In the annals of mainstream sports media, there is probably no more celebrated figure, especially in the face of on-field performance, than Brett Favre. Sure, he’s an automatic Hall of Famer and holds a boatload of career records that’ll stand for many years, but he’s only got one All-Pro nomination in the last five years, and his Super Bowl ring is well past a decade old. Moreover, his annual “do I come back or not?” ritual hamstrung the Packers’ front office and certainly made Aaron Rodgers‘ life uncomfortable for years before the Packers finally called bullpackers last fall.

(Brett Favre responds to criticism. Oh, we kid, we kid.)

And yet all the same, Favre’s constantly lauded by talking heads and lazy columnists; the announcers at today’s Chiefs-Jets game referred to him as “immortal” and “Sir Brett” without a hint of irony, and Peter King’s infatuation is well-documented. It’s enough to make an ordinary football fan throw up.

But Deanna Favre is no ordinary football fan, and she has had enough. In her first blog post on her family’s website, Deanna lashed out at the media for reporting on everything from the Lions scandal to, uh, Brett’s locker room pranks. And they’re lies, you see. All of them:

But, I will say, most hurtful are those media reports who would like you to believe that Brett is eaten up with bitterness over his split with the Packers. Still feeling some grief, sure… but not bitterness. Yes, in the beginning, Brett was angry and hurt with the way things ended, but how could he not be? […] Brett does not, in any way, hold a vendetta against his former team. But that has not stopped some from scrutinizing his every move and blaming him for so many things that simply are not true. Some incidents, like the locker room pranks appear funny (but they are still untrue)… Others, like the questionable phone calls to other teams, are hurtful, distasteful, and… still untrue as they have been reported. Because of this, lately, my heart has been so heavy. It is very hard to watch the daily toll this has taken on Brett… First and foremost, I am his defender when people tear him down. Thus, each word and accusation weigh down on me like a ton of bricks, because I know the truth behind the rumors.

We’re not sure what Deanna expects from the media, honestly; reporting on these things is, you know, their job, and stories like these usually aren’t just uniformly untrue or anything.

Also, as Tom Ziller at THE SPORTING BLOG explains, “I mean, even as Favre admitted giving a long dissertation on the Packers playbook to a Green Bay rival, big-name pundits like Peter King and the entire on-air staff at ESPN were finding ways to undercut criticism [about] The Gunslinger.” Simply put, Brett Favre is the most media-adored figure in the NFL today.

We do wonder, though: If being Brett Favre’s wife takes this kind of toll on her, what do you suppose she’d think if she were married to Barry Bonds?