Favre Fans in Milwaukee

Milwaukee like Green Bay has an overload of Packers fans that sport the green and gold jerseys, hats, face paints and cheeseheads. It's likely that many fans in both the Milwaukee and Green Bay areas go to their TV sets on Sunday afternoon or evening to watch “the game” and have probably lost sleep over a past “big game.”

Milwaukee is part of the Green Bay Packers’ history. Just because the team’s hometown is Green Bay, it doesn’t mean the cheeseheads in southeastern Wisconsin shouldn’t get any credit.

Fans know that the Pack began playing home games at County Stadium and had their first home game in Milwaukee in the early 50s against the Cleveland Browns. For four seasons, 1966 through 1969, the Packers were the only tenant at County Stadium as the Braves moved to Atlanta. (Baseball finally returned to Milwaukee in 1970 when the Seattle Pilots moved to Brew City and became the Brewers)

In the early 90s, after Lambeau Field’s upgrade the team decided to move all of the home games there. The Packers played their last game at County Stadium in December 1994.

Seeing as the Pack played nearly half of their home games at County Stadium, Lambeau honors fans in Brew City with Milwaukee season ticket holder games. For 41 years, Milwaukeeans rooted for the Packers at County Stadium; therefore, it’s no surprise that Milwaukee supports the green and gold.

Sure football season’s official start is a couple weeks away, but that doesn’t keep Brett  Favre out of the limelight. In sports news a few months ago, Favre gained much attention for missing off-season practices due to a sore right shoulder.

Brett explained to the media that he didn’t want to worsen his injury and would take recovery in strides. According to the medical staff, his shoulder wasn’t serious yet. As a result, Favre remained off the field until the Pack concluded their workouts so not to cause any additional harm to his shoulder, said FOX 6 News.

Since then, Favre continues to work with his personal trainer on weekly cardio based workouts. This will supposedly keep him agile and full of endurance during games throughout his 17th NFL season.

Still, it seems that seasoned Favre isn’t quite ready or willing to be the Packers’ starting QB. “I don’t have the self-motivation I once had. It’s frustrating to me; it’s disappointing at times that I just can’t make myself get up and go do it. It’s much easier to say, ah, I’ll do it tomorrow,” Favre expressed in an article by the Associated Press.

Is Favre getting too old to play football? Should he have retired to Mississippi to practice being a husband and father instead of returning this season?

I’m in the majority (or is it the minority now?) who is glad Favre is back for another NFL season with the Packers. But a sore shoulder already after just recovering from arthroscopic surgery on his left ankle in February? Come on.

On top of that Favre admits that he lacks the motivation to train. At the age of 37, it’s imperative for an athlete to remain in good condition by training regularly and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Favre better find some motivation, especially since there will be young athletes chasing him on the field in about a month.

Is this foreshadowing the Packer’s season or do you think Favre’s comeback will lead the Pack to victory?

Or do you just not care?

Photographs are from MSNBC

Comments

[Eric]

I'm not sure how important one player is, I don't know if him being back will lead them to victory but it'll sure make the games more interesting to watch.
I thought he was playing baseball for the brewers now though ;)

[Dave]

Go Brewers!

[Don Quixote]

Eric was that a reference to Michael Jordan retiring from basketball and coming back as a baseball player? I wonder if MJ hold the record for worst mistake EVER?

[TommyBoy]

Brett Favre IS the Green Bay Packers. His best years are behind him but I wouldn't want anyone else leading the Packers. Their best opportunity to win and beat those #%&@ Bears is with Favre at the helm. I'm not looking forward to the day that Brett hangs it up. GO PACK!

[Eric]

Ha ha ha no...I wasn't... I was making a badjoke...there is a brewers player (jeff jenkins) who looks a bit like bret farve
I forgot about jordan's brief attempt at baseball, Ha makes me think of the movie Space Jam

[Justin]

favre is the green bay packers. without him that team is nothing. he makes his teammates better than they really are. for example donald driver, without favre does anyone know he exsists. dont get me wrong i like double d, favre made him into what he is now.

[Lisa]

I think I'm one of the few people in Wisconsin -- nay, the country -- who does not worship the ground Favre walks on. I really wish he would retire and give Aaron Rodgers a chance to become the starting quarterback the Packers are supposedly grooming him to be.

[Kristin]

I'm on the fence on this one. I have always adored Brett Favre (and always will) for the strong leadership he has provided for our team over the years. However, as much as I love and respect him as a person and a player, I'm not sure he has it in him to carry the Pack to another Super Bowl -- or even a winning season. Let's be honest, the Packers *do* need someone to carry them. The rest of the team just hasn't been able to prove that they can do it on their own, and Favre has thus far been the only player able to produce that kind of leadership. Therein lies my mental dilemma. :P It'll be an interesting season, regardless!

I'm just glad that the Packers have started playing pre-season games and we're not all 100% focused on football yet, because the Brew Crew still has a shot in the post-season...

[steve]

Did Favre really say that? What a putz.

[KarenC]

Lisa, I agree that Aaron Rogers needs to get on the field and play. He had a great pre-season game on Saturday night against the Steelers. McCarthy said Rogers just needs to play; it’s the only way he’ll get better. However, I don’t know if McCarthy is capable of fashioning Rogers into a quarterback like Favre as Holmgren did. I don’t doubt that Rogers has the ability and talent to be a winning QB like Favre though. I guess we’ll have to wait and see when Favre actually retires. Until then, I’ll keep worshiping Brett. :)

[char]

I think this will definitely be Farves lasy yr. He's not as passionate about playing. I'm not looking forward to this years team. The Brewers aren't doing so hot either, but I still enjoy watching. Fielder didn't deserve the suspension for the arguement. We really need his hitting now.