A day or two before that game, my dad took me and my brother to Lambeau at 0 dark 30 and waited for the players arrive for their morning meetings. This of course was before they gated the area around the door. I had gotten Sean Jones, LeRoy Butler, and a few others to sign a helmet I had.

But the best one…was watching Brett Favre come around the corner, I ran to him as fast as I could, and held out my “Mississippi Rifle #4″ hat, looked up at my Packers idol, who so many times I pretended to be playing back yard football, and asked him as politely as I could to sign it. He smiled down, took the hat and gave it back with a wink as I said thanks. I just stood there, in shock, in awe, and soaked in the greatness I had just been around. To this day that memory still gives me goose bumps.

When the split initially materialized, I was torn. At that point, I was a Packers fan AND a Favre fan. He still wanted to play, and it just wouldn’t be for the Packers. The trade to the Jets hurt, but my childhood idol was still my favorite QB.

August of 2009, all that changed. Whether facts or hearsay, why he put on that dreadful Vikings jersey, I’ll probably never fully understand, but he was forever lost/dead to me. A division rival, followed by remarks he made about the Packers, thier management, and even the fans. To me it was just too much, and still is. You always hear “forgive and forget”, or “I forgive you, but I’ll never forget this”,…mine is probably the later with Favre. Not sure when or how, but maybe someday.

My anger has been tapering of with time. I definitely think watching this movie helped me with that. Something about seeing the whole story and seeing a conclusion is allowing me to have one of my own.

Hope you find your peace with it soon.

As for revealing something new, I’d say not fully, there’s no smoking gun/aha moment where the audience will go WOW. But at the same time I felt like I learned things watching it. There are things that I didn’t know that went on or that I knew happened, but had no idea their context. LDAL does a really good job of putting things into their context, especially with all the interviews.

The film is definitely not just a summation, re-do of everything that happened and there is something to be gained from hearing the different perspective. Imagine every reporter who you know now sitting down with you and giving a very detailed account of what went down, their personal stories, how they got information. Its like that but doesn’t take as long.

As for a reason to watch: One of the main reasons I wanted to is because I think I can learn things from watching something I felt like I experienced from the inside, from the outside. There is something very different to watch the history of and the how something unfolded than to live through it. In college I took a Beatles music class. Someone asked why he didn’t show the Beatles Anthology documentary in the class. He said because its not accurate, because even though it’s their voices and they were the Beatles, sometimes we change the way we remember things. For example, Paul says they recorded a Day in the Life with an 8 track. They didn’t. It didn’t exist yet. They used 7 tracks of two 4 tracks. He wasn’t lying that’s just his history. LDAL provides enough back ground and different voices so you get the real story and not a remembered story.

I can so relate to this statement, I want to be able to watch clips of the 90′s and not feel bitter. I want to be able to watch the 1996 America’s Game and enjoy it again. I’m getting there, but still have a long way to go.

I asked the same question in the comments section of John’s post, but I’d like to hear your thoughts as well:

Does the film reveal anything new?

I guess I’m struggling as to why I’d want to watch it. I followed the saga daily as it unfolded and really don’t feel like I need to have everything I already know summed up in film form.