Brett Favre will be welcomed by Green Bay Packers: Paul Hornung
Hall of Famer Paul Hornung said that Brett Favre will someday be welcomed by Green Bay Packers’ fans.
If their beloved team can win a Super Bowl with a quarterback other than Favre, it may help fans get over Favre’s horrible season and successive departure.
“Then everybody will be over it,” Hornung said with a laugh.
The halfback, quarterback and placekicker Packers star says that it was hard for everyone involved to watch Favre leave his beloved Packers but also said that he feels like it happened a lot longer ago now that the Packers have Aaron Rodgers to swoon over.
“He's getting better every game, and he's the best quarterback in the league right now,” Hornung said.
Rodgers will have his chance at the sport’s biggest game when he takes the team to Texas to face the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLV on 6 February, 2011.
75-year-old Hornung is naturally picking his own team to beat the Steelers, but only by a field goal. He believes that it is the start of an era much like the team that he helped to make in the 1960s. Back when the Vietnam War was going on, Vince Lombardi
took the Packs to win the first two Super Bowls as well as five National Football League titles.
Therefore, the Rodgers-led Packers will do all they can to win the Lombardi Trophy, which is famously named after their own winning head coach.
Hornung says that there is proof of better days down the road by looking at the injury roster. The Packers have put 16 players on the injured reserve roster during the 2010-11 season.
“Next year when everybody's back, they're going to have the best football team in America,” Hornung said. “They're really going to be special.”
One of the Packers already sticks out in his mind. That is of course, Rodgers. He has taken the team to their fifth Super Bowl appearance and has managed to keep Favre from overshadowing him by creating a shadow of his own.
“This quarterback has had a special year; he's been absolutely double-sensational,” Hornung said. “He's the best passer I've ever seen running to his left. I've never seen somebody come out of the pocket and control the ball like he does. He is very, very
accurate.”
Will the Packers get better next year, stay the same, or go down? Let’s wait and see.
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