I honestly agree with Seinfeld when he said we cheer for laundry. I hate Favre, more because of the excessive attention he gets for the exciting things he does and the free ride he gets for all the bone-headed things (that some people spin into a positive - 'he's a competitor, a gunslinger...' etc etc) BUT if he has ended up a Patriot after a Brady injury, I know I would be excited... why? Because of the laundry he'd be wearing.
I honestly agree with Section103.
Favre DID get a free ride from Packer fans, and the love for him in my state only seemed to grow as the years went on after his Super Bowl years of '96 and '97. As more and more of the players from those years left, either through free agency or retirement, Favre became a kind of focal point - "as long as we still have Brett we've got a chance."
But I've been saying this for years to anyone who'll listen - when he's good, he can be very good, and when he's bad he can be very bad. Packer fans used to love to brag that the team had never lost a playoff game at Lambeau Field, but with Favre they lost two, chiefly because of his "win the game on every play" attitude, throwing the ball all over the place.
I'm not the kind of guy who hates other teams' players just because they play for another team. I just got sick of the fawning people did over him, and especially the dink he's been the last few years. I lost a lot of respect for him when he mouthed off at a reporter who asked if he was doing any mentoring of Aaron Rodgers.
Had he wound up playing for us, I guess we could do a lot worse, and I'd root for him too. I have to wonder how his "competitive" style would mesh with Belichick's approach, however.