O3 Strategies, Inc. » Brett Favre http://www.o3strategies.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:03:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Brett Favre the FireFox 3.0 of football http://www.o3strategies.com/2009/11/brett-favre-the-firefox-3-0-of-football/ http://www.o3strategies.com/2009/11/brett-favre-the-firefox-3-0-of-football/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:57:55 +0000 Brian Onorio http://www.o3strategies.com/?p=649 I wanted to post a follow up to August’s post title “Brett Favre the IE6 of football.” Well how wrong were we?!

To date, Favre has passed for 1925 yards, 68% completion, 16 touchdowns to a scarce 3 interceptions and has posted a quarterback rating of 106.0. His average fantasy pick was 110! Talk about a steal…

Of course, much of his success can easily be attributed to Adrian Peterson. Favre himself has stated that he’s never played with a guy like Adrian (and few have, really). So this turn in events has caused us to rethink some things and restate our initial post.

It seems that Favre is hitting on all cylinders. Like Firefox, he’s add-on friendly (plays well in a variety of teams), is not the most popular of NFL quarterbacks (the Manning brothers or Tom Brady probably take that crown while the dastardly IE still has an overwhelming amount of browser marketshare), and he never crashes (his streak of starts is amazing… and this may be the one place he does differ from Firefox).

And thus, we apologize to Brett (we know you read this blog).

]]> http://www.o3strategies.com/2009/11/brett-favre-the-firefox-3-0-of-football/feed/ 0 Brett Favre is the IE6 of football http://www.o3strategies.com/2009/08/brett-favre-is-the-ie6-of-football/ http://www.o3strategies.com/2009/08/brett-favre-is-the-ie6-of-football/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:39:43 +0000 Brian Onorio http://www.o3strategies.com/?p=578 Brett Favre is a Viking, pending a physical.

Once considered perhaps the greatest current version, this faulty, quirky, and bug prone passer has become the entity that just won’t go away.

Speaking of icons who just won’t go away, this gels nicely with the fact that Microsoft will be supporting IE6 until 2014…

The engineering point of view on IE6 starts as an operating systems supplier. Dropping support for IE6 is not an option because we committed to supporting the IE included with Windows for the lifespan of the product. We keep our commitments. Many people expect what they originally got with their operating system to keep working whatever release cadence particular subsystems have.

As engineers, we want people to upgrade to the latest version. We make it as easy as possible for them to upgrade. Ultimately, the choice to upgrade belongs to the person responsible for the PC.

Anyone else notice that the ‘IE Blog’ from that link above looks like crap too… just like IE6?

The rest of us are going to have to live with Microsoft’s crap a little longer… just as the Viking nation will have to live with what was once a great quarterback, but is now just an inkling of what he once was in the face of newer, younger, faster, stronger, and more accurate talent for at least the next year, as Favre is set to sign a 2-year deal today.

Let’s compare and contrast the icons:

IE6 Brett Favre
No support for transparent PNGs Total transparency on passes
Developed by a once legendary corporation Developed by a once legendary team
Spotty CSS performance Spotty performance, period
Alive during the wee days of HTML 4 Alive when the fumblerooskie were still legal
A shady, gray take on standards A shady, gray take on beards
Lining up behind Firefox Lining up behind center
A major disappointment this far into career A major disappointment this far into career
   
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