Kyle Brandt urges players to insist NFL media pronounce their names correctly

Kyle Brandt urges players to insist NFL media pronounce their names correctly

Brett Favre’s last name is spelled F-A-V-R-E. It’s pronounced, “Farv.” Those two facts have nothing to do with each other. Yet, for decades, every broadcaster, every analyst, every color commentator who has ever sat behind a microphone and talked about professional football has said it exactly right without ever being asked to think about why. The spelling doesn’t help. The letters give you nothing. And still, somehow, the NFL media looked at F-…