Story Published:
Oct 29, 2009
Add Gilbert Brown to the list of former teammates that disagree with Brett Favre's comments about his current Vikings team being the best team he has ever played on.
The former Packers defensive lineman joined his former 1996 teammates in expressing his disagreement in Favre's assessment.
"I guess they going to the Super Bowl [then] huh," Brown said in an interview with Newsradio 620WTMJ's Big Unit, Bill Michaels.
"They got guys on their team that are good players. When you look at that defensive line, they got two big hogs in the middle and Jared Allen out there. When you compare our defensive line, which I played on, and their defensive line play, there is no comparison. This is why I get crazy about this guy saying this because Jared Allan can not hold Reggie White's jock strap."
Many have come to believe that Brett Favre was the sole reason the 1996 team won it all but Brown had a differing opinion.
"This is the thing fans forget and I point the finger at the media. Everything around the team was Brett Favre. They forget about the No. 1 defense. To get him the ball, to get the sacks, to get the fumbles, when he throws the interceptions, we had to go out there and stop them so they don't score. They forget about that No. 1 defense led by Reggie White."
Brown explained it was Reggie who was the leader of that very talented team not Brett.
"If we didn't have Reggie White in this equation, the Green Bay Packers would never have made it up to the Super Bowl. Reggie was the leader everybody could go to, everybody trusted, everybody just rallied around. When he said we had team meetings, everybody hated to have 50 team meetings in one week, but when Reggie called it, we'd go and Brett was following just like us."
That is not say to Brown did not feel Brett is a capable field general.
"Brett Favre is a great leader. He gets guys going. He gets guys in certain position where other guys can't get them to go to but on our team, the number one guy was Reggie White."
How did it make the Gravedigger feel to see his former teammate wear enemy colors?
"I was sitting there watching the game, it looked like somebody digitally put in that purple on that uniform. [Made me] sick to my stomach, grown man should never wear purple."