I hate Brett Favre.  Cannot stand him.  But you know what I hate more than Brett Favre?  The media’s enormous boner for him.  Last night’s game was a great game except that every single announcer, feature, montage, and graphic was about slurping on Brett.

Sometimes I wonder: Is it just me?  Am I taking crazy pills?  Since I’m a Bears fan, I naturally hate Favre, but maybe people love him everywhere else?  Then I see this screenshot, and it calms me down and makes me realize I’m not the only sane one out there:

Sigh.  Truth be told I’ve googled about half of those things, but so have a ton of other people apparently.  Whew.

h/t: Deadspin

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