A letter to Brett…
By justin | August 26, 2009 12:52 pm
(This is from a local radio station, but incredibly well put…)
Dear Brett,
So, you changed your mind and now you’re a Viking. And you think your true fans will understand. But before the season gets underway, there’s a thing or two we’d like to get off our chest. We know you have time to read this since you tend not to want to spend a lot of time practicing anymore.
You say your legacy is your own whether we like it or not? We disagree. While no one can argue that your talents aren’t incredible and that your accomplishments aren’t amazing, we want to point out that you forgot something. You forgot about us. We were the ones who watched you every week from the stands and from our living rooms.
We were the ones watching when you completed your first pass as a Packer to yourself.
We were the ones watching when you and Reggie White and Mike Holmgren and so many others made it to the Super Bowl and brought the Lombardi Trophy home.
We were the ones who welcomed you home when you lost the next Super Bowl. We were sad, but still proud of you and your teammates and still happy to be Packer fans.
We were the ones who didn’t judge you when you had personal issues, and defended your honor to lesser fans of the game.
We hated it when Holmgren left because we knew that could get in the way of you taking the Green and Gold back to the big game again and again.
We had heavy hearts and felt badly for you when your dad passed, and we knew and respected that every one of those 399 yards in Oakland on Monday Night were for him.
We cringed when you first mentioned retiring six years ago because we know that despite your record setting string of starts, all football careers eventually end.
You’ve made your choices, the Packers made theirs, and sadly you’re not with us anymore. We know it doesn’t matter to you that it’s nearly impossible to be a Brett Favre fan when you’re sporting a purple jersey. And we can’t predict if you will have wild success in Minneapolis or not. But when the whistle blows, we don’t care.
We are still, and will always be, Packer fans, win or lose. We thought that meant something more to you than it obviously does, and that hurts.
Maybe it’s just a fan thing, but still, I have a feeling things won’t go for your team as planned. Still, I hope you continue to enjoy the game. I hope the streak continues and you finish upright. I wish things were different.
And let’s get one thing straight…
Don’t you dare deny our part in your legacy. You were a hero — for our children, for our state, for so many of us.
You were a legacy because WE were there for you…
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I can’t be this busy…
By justin | August 25, 2009 1:34 pm
So I was thinking about why I hadn’t updated my blog in several months and the only thing I could come up with was that I was “so busy.” Well that’s bullshit, I’m not really that busy, sure things are still pretty busy at work, but so what, things are always pretty busy at work. Maybe it’s because it’s summer and to be quite honest, I’m just not spending as much time in front of a computer as I used to. Not really sure. I assume that as the winter months start to move in that my update schedule will come in a little bit, but who knows. With Facebook, Twitter, and the blog, does anyone really even care that much about what the hell I’ve been up to? I hope not, because to be honest, it’s truly boring. It seems like every weekend since late May has been jam packed with some activity taking me away from the house. I’m not complaining, if anything I enjoy the fact that I have enough going on in my life to get me out of my house in the few nice months of summer. Heading out to Madison to help a friend build a playset for his son or staying in Milwaukee to help another friend move, either way, it’s work, and usually people don’t want to be working in their time away from… well… work… but for me, it’s not the work that I worry about. At this point whatever gets my mind of the real job is a nice break… That being said, this weekend is the Jimmy Buffett concert at Alpine Valley and I’ill promise you that nothing productive will come of this weekend…. It’s about time… 
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The silence is deafening…
By justin | April 20, 2009 12:23 pm
Yeah… I know… It’s been awfully quiet around here, but what can I tell you, I’ve been busy. This program is hopefully coming to an end in the next couple of months. In the mean time, it seems like I get up, go to work, come home from work, grab some dinner, then either watch tv or game for a couple of hours and then off to bed. Some weekends allow me to do things I want to do, but most weekends are a combination of more work and previously made plans. I can’t wait for this program to be over and to get a little time to do whatever I want to do… Peace out…
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0-16
By justin | December 29, 2008 12:45 pm
ouch…
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I’m alive….
By justin | November 25, 2008 8:54 am
I know, I know. It’s been a long time since my last update and I have failed… Oh well… Anyway, life has been pretty busy. A couple weekends ago, I made it out to Firethorn’s place and had a good weekend relaxing and just generally hanging out. I also finally got to meet Jah in person, and enjoy some of his Detroit specialties…. Wait, I was talking about Ginger Ale, nothing else… Anyway, that was a good time and I am hoping that we can get all the guys from the IJSMP bunch together at some point in the near future.
In other things, the Marquette basketball season has started and those games have been a blast so far. So far we are averaging 100.5 points per game in our first 3 games and that is a huge number. I realize that we really haven’t played any big name teams, but it feels good to come out of the gate with a stronger offense than we have had in a long time.
The Packers are sucking it up and after last nights blowout, I am quickly losing faith in this teams ability to make the playoffs. No matter what I think about the Favre situation, this has been a tough season for the whole team and I’m really not sure if we would be any better or worse than we are now. Tough to say.
Thanksgiving is coming up this week and I will be heading back to the parents place for a few days to relax, watch football, and eat like a king. It should be nice to get away for a few days and not think about work. In general I love this time of year, yeah the weather starts going to shit, but in general, everyone is in a good mood for the holidays and it tends to make working with people a little easier. Well, that’s all I have for now.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving and don’t OD on the turkey…
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