**THIS JUST IN…
…FROM “INSIDE THE NFL” ON SHOWTIME
At Wednesday’s taping of this season’s final episode of INSIDE THE NFL on SHOWTIME, analysts Phil Simms, Cris Collinsworth and Warren Sapp react to the news of Brett Favre’s retirement from the NFL.
INSIDE THE NFL on SHOWTIME airs tonight, Wednesday, at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
(Reaction to Brett Favre’s Retirement)
SIMMS: He did a lot of wonderful things. He gave a lot of people a lot of joy…. But the animal population down in Mississippi, look out! He’s retired. There’s going to be some serious hunting going on down there.
(On Favre’s Legacy Begin Hurt by Last Season’s Performance Down the Stretch)
SIMMS: Absolutely not. How could you let what he did with the New York Jets affect what we saw for all those years? He’s going to go down as one of the greatest throwers of all time. He was in my book. Nobody could throw the football like Brett Favre but a couple of other quarterbacks.
COLLINSWORTH: The fact that he connected with the fans in a way that not many in this league ever have. And don’t forget, the Jets, what did they win, four games before Brett got there? It wasn’t like he took them from a Super Bowl down. I think he got hurt at the end of the season. I called the game against the Patriots in New England and Brett was absolutely brilliant. You can’t give up all the good stuff that he did there (in New York) for what was a poor ending to the football season. And the other thing you have to remember, this is a business. How many of those luxury boxes in the new stadium, the PSLs. He created a buzz in New York that wasn’t there before he got there. Did he earn his money? You better believe it.
SAPP: One thing that he’s done even more than connect with the fans, he connected with his opponents and his teammates. I had the pleasure of hunting him… One, he didn’t want to go down and two, he was tough to get.
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