Favre's 200th

OK, I'm a Packer fan. I have been since way before Favre was traded to the Packers. Since before Don Majkowski was the starter. Since before the horrible pick of Tony Mandarich. The bad years. The years where making 8-8 was a noble goal. And rarely achieved.

Then the Pack got Favre. And suddenly winning the conference every year was normal. Against good teams: Tampa Bay with its dominating defense and the Vikes with their speedy offense. The Pack went to two Super Bowls, winning one. We lost a good coach to Seattle, and an amazing personnel guy in Ron Wolf. Our defense has had its good years, when it was underrated, and its horrible years (4th and 26 anyone?).

All the same, the amount of pure idoltry for Favre this past weekend was absurd. Yes he hit a plateau. But its the same problem I have with a lot of other "plateaus". So Barry Bonds hit #400 or #500, whatever he's up to. Its just a round number. Why is #200 better than #201? or #199? They're good. They're producing numbers and playing. Until they retire, they will continue to play and produce numbers. When the streak ends, thats the number thats important and meaningful. In between, there shouldn't be any difference.

We need to end the bias against non-round numbers. Pick #11 or #107 or #76.2352 or pi. Celebrate those numbers instead. Because the media hypes something, even something special thats ongoing, as more special because of the round number.