Hamartia or the Tragic Flaw: Brett's NFC Championship

Brett Throws Another INT

Dorkwad ESPN Favre-hater Gregg Easterbrook doesn't mention that Brett had just had a coaching error move his team out of FG range with 12 men in a huddle---that would be honorable and as I mention Easterbrook, Fleming, and a few other phlegm-hawkers at ESPN are simply victims of a borderline personality disorder---obsessive-compulsive nattering.

When Easterbrook suggests Favre WANTS to be center of attention rather than win another Super Bowl, he is projecting his own lack of any productive skills onto a great Hall of Famer. I'm from Wisconsin and a lifelong Packer fan until Dickhead Ted Thompson and his tea-boy of a coach ditched Brett and then accused the Vikings of "tampering."

Interesting that both Brett & Peyton grew up as Saints fans and would have been playing against each other while NO sat out another Super Bowl. Yeah, Brett should have run a half-dozen yards and then hook-slid to make up for the dumb penalty his coaches inflicted on the team, but he was running on fumes by then and probably knew that another tough hit would ensue. The pass was a laser, but across the field is still a no-no. Like a one-iron in your golf bag, not even God can complete a cross-field pass from a roll-out right.

Bill Simmons has a great piece on the top 15 officially tortured franchises, with Cleveland achieving a trifecta of pain with the Cavs, Browns, and Indians. Buffalo with the Bills and Sabres makes Lake Erie a terrible vortex of tortured franchises.