he began getting text messages from his heroes, particularly Roger Staubach, Favre said he had to “pick his jaw off the floor”.

Well Favre does belong. And it turned out that was the year Brett Favre had a season for the ages.

“He really is very selective, ” said agent Bus Cook, who has represented Favre since the quarterback’s first National Football League contract with the Atlanta Falcons.

Peterson will be attending the Vikings night practice at Minnesota State University, Mankato when Favre is presented for enshrinement into “football heaven”. They weren’t even sure how to say his name.

“It was a lot of fun”, Brett Rybarczyk said.

Randle, who finished his 14-year career with 137 1/2 sacks, quipped that sometimes he just wanted to touch Favre to see what it was like to actually feel his jersey.