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Message: <blockquote data-quote="milani" data-source="post: 1001276" data-attributes="member: 6654"><p>Well. That tells you there is a difference in fan appreciation up until now between Favre and Rodgers. Favre brought a team that was all but dead for 25 years except for a few deep breaths to the pinnacle of pro football. He became the face of the franchise. There was only one losing season in all his time in Green Bay which happened to be in Thompson's inaugural. The anger was directed at TT for allowing the team to collapse in 2005. But Favre's success continued for 2 more seasons. And he departed from a team that was one play away from the SB. That is when the dam broke.  Favre actually wanted to remain a Packer at the time of his departure. Rodgers did not. There is a difference between reacting to simply drafting a rookie QB in the first round and reacting to replacing your HOF QB 3 seasons later. I believe media plays a strong role in selling fan base opinion. They needed a story back in 2008 and they needed one now. But I will again point out that Lombardi selected in the first round at #25 of the 1967 draft a QB named Don Horn right after Starr was named League MVP and destined for the HOF.  Neither Starr, nor Lombardi, nor any Packer player, nor the fan base, nor the media made a big deal of it. The drafting of Love has been treated by media as an insult to Rodgers instead of a GM addressing his future roster needs.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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