Fuck Buzz.

I don't care if this jerk off has a Pulitzer. He can shove his Pulitzer up his ass.

So Buzz Bissinger writes this scathing diatribe on what he thinks of Minnesota Viking QB Brett Favre in The New Republic. Good for "Fuzz" (like the lint you pick out of your belly button). He's entitled to his opinion. What he is NOT entitled to is second-guessing Favre's motivations - or anyone else's for that matter.

Here's Fuzz's statement I take the most offense at:

"He (Favre) knows what sportswriters crave, not just the junk food of the noble warrior but the soul-aching confessional, which largely accounts for why he admitted to being a Vicodin addict in 1996. He knew that, when he decided to play a football game the night after his father died in 2003, it would not be perceived for the act of self-absorption it was, but as an act of courage after he carefully spun it as that’s what pappy would have wanted."

Really? First off, that's mocking Favre and his father. Fuck you...you self-righteous, pompous queef. So Fuzz KNOWS Brett didn't opt to play in that Oakland game - a game where the usually merciless Oakland fans cheered for Favre - because Brett's a consumate competitor, never missed a game and that it's what Favre's "pappy" would've wanted. Or that perhaps it was the only way Brett could cope with his father's death, by playing the game his father coached him in since Brett's childhood? No. Buzz is convinced that Brett played the game simply because Brett's self-absorbed. And the world is supposed to believe what Fuzz says because he has a Pulitzer. But Fuzz is not self-absorbed.

Fuzz...if you ever call my father a "pappy", I will find you and kick you in your balls - then in your Neanderthal forehead. I swear to God.

My other issue is Fuzz's statement:

"Against the Saints, he (Favre) could have scrambled for at least several yards to set up a likely winning field goal and a trip to the Super Bowl."

"Likely"? Fuzz whips out his magic ball and KNOWS that Vikings' kicker Ryan Longwell was guaranteed to make a 50+ yard FG, particularly in a season where competent kickers were missing 35 yarders every other Sunday. I love people who know everything. God, I'm such a stupid fucker. Had I known the Vikes were going to lose to the Saints in OT, I might've saved myself the grief and skipped watching the entire season.

Fuzz has a Pulitzer. No one else can write. He's not self-absorbed. He hates blogs and probably most bloggers. Here he is on Bob Costas' show on HBO, ripping into the publisher of Deadspin. And get this - he berates Will Leitch of Deadspin for not caring about facts, yet Fuzz is the one who uses no facts - but assumes - Longwell would've "likely" made a 50+ yard FG for the Vikes to win the NFC Championship Game.

Lastly, Fuzz paints (as most Favre-haters do) Favre as the Hall of Fame QB who chokes in the playoffs. Philadelphia in OT (he doesn't mention that the Packer defense allowed the infamous "4th & 26" play that sent the game to go to OT), Giants in 2007 (no mention of the lack of Packer OL blocking or lack of running game...something like 35 yards gained) and Fuzz fails to mention that in the NFC Championship this year, the Vikes fumbled the ball 6 times - 3 lost and 2 of those were inside the New Orleans' 20-yard line.

All Brett's fault? Certainly not. Big INTs in big games? Sure. Course, everyone knows Favre purposefully blows big games which is the reason he only has one Super Bowl ring. Then there's the ever-present Packer, Favre-haters mantra concerning Favre, "there's no I in TEAM, Brett". Unless, of course, Brett throws an INT in the playoffs. Then it's all Brett's fault.

I don't care if this jerk off has a Pulitzer. Fuzz can shove his Pulitzer up his ass.