"Facre"

So Im watching sportscenter during todays 5am feeding (couldnt reach the remote) And it occurs to me after a featured story that I have a major pet peeve.

I truly hate things that are not spelled as they sound. In Europe (I am told by my very smart European pal Dessi) they spell everything as it sounds. Now isnt that really the smartest way to go about things? Seriously. Why the silent letters? Why the PH when we have F's ? The dreaded EI or IE my personal fave,uugghh .I mean, how do you explain these things to a child? Clearly my teacher skipped that lesson as I am at a loss when my kids ask. (Okay so maybe I talked more than paid attention in English or school in general, but give a girl a break. Social butterflyism runs in my family.)

What Im getting at is BRETT FAVRE. I can not find the reasoning for why his name is pronounced R first!!! I have gone over this in my head every time I have seen him. It truly angers me more each time, it just makes no dang sense! Wouldn't it stand to reason that we should also call the Farmer in the Dell the Famre in the Dell then? On SNL it wasnt Chris Falrey right ? And of course the smelliest of the FAR words, I wont go there but you get my drift.... Thats neither here nor there.What is here and there though, is that the pronounciation of his name is ridiculous in my book as it does not apply to any other FAR words! Let me tell you what I think happened....

Picture it - The Mayflower September 1620. Families are bording the ship in their snazzy black and white digs ready to cruise on into the new world. Family "Farve" checks in on the official roster. They get to America and enjoy a feast of Turkey, and Corn with some natives, maybe a little too much corn wine was drank "everclear" as we now know it to be. So the head of the family signs off on official documents when his head was far from clear and that sealed them forever into America's history as the Favre's ? Im pretty sure Im close here, its really the only reasonable explanation.