Iraqi Detainees Tease Wisconsin Soldiers About Favre

It’s bad enough for Green Bay Packer fans to watch longtime quarterback Brett Favre tear up the football field for the rival Minnesota Vikings. But now even U.S. soldiers halfway around the world are getting teased about the former Green Bay golden boy—from suspected enemy militants.

Servicemen from the Wisconsin National Guard stationed in Iraq are hearing flak about Favre from detainees locked inside an internment camp, according to the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs. Favre is persona non grata in the state after retiring from the Packers in 2008 and then jumping to the New York Jets and now the Vikings.

The detainees picked up on all the Favre talk floating around—and the Packer colors decorating the camp—and quickly figured out how to get under the soldiers’ skins.

"They know Favre by name," First Lieutenant Tim Boehnen of New Richmond, Wis. told WTMJ, a Milwaukee radio station. "One of the big words they know now is shenanigan. They'll constantly talk about 'Favre shenanigans,' 'He's so good for the Vikings,' and 'The Packers have got to really feel bad about that one.' "

In spite of the razzing, the engineering-trained guardsmen have kept up their work repairing the facility, known as Camp Cropper.