NFL Preseason : Patrick Willis Sack of Brett Favre Excites Twitter

Brett Favre - hated by some on Twitter

In NFL Preseason action The Minnesota Vikings Quarterback Brett Favre made his 2010 NFL Season debut in a preseason game against the San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

Naturally, the 49ers were only to happy to welcome Favre and did so on the second play of the Vikings offense. It was a play that saw Favre get clobbered, which in turn lit-up Twitter.

Favre's throw pass was a swing pass out of the backfield that gained 13 yards and a first down.  The 49ers, determined to stop Favre and The Vikings, loaded the middle of the Vikings offense with the objective of sacking Brett Favre on 3rd down; the plan worked, as a retreating Favre could not backpedal fast enough to escape the onrush Pat Willis. The 49ers star middle linebacker hit Favre straight on and drove him into the turf.

That was the end of any more game reps for Favre.

Now, such a play would seem to be routine, but when this blogger happened to look at the Twitter Top Trends about 20 minutes ago as of this writing, "Patrick Willis" was one of the top five.

Get a load of what the Twitter users said;

brittmce - Best moment of my day: seeing Patrick Willis drive friggin Brett Favre into the turf. #49ers

BeauBreton25 - RT: @RyanCowette: Patrick Willis is sooooo much fun to watch, wow- best defensive player in the NFL

Legendary559 - RT @JRSportBrief: Patrick Willis killed Favre. America loved that. #NFL #49ers

behindnumbers
driven into ground a bit, not blindsided RT @rodimusprime: So some of ya'll say Patrick Willis killed Brett others say it was uneventful

To this blogger it was uneventful. Obviously, the Vikings lacked an audible to counter the blitz, otherwise the scheme would not have worked. That's the NFL Preseason.

But it's still interesting to see the number of people on Twitter who were actually happy to see Brett Favre get pummeled.