First off, the fact that he randomly changes around the the letters in his name, really, really pisses me off. His name is spelled F-a-v-r-e. How the fuck do you Far-ve out of that? Now my son the theoretical linguist tells me that there are examples in some early languages in the Middle East, that do change the last consonant around. Fucking Fav-er comes from Mississippi, not the Middle East. The French don't; the Cajuns don't. So how come 'M. R.' just arbitrarily decides to change his name? That's easy: HE DOES WHATEVER HE WANTS. That's why. Always has, always will.
I listen to a lot of sports talk on satellite radio and they often amuse themselves by ranking the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history. M. R. is always ranked in the top ten. I have been watching NFL football for over 40 years, going back to the dominant Packer days of the mid-sixties. I am pretty sure I could name 10-15 quarterbacks better than M. R. I am not saying that he wasn't a great players in his day, but he soon became a player of diminishing results. For every great play he would fuck two up. As the years have gone by he has become much more of a liability to his team.
His last years with the Packers were not good (How wonderful must the Packers feel to have gotten rid of that albatross from around their necks? And they even have a great QB now to replace M.R.). His time with the Jets was a disaster and even though he had a fantastic year last year, he eventually fucked it up. This year has proven that he is done. He has been horrible. He has had 17 INTs, as well as his usual bad decision after bad decision. His off the field problems have proven to be a tremendous distraction, be it the sitch-ee-ay-shun of the cell phone and the scrumpet, not coming to camp in the summer, or not liking the coach and finally being a very big reason that Chilly was fired.
I love to see M.R. throw INTs when he tries to 'thread the needle' through 4-5 defenders. He just can't help himself. He has to be the hero. Winning isn't enough. He has to be the reason they win the game. The V's have the best running back in the league. Adrian Peterson is the best; sorry Chris Johnson. He led the league in rushing before M.R. came to town, but now Fav-er needs to be the show, so AP doesn't get the ball enough. First down gets 2 yards which suite M.R. fine because now he gets to throw the fucking ball around and be the star. Even the lousy QBs in the league come to the line and try to read what the defense is doing, but not M.R. He comes up and barely looks at the defense. All the better for ad-libbing. That way he can be the hero. As I have already said in another blog; you throw enough shit against the wall and some of it will stick. He wins some games with his bullshit but...
How he loves to be the center of attention. "Ohhh, I think I will retire." "Ohhhh, maybe I'll play." "Ohhhhh I don't know what I'll do." "Won't someone please come and beg me to play?" What a fucking joke. And the teams just come a runnin, waving millions of dollars at him. And he knows that he is the one in control. He is always bigger than the team. He knows it, the coach knows it and his teammates know it. He gets the team to bring in players he wants (Randy Moss!), and he gets coaches fired. What a power trip he is on.
He should have quit after the debacle of the NFC championship game last year. True to his selfish personality, Fav-er had to do something to screw his team. They had the game won. They were within field goal range and a victory. But of coarse this wasn't good enough for M.R. Oh no, he had to get his fingerprints on the victory. Can't let the kicker get the glory, right Brett? No he had to be the hero and throw a horrible pass that did not have a chance of being completed. Had to. Another INT and the Saints went marching on!
His selfishness knows no boundaries. He keeps playing to keep his consecutive game streak alive. This has been a complete detriment to his team's success. Several time in the past five years he has played despite not being physically able. This year alone he should have missed at least two or three games. He loves that everyone rants and raves about his toughness and dedication to the game. Bullshit. It is just another way that he gets everyone to look at him and tell him how great he is. Selfish, selfish selfish.
I once heard a quote from the drummer of the some band that I don't remember. He was asked what he was thinking about while drumming during a song. He said 'That's easy. LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME." That is Brett Fav er to a tee. He is nothing but a raging egomaniac.
Aforementioned theoretical linguist here with a few more thoughts on “Farv”.
ReplyDeleteIn Favre’s defense, phonological markedness theory provides us some good reasons why “Favre” might turn into [faɹv], particularly when inter-language transmission gets involved, which is what I assume is going on here. It’s my understanding that French has the unusual property of tolerating rising-sonority consonant clusters in syllable codas, which is what [favʁ] would have—cf. livre, which is a monosyllable [livʁ]—whereas English enforces a ban on those. If “Favre” were to be imported into English, English phonology would force one of two outcomes: either the French monosyllable would be resyllabified as a disyllabic sequence with /ɹ/ (English’s equivalent of /ʁ/) becoming a syllable nucleus, like [fa.vɹ̩], or the monosyllabicity would be preserved by means of metathesis, giving us the well-formed English syllable [faɹv]. It seems the latter is what happened.
To put that less cryptically: my guess is that it’s pronounced “Farv” because the original French pronunciation has it as a single syllable, and the only way to pronounce it as a single syllable in English is to flip the final two sounds (“metathesis” = flipping).