That’s part of the greeting quarterback Brett Favre will receive on his return to Lambeau Field on Sunday when the Vikings play his former team, the Green Bay Packers. The Green Bay Press-Gazette is publishing the slogan in tomorrow’s paper so readers can cut it out and bring it to the game. https://greenbayhub.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20091023/GPG05/91013103
The newspaper promoted voting on welcome home slogans and the message above was the winner, capturing 28.5 percent of the votes. “We have 12-reasons to 4-Get you” was runner-up at 21.4 percent and refers to Favre’s successor with the Packers, No. 12, Aaron Rodgers.
Various emotions will be experienced by those watching the game at Lambeau and on TV, ranging from hatred to love for Favre who played 16 seasons in Green Bay. There are those, too, who are so conflicted they root for both Favre and the Packers.
The Vikings don’t need Favre’s first trip back to Green Bay as incentive. There are more than enough motivating elements without that storyline.
The Vikings lead the NFC North with a 6-1 record, while the Packers are 4-2. Green Bay lost the first game with the Vikings this season and certainly doesn’t want to make it two straight. And the historic rivalry between the two franchises is almost always a motivation for the teams and a contributing reason why the series of wins and losses is so close. (The Packers lead 49-47-1).
“You take this storyline (about Favre) out of the game (and) it’s a huge game for them, a huge game for us just in the division, because the only way to assure a shot at the Super Bowl is to get in the playoffs, and the best way to do that is win the division,” said Ryan Longwell, the Vikings kicker and a former Packer. “It’s a big tough game beyond Brett going back.”
Longwell, a Vikings captain, is even more convinced that the Favre storyline doesn’t matter because of the loss last Sunday to Pittsburgh, the Vikings first defeat. “I think guys are really focused (and) understand what’s at stake,” he said.