Come September 8th, Brett Favre’s number 4 will be officially retired by the Green Bay Packers. The honor is much deserved and will come during the Packs’ season opener against their hated rivals the Minnesota Vikings.
Favre will be just the sixth player to be so honored. The others are WR Don Hutson, FB Tony Canadeo, QB Bart Starr, LB Ray Nitschke and DE Reggie White. In all honesty, I haven’t heard of Mr. Canadeo but the rest are all no brainers for Green Bay.
Here’s the question. Why so few? What’s wrong with these guys:
Willie Wood – Hall of Fame Safety. 9 Times All NFL, 8 Pro Bowls, 3 Time NFL Champion, 2 Time Super Bowl Champ, Played for the team during its glory years and was named to the Sixties All Decade Team
JIm Taylor – Hall of Fame RB, Only guy to lead the league in rushing other than Jim Brown during Jim Brown’s career, Career Pack Rushing Yards leader, Held the Packers single season mark for many years, 1962 AP NFL MVP, Super Bowl Champion, Three Time NFL Champ
Sterling Sharpe – 5 Time All Pro WR, Career cut short by injuries, Led NFL in receptions three times and receiving TDs three times
Jim Ringo – Hall of Fame Center – Played 10 years for Green Bay, 10 Time Pro Bowler, 2 Time NFL Champion, Named to the Sixties All Decade Team
James Lofton – Not a fan of Sharpe’s? How about Hall of Fame WR James Lofton? Played for the Pack from 78-86 making 7 Pro Bowls and being named to the Eighties All Decade Team
Jerry Kramer – Should Be Hall of Famer Guard, Five Time All Pro, Named to the NFL’s 50th Anniversary team and the Sixties All Decade Team. It’s not enough the NFL Hall of Fame snubs him, but the Pack has to rub it in by not retiring his number. Football is a cruel game indeed…
Paul Hornung – Do I really have to make the case for the golden boy?
At this point, I could go on (do the names Herb Adderley, Forrest Gregg or Willie Davis ring a bell?), but I’m boring myself.
Fact is the Packers have one heck of a football tradition. For some reason they’ve decided to cheat some of it by being really stingy when it comes to retiring numbers…
2 Comments
July 18, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Always good to read about soccer and football.
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Very impressive, is it something that is just up to Google or you actively created?
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July 23, 2008 at 12:04 am
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I am not aware that I was picked up by Google news. Good to hear!