You read the excerpts.

You may have been inspired to purchase the book as a Christmas president.

Now is your chance to help with the second edition.

Tom Kertscher, whose book "Brett Favre: A Packer Fan's Tribute," was excerpted here at OnMilwaukee.com last year, is looking for help from readers. His publisher, Cumberland House of Nashville, is planning a second edition of the book next year that will include tributes written by fans.

Here are the rules for submission:

Write about your strongest feelings about Favre or your favorite memory of him as a Packer. Tell uswhat made Favre special. The tribute could be general in nature or you could write, for example, about your favorite game or play.

There is no maximum length: but, generally speaking, tributes of fewer than 100 words stand a better chance of getting published.

Send tributes to Kertscher at tkerch@yahoo.com.

The book is available in bookstores, at Sam's Club and online at Amazon.com. Signed copies can be purchased directly from Kertscher at the regular retail price.

Here is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of the book, which details some of Favre's dominance over the Chicago Bears and details some of memorable games:

CHAPTER 7 -- RIVALS 

Nov. 22, 1992 - Packers 17, Bears 3 at Soldier Field: Before this game, Chicago Tribune columnist Bernie Lincicome put Favre in a league with Don Majkowski, the man Favre replaced, and the Packers' other quarterback, Mike Tomczak. It was doubtful, Lincicome wrote, that Favre would be "any more of a long-range savior than Don Majkowski was before him."

Typical dumb Bears fan.

In the second Packers-Bears contest of '92, with Green Bay ahead 10-3 early in the fourth quarter, Favre led a 13-play, 74-yard scoring march that put the game away. He went 5-for-5 for 53 yards on the 9-minute drive, which he punctuated with a five-yard dash for his first career touchdown. Favre chose to run -- chased by Bears linemen Richard Dent, Steve McMichael and William "The Refrigerator" Perry -- despite having dislocated his left shoulder the previous week, when Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Reggie White slammed him to the ground.

''I didn't even think about it,'' Favre said of his shoulder injury. ''At that stage of the game, anything goes.''

Chicago, which had beaten Green Bay five straight times, took the loss hard. In the locker room, the Bears huddled together, a Chicago reporter wrote, "like victims of a devastating natural disaster."

They would get used to the feeling.

Oct. 6, 1996 - Packers 37, Bears 6 at Soldier Field: Favre threw four touchdown passes, including a 50-yard Hail Mary off his back foot to wide receiver Antonio Freeman to end the first half.

''They're going to watch that film and say, 'Holy . . . ,' '' Butler said, finishing his thought with a smile. It was Green Bay's fifth straight victory over Chicago and, at the time, the longest such streak against the Bears since a five-game string from 1960-'62 during the Lombardi era.

"It's reached the point where every game, every quarter, every drive, every play, you expect him to do something wondrous," head coach Mike Holmgren said of Favre. "That's not really fair. You've got to remember, he's still a kid."

Gene Collier, a writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, put the Packers' new dominance in perspective. Going into the game, the Packers and Bears had played 150 times and the average differential in the final score was 1.83 points. But in Favre's five-game winning streak over the Bears, Green Bay had won by an average of 22 points.

Favre had helped sink the Bears to a new low. One Milwaukee reporter estimated that nearly half of the Soldier Field crowd that day was wearing cheeseheads or other Packers garb. Bears linebacker Bryan Cox moaned after the massacre, "We've got to get some damned heart. It's a line in 'The Wizard of Oz.' Some of our guys have to go see the Wizard because we don't have a lot of heart."

Favre had ripped it out. But some Bears remained unconvinced.

"I've seen better quarterbacks," defensive lineman Alonzo Spellman said of Favre.

Yeah, right.

Sept. 29, 2003 - Packers 38, Bears 23 at Soldier Field: The Packers ruined the Bears' debut in the new Soldier Field -- "a spaceship on stilts," some said -- by beating them soundly on Monday Night Football. Chicago got within eight points in the fourth quarter, but Favre put the game away with a 9-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Javon Walker with 8:51 remaining and a 1-yarder to tight-end Bubba Franks with 4:21 left.

New York Times writer Thomas George captured the hideousness of the new stadium and the helplessness of the Chicago Bears.

"The renovated Soldier Field has been called everything from a flying saucer to a toilet bowl, and a mismatch in style between 'Star Trek' and an old Western movie," he wrote. "Descriptions of these current Bears have been even more crude."

After the game, things got ugly again in Chicago:

"A huge game [and] we just embarrassed ourselves one more time," said Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher. "We went out there and laid a big one.

Butkus, the Bears' Hall of Fame linebacker, had visited with Favre on the field before the game. "It was about as close as any Bear got to him the rest of the night," wrote Don Pierson of the Chicago Tribune.

Pierson also offered a suggestion for any discussion of naming rights for Soldier Field: Brett Favre Playpen.

Going into the game, Butkus had had a premonition, flashing back to the stormy 1994 game at Soldier Field, when most of the crowd fled before he and Sayers could be honored at halftime.

"I remembered the night I got my number retired and that storm hit and I started thinking, `Something bad is going to happen,'" he said.

The same feeling, no doubt, that Bears fans experienced every time they faced Brett Favre.