Favre hangs 'em up.

• Wow, so Brett is finally done. I'm kinda surprised actually. Everyone has read the permutations of the story that has defined my fandom over the last 16 (17 total, 1 with ATL) years.

• No matter who played QB for the Bears over that time, Brett has 0wned us. Last year, we beat him not once, but twice....it was definitely the exception to the rule. With those two losses, he was 22-10 lifetime against the Bears (regular season), and 12-3 at Soldier Field, so much for home-field advantage.
  

• Losing to the Packers was the one consistent thing that I could count on the Bears delivering me (besides the bad QBs, cruddy WRs, poorly performing RBs...sigh), season after season.

• I will toast his retirement from a Bears perspective, but as a football fan its definitely a loss. He more than anyone epitomizes to me the tough QB that every team needs, willing to just throw the hell out of a ball downfield and see what happens, INTs be damned. From a fantasy football perspective, he was a nightmare, a gambler. Though of course there's been a decline, watching him in 2007, you could hardly tell. I wonder what its like to be that old, and surrounded by teammates telling you, they had a poster of you on the wall. It must be sobering.

• He more than anyone realized that a long INT is just a punt, and sometimes its a TD. It was like watching Michael Jordan, you don't know what you're missing until its not there. He for the most part was pretty classy, and definitely did a wonderful job off-field supporting the Green Bay and MS communities.
  

• I want to know how many WRs had to get treated for damaged sternums playing with him.... ick!

• Best of luck Brett.