In the final seasons the sideshow overwhelmed the actual show, the circus of the end, return, end, return, end of Brett Favre’s career making people forget how great he once was. Maybe that’s what can change as Favre enters the curtain call era of his life, starting with his induction into the Green Bay Packers’ Hall of Fame in 2015 and the retirement of his iconic green and gold No. 4. It will continue, almost assuredly, with a first-ballot entry into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016. It’s time. More than time, actually, for a guy who helped define the league for nearly two decades to be remembered more for that and less for the soap opera that engulfed him. In a sport defined by...
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