Brett Favre Sticks It To His Old Team

Two years later, Brett Favre is still carving up porous NFC North secondaries.Full disclosure: I'm a Green Bay Packers fan, and one who fell in love with the team at the height of Favre's having-fun-being-the-best-quarterback-in-the-NFL reign. I cannot tell you how many times I read something about how Favre got to aerate the often-woeful secondaries of the NFC Central and NFC North in those years, but I can tell you that seeing him do it as many times as he did for the Packers never lost its appeal. When Favre is on -- and, even when his prodigious ability to throw the deep ball metastasized to the inability to avoid throwing 20 interceptions a season, he still had games in which he was on as a Packer -- it is a joy to watch. At his best, at his luckiest, Brett Favre is a guy who can play football like kids do in backyards, and get away with it because his arm allows him to rifle footballs into tiny windows and past the tightest of coverages.That's what Favre did today,...