Madden predicts Saints win Super Bowl XLIV

Why does everyone on JS have to HATE something? Would be refreshing to hear someone say: "I like both ___ and ___ so I have no idea how to call this!"

Neutral stances aren't interesting. But they aren't boring, either!

Yeah I was worried for a while that the Vikings were going to win that game. I literally could not put up with 2 more weeks of ESPN slurping that douchebag, asshole Brett Favre.

The last couple minutes of that game + overtime were glorious for me. Like I told my friends in the beginning of the year and throughout the season when he was playing good: it's Brett Favre. Sooner or later, he will cost the team their season.

Then when it looks like they're going to win by a field goal, he throws a ridiculously stupid INT and they lose in OT. I can't even explain how happy that game made me.

hah, i thought the same thing about favre. that game was fantastic.

Oddly enough, though I too despise Favre, I was pulling for the Vikings in the NFC Championship. They were more likely to beat the Colts and they would have won if Peterson could hold on to the fricking ball.

How anyone can think that Brett is a "douchebag asshole" is beyond me.

Die Hard Viking fan here. I don't wanna hear any trash about Brett causing the Vikings that game. The Vikings would not have gotten a bye or passed the first round without him. Besides, it was the fumbles that caused them to lose. Brett had a bad game, but so did most of the offense especially Adrian who had 3 fumbles (The botched hand-off went to Brett, but Adrian admitted it was his fault). Thinking back it's a crazy they had 28 points and forced overtime in the first place. Not to mention the coach's mistake with the 12th man in the huddle penalty that brought us out of field goal range before that interception (he called two different plays and did not clarify which was going to be called). It's stupid to say you knew he was going to cost them the game after the season he had, setting career bests and almost every stat possible, and at 40 freaking years old. That is just holding onto the past and your own hate for Brett which played no part into the game.

Well, for one, he thinks he's the greatest QB to play the game with his lifetime 86 passer rating.

@ Trey

Packer, Bear, Jet, and 49er fans hate him.

And for kicking their asses basically. There was a time when Viking fans hated him, but you have to support your team and QB no matter what.

Since when has he ever said that? Sounds like bitterness to me.

There's nothing more frustrating than writing a huge long reply, specially about why I hate Brett Favre and think he's the most overrated QB in history...only to be swatted down by a Joystiq "You Did It!" error

FML >.

And thus Justice is served.

I'm football agnostic (I don't give a damn who is playing as long as the game is good), borderline football atheist, I'm close to just giving up on the sport after all the crap that's been going on the past few years.

He swaggers around like he owns the place, especially with those various tiffs he had with the coach this season. Farve has the arrogance to believe he can be a no huddle QB. He just isn't that smart, few are (Manning is one of those rare cases), and this attitude showed in the playoffs. No one knew who was calling the shots. Sure, you can blame the coach for this sort of thing for not asserting his position, but who exactly is the back office going to support, the coach or the multi-million dollar talent? Farve knew that and bit off way more than he could chew. Raw talent only goes so far before being outplayed and out classed by the competition (Saints). He lacks the humility to realize that he's just good, not great. I'm also one that doesn't hang his hat on what people say, it's what people do, and Farve acts incredibly arrogant, both on and off the field. He barely cracks the top 20 greatest QBs, let alone being an elite among the best.

Farve is just too old to be able to salvage greatness. You can't teach an old dog new tricks. Farve thinks he belongs in the rafters with the likes of Unitas and Montana, that's why I don't like the man.

Diehard Vikes fan here, even though I don't live in MN anymore. Britfar is a douchebag asshole, I've never liked him, and I'm still steamed that sack of garbage came to my squad. While Britfar did to some extent cost us the game, he certainly doesn't deserve all the blame. And yeah yeah, we likely wouldn't have gotten that far without him, big whoop. Now we're in for another offseason where Britfar is going to dick us around and then finally decide to come back midway through the preseason.

I'll make a condensed version.

First, I'm not a fan of any of those teams. I'm a bronco fan, and one of the best moments of my sporting life is not just them winning 2 super bowls, but that one of them was against Favre.

Favre is a mediocre QB at best. He has 1 super bowl, the same as Trent Dilfer, and he won it when I was in elementary school against a mediocre opponent (drew bledsoe? lol). When he went up against a true all time great in the super bowl he lost.

He has padded stats because he just slings the ball down field all the time, which is also why he is the ALL TIME LEADER in interceptions. His extremely poor decision making is some of the worst of all time, and literally just about every year his horrible desicion making costs his teams their season.

As for his ranks in the all time QB list, he is near the very bottom, only above Dan Marino because of the 1 super bowl. He is just below Peyton Manning because yes Peyton will eventually pass all the stats, but even if he doesn't win another super bowl he is a far better QB in terms of running an offense than Favre could ever hope to be.

Brett Favre is a hick with a strong arm, not a very good actual QB.

Damn, through all that and I forgot to mention the most important part.

He sabotages his teams eveyr year in ways that would make even TO jealous. He brings chaos to his team every offseason because he holds them in lingo until August...not because he doesn't know if he'll be back, but because the lazy diva doesn't want to practice or go to training camp.

Then in the season, the first time a coach wants him to do something he doesn't feel like he should do he throws bitch fits in the locker room...which convienetly ALWAYS leak out to the media, which brings ANOTHER circus atmosphere to the team, distracting them from their goals.

LaughingTarget you entire post holds no water. I've seen him post game in the locker room and he has never done anything to justify what you are saying. He just likes to play ball. He is the Iron-man of the sport. That is why people like him and people say he is good. He never went against what the coaches said. That incident in Carolina he was being ASKED to sit for his health. The coach gave him a choice to sit and he wanted to keep playing. Watching the Vikings all my life I can tell you we don't run a no-huddle offense period unless it's the two-minute drill or we have consecutive plays in place. He has called various audibles but that is why we got him. So he can read defenses and make plays.

Brett Favre is as an amazing football player as he is a person. There's an old saying in the surfing world where we say, "the best surfer is the one having the most fun."

The same can be said about Favre, "the best football player, is the one having the most fun." Watching him play is like watching a high school or junior football game. He's the first one with his arms up, smile on his face after a touch down or a big play, running to celebrate with his teammates. He's the one out there not only working his ass off, he's the one having fun and enjoying every second. He might be in it for the paycheck but you NEVER see that with his demeanor on and/or off the field. He's the reason why football is exciting and has been exciting, at least for me, for the past 14 years (this coming from a 49er fan).

Both of these defenses are in the bottom half of the league, while both of the offenses are in the top ten.

The Bucs beat the Saints. That saying was made invalid at that point.

The statement "It always predicts well because it's good at predicting" would beg a question. The above example does not.

You know nothing about football as you are brainwashed by the syndrome called dickriderides. Which means you ride the colts D until you are sore for a week. Go back to playing games we all know you do not watch football.

Someone please do a screen capture so that when EA starts doing futbol simulations and predicting them with wild accuracy, we can tell leniado what we've all known for years: soccer is incredibly stupid and boring.

;)

(Seriously, how is it exciting to watch guys kick a ball all over a field and NOT score? OMG, HE JUST DID A SLIDE TACKLE!!! Yeah, too bad nobody remember those unless you break someone's leg. We always remember the great touchdowns or field goals...)