Too Much Favre Madness This Sunday?
No, not at all. And here’s why: because the average American football fan will watch it. They’ll eat it up. Brett Favre is that car crash on the side of the road; we want to look away, but we can’t.
So yes: FOX is planning on dedicating a camera solely to covering Favre on Sunday when he takes on his former team, the Packers, in Green Bay. His every movement from the moment he gets on the field to the moment he leaves it will be captured by one cameraman. I pity this man. You can even watch that camera’s feed online at Foxsports.com and NFL.com. This is completely ridiculous. But there will be people dialing that up on their laptops during the game, as silly as it is.
Oh, and about 91 percent of the country is going to get the game on Sunday, the highest percentage this season:
Favre country, indeed. A little overkill, you say? Perhaps. But it’s just good business. When ESPN can pull in the biggest cable numbers of all-time when Favre played against the Packers up in Minnesota earlier this season, why in the hell wouldn’t FOX broadcast this game to as many households as they possibly can? It just makes sense.
So yes, this is all rather ridiculous. But it’s calculated ridiculousness. And I think that makes it a little less grating on our souls.
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