He is the game's most overrated athlete.
He won a Super Bowl because he was surrounded by a top notch team and excellent coaching. It's a miracle he didn't blow that game as well. After a decade of seeing their team dragged down by him, the Packers finally were able to be rid of him and won a Super Bowl the very next year with a real quarterback. Why people were obsessed with a careless, interception prone media favorite, I'll never understand. He was the Obama of NFL quarterbacks.
While not utterly meaningless, the interception had little impact on the ultimate result. They were in field goal range before a twelve men penalty pushed them back. Then Favre extended a play and threw across his body in his usual foolhardy manner. But there was little else he could do, as though there was open ground in front of him he was hobbled from the many hits of the night and couldn’t run for it. So he forced it, but what did it lose? A chance at another play perhaps, where I guess a miracle was supposed to happen.
It’s always possible they could have scored anyway without the turnover, but time was dear and the penalty all but assured they were going into overtime. Then it was a long sludge after the Saints won the toss of booth reviews on seemingly every play until they kicked their way to the Superbowl. If you want to go back and wonder what they could have done differently, look not at the falsely dramatic last minute interception but the myriad fumbles, only one of which Favre might have been responsible for.
“He’s the game’s most overrated athelete”
It’s hard to argue otherwise, since you can be both great and overrated. However, I don’t think you can make the argument for a guy who owns every single record for his position, at least until Peyton takes them away, as well as holding the Iron Man record, which granted only a QB or kicker probably could earn these days. Why would you? Because he also holds the golden raspberry interception record? That lacks perspective.
By the way, the Packers did NOT win the very next year without Favre. There were in fact two seasons inbetween, one of which saw Favre lose the championship game by a hair with a division rival. And I don’t know how Rogers winning a Superbowl somehow gainsays Favre’s status as a “real” QB. Favre won a Superbowl, too, and he never squandered a 15-1 team. Reggie White and Desmond Howard were helpful, too, but it’s not as if Rogers did it alone. I truly can’t understand where you’re coming from with this line of argument.