Oct 24th 2008 5:00PM by Ryan Wilson (author feed)
Filed under: Jets, Lions, Packers, NFC North, NFL Fans, NFL Coaching, NFL Media WatchI haven’t talked to Sal Paolantonio’s hair about this, but based on several comments from the host, I can only assume that he’s not a big Brett Favre supporter. In March, ESPN excerpted part of Paolantonio’s book and slapped it with this title: “Overhyped: Favre Didn’t Deliver in Second Half of Career.” Shockingly, Green Bay fans weren’t impressed.

To his credit, Paolantonio responded to his critics a week later, writing this in a letter to the editor of the : “Thank you for Mike Vandermause’s smackdown of my espn.com column on Brett Favre. But I take issue with one major point: I was not trying to criticize Brett Favre, only offer some healthy perspective, provide an alternative take. Favre, as I pointed out, is a bonafide first ballot Hall of Famer. But I just wanted to hit the pause button on the over-the-top deification of No. 4. In my view, he is not even the greatest Packers quarterback of all time. That would be Bart Starr.” Now that we’re all caught up, Favre has been in the news recently for spilling the Packers’ game-planning beans to his huntin’ buddy Matt Millen back when Millen still had a job.Continue Reading