All about the Brett Favre documentary

Get an in-depth look at Untold: The Fall of Favre and what the documentary means for everyone involved.

Last month, it was announced a documentary covering the controversy surrounding former QB Brett Favre would be released on Netflix. That documentary, titled Untold: The Fall of Favre, dropped this week. Many sports fans, especially fans of the Green Bay Packers, are already well aware of the allegations that have been made against Favre over the past 15+ years. I decided to take one for the team and watch the doc, because I thoroughly enjoy hopping on that hate train whenever it rolls into the station. Here’s a breakdown of the doc, plus my thoughts! BUCKLE UP.

Let’s start with the names interviewed:

• Michael Vick, former QB - I was very confused by this, until it suddenly made sense! We’ll get to that.
• Jemele Hill, journalist
• Bill Michaels, radio host
• Dylan Tomlinson, former journalist
• Rick Cleveland, journalist
• Reggie Warnsley, former college teammate of Favre
• Ron Wolf, former GM of the Packers
• Don Majkowski, former Packers QB
• Jenn Sterger, Favre accuser and former Jets employee
• Peter King, journalist
• Tim Andre, former Jets employee
• AJ Perez, reporter for Front Office Sports
• Ashton Pittman, journalist
• Bennie Thompson, Mississippi congressman

I had a pretty good idea in my mind of how this doc would be laid out, and it went as expected. Things started by talking about Green Bay both as a city and NFL franchise, and their 20-year slump after their domination of the NFL’s early years. We then dive into Brett Favre’s college career at the University of Southern Mississippi, including how he got the nickname “The Gunslinger”. There was talk of him perhaps being drafted in the first round in 1991, but he fell to the 33rd-overall pick when he was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons. They played a clip of his draft announcement, when his name was pronounced Brett “Fay-ver”. In hindsight, he maybe deserved this.

They then bring in former Packers GM Ron Wolf, who I was surprised to see make an appearance, given both his age and the fact that I think the Packers would prefer to stay away from this part of Brett Favre. The Falcons didn’t want Favre to play—he didn’t study film, he didn’t know what different formations were. Wolf mentions the Packers’ “sorry condition”, and how he, by chance, saw Favre throwing around on the field before a game. He immediately went to work on acquiring Favre in a trade. Then comes Don Majkowski, who had been the Packers’ on-and-off starting QB since 1987. His last game starting for the Packers was against the Cincinnati Bengals in September of 1992, when he suffered an ankle injury and was replaced by Favre. Favre lit up the field, the Packers won by 1, and the rest was history. He would go on to start every game for the team through the 2007 season.

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