subject: Nfl Tickets - Favre Prepares For Return To Lambeau - And So Do Packers Fans [print this page] Brett Favre fueled the fire to a roots-deep rivalry between the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings this season when he opted to join the Vikings after spending more than a decade as the face of the Packers, and this weekend the quarterback will return to Lambeau Field for the first time as a Viking. NFL tickets have sold like crazy for the Week 8 Green Bay-Minnesota matchup at Lambeau, and Favre isn't the only one preparing to face his old team.
The Appleton, Wisc. radio station 105.7 WAPL has decided to take Favre's return to Green Bay in stride, throwing in the element of Halloween that will be occurring during Week 8 of the NFL's regular season to start a charge for a Brett Favre burial service this weekend. That's right, Packers fans in the Green Bay area will get the chance to say a formal farewell to Favre at a funeral service will take place for No. 4 the Friday before the big Packers-Vikings game at a club outside of Lambeau Field.
According to Len Nelson, one-half of the Rick and Len Show on WAPL, the idea for a Brett Favre funeral came from a common conception that No. 4 is dead to Packers fans, and he recently said, "We think what we need is some closure for Green Bay Packers fans... A lot of fans have said, 'You know, when Brett joined the Vikings, that's it, he's dead to us now,' and if someone's dead, you have to have a funeral, so that's what we're gonna do on Friday afternoon."
The "Funeral-4-Favre" will take place Friday afternoon (Oct. 30) from 3-6 p.m. and will be broadcast live on 105.7 from Tom, Dick and Harry's in Green Bay, and the funeral service will come complete with eulogies, pall bearers, donations (of Brett Favre Green Bay jerseys, of course) and live music. The service will also feature a hearse bringing a mannequin of Favre dressed in Vikings apparel, and the good-natured event will also provide an opportunity for Packers fans to donate money to local charities, including the Deanna Favre Foundation, which was started by Favre's wife Deanna after she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
Of course, the Brett Favre funeral in Green Bay will all be in jest of No. 4 returning to his old home field this weekend for the first time since he became part of the team's bitter rivals the Minnesota Vikings, but it's the Packers that have something to prove in Week 8 as Aaron Rodgers and Co. attempt to avenge the Week 4 loss they suffered to the Vikings in a 30-23 loss at Minnesota's Metrodome earlier this season.
Packers fans are already fired up for this weekend's monumental game at the famed Lambeau Field, and tickets to the big game can still be found, along with tickets to several other games this season. Will Brett Favre take the adrenaline rush and perform his best in Sunday's post-Halloween game, or will he succumb to the pressure from his old fans? It's all to come as Week 8 gets underway!
