Sunday, November 1, 2009

Favre hears boos everywhere he turns in first visit back to Lambeau

URL: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/football/nfl/11/01/favre.booed.ap/index.html

Author: Not listed.

Summary: Something Packers fans wished they would've never witnessed - but yes, Favre did return to the historic Lambeau field in Wisconsin, where he was the pride of the state for 16 years, in the colour of Green Bay's most hated rival: Purple. Indeed, that is the Minnesota Vikings. Some die-hard cheesheads even wore t-shirt which read, "True Legends Don't Wear Purple."

Most strictly booed, saying after Brett Favre re-re-came out of retirement to join the Vikings, saying it was like coming to church on Sunday and having the priest tell everybody to go home because Jesus has sided with the devil. Some, though, cheered him on claiming that they still wanted to see him do well. Either way, everyone knows that in the NFL it is a big deal when something like this happens.

The Vikings went on to win it 38 - 26.

What I learned about writing: I noticed how in this piece, the author, whoever that is, saved the quote, which summed everything thing up so nicely, for last. I learned that using a statement like this gives the entire article a great kick at the end.

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