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Location: Manitowoc, WI | At this point he's the laughing stock of the sport's world, surpassing any pathetic accomplishments of anyone over the last month.......very disappointing to see a legend act this way.
I'm still a Favre fan to the end, but I can't hide my disappointment in his behavior, and this is not related in any way to which team he's playing with. | |
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Location: Oshkosh, Wisconsin | Some of us saw the true Favre years ago... This is nothing new. | |
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| The guy wants to play football. His old team didn't want him, so he found a new team. They are paying him money to do what he wants to do.
Is that really such a terrible thing?
If some place offered Sunshine big money to go back to male stripping, you think he wouldn't do it? We'd all love to get paid for doing what we love most. It's too bad football players, rockstars, and sperm bank donors are the only ones who do.
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Location: Rhinelander | Wow. Tough crowd here. | |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | No problem here, just make up your mind, play or don't play, and don't let all the press coverage go to your swelled head.....ridiculous that this should dominate any headlines. What if they start out 2-4? Is he going to change his mind again?
I listened to his press conference yesterday and turned it off once he proclaimed that his legacy was his. That said it all to me. Very selfish and disappointing for someone I've always looked up to.
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Once he was retired, and messed up training camp last year and then traded, I was done with him.
He will not take the Vikings to the promised land. They'll end up with broken hearts after a season ending pick, just like happened so many times here. | |
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Location: Appleton wi | Who's Brent Farve? | |
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | You all have to admit............ This will make the football season just that much more interesting. My 2 cents: It was going to happen all along and ole' Brett got away without having to do pre-season again. That is no mystery. Everyone knows he hated going through pre-season and has gotten away from doing it twice in two years. Lost all respect for the man several years ago. Some how we all thought that he was different. None of us know the man. I'm thankful for the great memories on the field. Care less what he does now. FYI, Do not expect me out of retirement back on the stage with the brass poles soon. Bad rotator cup and bad belly. But I do miss the tips from you Thumper.
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| Now how many of you have jumped ship and landed with the competition? The funny thing is I am a Favre fan.......(and a packer fan) but for so many of the past years he WAS the packers and he still IS the best football player to ever play the game. I am proud to say I get to watch him play again! I will buy the products he promotes and believe in the things he does. He didn't like the new management and got a new job....many of you have done the SAME thing.
You have changed boat sponsors, lure, rods and reel manufacturers, you continue to look for what you believe in and support their objective while it still bennefits you, and you live with the cards you are delt.....When you become good enough or rich enough you can play the game to the best of your ability but it's unfortunate that others stab you in the back and do things that are unethical all while you are trying to compete without promoting sponsors!
..........GO BRETT........(i can't get up the gumption to say go VIKINGS).....But I will watch every highlight and every game I can and I WILL wear my Number 4 Jersey to the game!
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| tyee - 8/19/2009 6:52 PM
Now how many of you have jumped ship and landed with the competition? The funny thing is I am a Favre fan.......(and a packer fan) but for so many of the past years he WAS the packers and he still IS the best football player to ever play the game. I am proud to say I get to watch him play again! I will buy the products he promotes and believe in the things he does. He didn't like the new management and got a new job....many of you have done the SAME thing.
Good Luck
Tyee I gotta say, the Tyee "Respect-o-meter" just dropped a few notches on that one. If you admit you were hammered when you typed it, I can maybe forgive you...maybe. | |
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Location: Appleton wi | Anyone who claims to be a favre fan and then a packer fan............is not a true packer fan! Your perception is skewed on reality on what transpired in the past 2 years. The mentality of favre was screwed over and the packers owed him the world is so warped and misguided by your man love for favre! I'm so sick of hearing about this guy and the "its all about me " I just wish he would loose his throwing hand thumb in a freak lawn mower accident so us true packer fans can put him to rest and end this cycle of torment!
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The world according to Favre
by Mark Kriegel
Mark Kriegel is the national columnist for FOXSports.com. He is the author of two New York Times best sellers, Namath: A Biography and Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich, which Sports Illustrated called "the best sports biography of the year."
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Updated: August 19, 2009, 6:57 PM EDT 1938 comments
Turns out that Brett Favre has something in common with his fans. My opinions are wasted on all of them. So let's hear from the man himself, the World According to Favre:
March 2, 2001, after signing a contract that made him the NFL's first $100 million player: "I do want to be a Packer for life ... I couldn't envision myself playing with another team ... If that was to ever come up, I would probably just retire."
November 7, 2003: "I don't know if it's going to be this year, next year. I mean, I still think there's a lot left out there for us and a lot left out there for me."
March 31, 2006, Biloxi Sun-Herald: "If I do play this year, it will be my last. There's no doubt about that."
May 6, 2006: "I know I said that. But I hope you guys will respect me. I'm going to play this year, give it my best and not talk about it."
September 6, 2006, in response to a question by Bob Costas, he says he's "99.9 percent" sure he'll retire as a Green Bay Packer.
December 31, 2006, interviewed by NBC's Andrea Kremer after Green Bay's 26-7 win over the Bears at Soldier Field: "If today is my last game, I want to remember it. It's tough ... tough. I'll miss these guys, and I'll miss the game ..."
February 3, 2007, quoted by Packers GM Ted Thompson in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: "I think I'll go one more time."
May 14, 2007: "... I don't want to be traded. I want to finish my career as a Packer."
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January 10, 2008, in the Biloxi Sun-Herald, three days before a playoff game against Seattle: "For the first time in three years, I haven't thought this could be my last game. I would like to continue longer."
January 21, 2008: "I'm not going to rush to make a big decision, but it will probably be quicker than it's been in the past."
March 6, 2008: "It's been a great career for me, but it's over ... I don't think I've got anything left to give."
April 3, 2008, asked about Favre coming back, his agent, Bus Cook, tells the Los Angeles Times' Sam Farmer: "That's news to me. I don't think that has anything to do with anything. He's retired, period, point blank."
April 10, 2008, Biloxi Sun-Herald: "I very well could be enticed."
April 25, 2008, before a luncheon honoring his image on the cover of Madden '09: "First of all, I'm not going to keep myself in shape ... There were always second thoughts ... It wasn't ever a clear-cut decision."
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August 8, 2008: "I'm here for one reason ... I'm here to help the Jets win."
February 12, 2009: "It's been a wonderful career, I couldn't ask for anything more. It was worth a shot for me to go to New York. I wish I could've played better down the stretch. I didn't.
"It's time to leave."
June 15, 2009, asked by Joe Buck about the Vikings (after his wife had made a deposit on a condo in Minnesota): "It makes a lot of sense because the pieces are in place."
July 29, 2009: "I didn't feel like physically I could play at a level that was acceptable. I would like to thank everyone, including the Packers, Jets and Vikings, but, most importantly, the fans."
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Location: Berlin | I am calling it right now, Vikings win the Super Bowl and I am 100% serious. You heard it here first. Good news is we are in for some very interesting posts over winter. | |
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | Rich:
If you are so sure, are you willing to give some odds (I think Vegas is 12-1 now)? Any gentleman's wager here? | |
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Location: Berlin | Absolutely, name it. | |
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | COMMENTARY Could the Favre, Childress conversation have gone like this? By Jim Souhan
Minneapolis Star Tribune
It’s Monday afternoon in Hattiesburg, Miss. A phone rings by what the Favre family likes to call the ‘‘cement pond.’’ A manservant wearing a tuxedo T-shirt forwards the call to Brett Favre’s gold-plated tractor phone.
Favre hears a gravelly voice say:
‘‘Mr. Favre? May I call you Mr. Favre? It’s Brad. Bald guy, trying to grow a beard just like yours? Mr. Favre, I’ve been calling you every day for two years, you should remember me by now. Yeah, it’s ‘Chili.’ My first name is Brad.
‘‘Anyway, Mr. Favre, I think our two-year plan has worked perfectly. Now it’s time to make our move.
‘‘We found a way for you to avoid going to training camp and sleeping in those cramped dorm rooms and practicing twice a day in that brutal Mankato heat. I know, living in Mississippi, you wouldn’t be able to withstand that heat. And I know, after you built your own presidential suite near the Jets’ locker room last year, that you didn’t want to be put in a situation where you might have to meet your teammates.
‘‘Now training camp is done, and you can finally move into that house you bought up here. Brilliant idea, buying Prince’s place in Chanhassen. Who’s going to notice another reclusive celebrity wearing purple in that neighborhood? Mr. Favre, I also liked your smoke screen, sending relatives up here to buy houses and condos all over town, just to throw people off. Brilliant. I could learn a lot from you. When I want to confuse somebody, I just talk in circles until their eyes glaze over.
‘‘Yes, Mr. Favre, I know you’re busy mowing the back 40, and I know the ‘My Name is Earl’ marathon is about to begin. I’ll get to the point. It’s time to bring you in. Anybody who didn’t like the idea of signing you has had a few weeks to watch Tarvaris Jackson and Sage Rosenfels. They have to be on board with this now. All we have to do is concoct the right story, so it won’t look like we’ve been planning for this day ever since you left the Packers, even though we’ve been planning for this day ever since you left the Packers.
‘‘Thank goodness you were such a pain in the butt in New York that the Jets traded up to get Mark Sanchez and then cut you loose. You played that just right.
‘‘I also like your idea about having arm surgery so you wouldn’t have to come to training camp. Wait, you’re going to tell them what? That you still have a tear in your rotator cuff ? Isn’t that going overboard? OK, OK, you’re the boss. Man, sounds like you want to win an Oscar as much as you want to win a Super Bowl.
‘‘So we’ll send Zygi Wilf’s plane for you in the morning. Z-y-g-i. The one who looks like Groucho Marx. Yeah, that’s the owner. No, don’t worry, you won’t have to talk to him, either. We’ll just make him stand in the back at the press conference.
‘‘We’ll fly you up here in the morning, conduct our ‘physical’ – don’t worry, we have a stunt double they can examine if you’re not up for it – and then we’ll hand you the blank check and get you on the practice field.
‘‘Yes, the practice field. Please? Pretty please? Listen, I’m going to have a hard enough time with my veterans after letting you skip training camp. You’ve got to go out there and throw a few passes, just so I can pretend I’m still calling the shots. Thank you, Mr. Favre, I appreciate it.
‘‘Listen, Mr. Favre, you’re going to have to be sensitive to my predicament. I always tell the players that training camp is important, that details are important, that learning the playbook is important, that cohesiveness and protecting the ball and making smart decisions are all important. You’re going to have to at least to pretend to care about all that, even if we both know you’re going to be drawing up your own plays in the huddle and throwing into triple coverage whenever you darn well please.
‘‘Also, we’re going to have to do one of those awkward press conference things Tuesday. I’ll get up there and act like you’re just another guy – I know, I’ll call you a ‘‘piece of the puzzle.’’ You should dress down – maybe wear what you wear when you’re throwing to those high school kids in Mississippi. That’s right, the sweaty golf cap and cargo shorts. That way fans will think you’re just like them, even though they can’t make their mortgage payments and you could buy Kuwait.
‘‘We’d like you to say that this isn’t about getting revenge on the Packers – I know, Mr. Favre, but sometimes in this job we have to twist the truth until it looks like a salted pretzel. We would like you to mention your family. Maybe say that your daughter really wanted you to come back and win another Super Bowl. If you can throw in some tears – yours, hers, whatever – that would give the TV people a sound bite they’ll play forever.
‘‘And remember the story we agreed on two years ago: You really couldn’t decide whether you wanted to play or not, and you kept working out and throwing at Oak Grove High because you just love working with kids. The TV people will eat that up, too.
‘‘So remember your checklist: Sweaty ball cap, cargo shorts, beard, daughter, my first name is Brad, not about revenge, you’re a team player. Most important, remember, I just called you the other day to see if I could change your mind, and you just so happened to be waiting by the tractor phone, ready to roll.
‘‘I know, I know, it’s really far-fetched, but you have to understand Minnesota. These people will believe just about anything. I mean, when I was hired, these fans thought I was a passing guru.
‘‘You don’t have to laugh that hard.
‘‘Oh, and one more thing, Mr. Favre. Please, please, please, during the press conference, don’t call me ‘Chili.’ People might get the wrong impression.’’
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New Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre walks with Vikings head coach Brad Childress during training camp Tuesday.
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Location: DeForest, WI | This just show guys like Brett, Darren Sharper, and Ryan Longwell were never trully Packers-
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | It's a business......and their business is to make money, no different than anyone else. I have no problem with them playing for another team, especially in SHarper and Longwell's cases where it was clear that they were not in the plans for the team's future.
The Favre situation is different. He told the Packers he wanted to retire. Then he changed his mind after they had drafted two quarterbacks, made other changes, and moved on.
I still believe that there is something to be said for the thought that after the NFC Championship game against the Giants that there was a big blowup between McCarthy and Favre. Rumor has it that Favre was sent in a running play on 3rd and 15 when he threw the ill-fated INT. When he tried to come back last year McCarthy said there were things he and Favre needed to talk about to "clear the air". I'm sure that the INT and Favre's lack of discipline were part of that conversation. | |
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| Great stuff Dennis!
I'll take some of that action Rich, with one caveat. Favre must start 14 regular season games, and all playoff and Superbowl games. If they make it that far.
It doesn't matter that #4 is now w Viking. Last year, I thought it was the most horrendous thing he could do tou us fans. Then, over the course of his last 5 retirements, and watching him revert to his uncoachable self with the Jets, I realized that I am a Packerfan, and he is just like so many others, just another former Packer.
#4 will not take the Vikings to the promised land. He will be uncoachable. He's already made it clear that he is in charge of this deal, not "Chilli". Childress was a bad caoch at UW, and I rejoiced ehrn he left for the Eagles. And then I rejoiced when the Vikes "beat" the Packer to the punch when they hire him before he could come for an interview. It's plain to see that Andy Reid was the better coach, and the real offensive genius, between the two of them. | |
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Location: Appleton wi | Jerry , I agree I also heard rumors about that last play in the NFC championship.
Just like the jets mengiti(mispelled i am sure) another example where a coach took the fall for a players screw ups! | |
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Location: DeForest, WI | Jerry-
I agree with everything you said in your post-
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | I second that BOXMAN. It's worse for me, as my brother and father are Viking fans, my sisters and mom are Bears fans, and I'm the only one with a brain and common sense!!! I've had the upper hand for the most part, for many years and, being the control freak that I am, I do not plan to give it back! | |
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Location: Berlin | Trust me Shep, you don't want any of this action. Our bet includes used chewing gum, an ugly stick, iodine, digital camera, 14lb trilene XT and (2) #4 wide gap gamagatsu hooks.
I will bet you that the Vikings win both games against the Packers if you want that action!
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| Rich, I'll take a bet on the Pack vs. Vikes. No way Farve wins at Lambeau. You think he was a basket case the first time Holmgren came back? Wait til he starts throwing the picks in this game! Probably end up his career with a 1:1 ratio TD/INT's!
1-4 in his forst start. Zero first downs! He's sore, not MUCH pain in his shoulder, his legs hurt, and he is inaccurate. Naw, he didn't need to train and come to camp! hehehe He's never going to last the season. No way "Chili" controls him.
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Location: Orland Park, IL | Well now I see Bob Sanders the old Def Coordinator for the Pack is now lines coach for Buffalo. The pack used Capers 3-4 and smoked the Bills with 3 turnovers in 16 minutes. Looks like the pack is shipping out more than just a qb. | |
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Location: Berlin | Shep - 8/24/2009 8:55 AM
Rich, I'll take a bet on the Pack vs. Vikes. No way Farve wins at Lambeau. You think he was a basket case the first time Holmgren came back? Wait til he starts throwing the picks in this game! Probably end up his career with a 1:1 ratio TD/INT's!
1-4 in his forst start. Zero first downs! He's sore, not MUCH pain in his shoulder, his legs hurt, and he is inaccurate. Naw, he didn't need to train and come to camp! hehehe He's never going to last the season. No way "Chili" controls him.
Go Pack! And we STILL have the best QB in the division! hehehe
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Location: DeForest, WI | I'm going to retire, no I'm not, yes I am, Oh I just don't know what I
want and then that big burly Chicago linebacker hit me so hard I broke a
nail so I said that's enough already and any way what's a girl to do,
those guys play too rough for me.
I gotta go now bye, bye.
Your BFF Sissy.
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| Shep - 8/19/2009 11:39 AM
Ho-Hum.
Once he was retired, and messed up training camp last year and then traded, I was done with him.
He will not take the Vikings to the promised land. They'll end up with broken hearts after a season ending pick, just like happened so many times here.
I LOVE it when I'm right!
And this pretty much looks like I did bet on Favre not winning the Superbowl.
Shep -I'll take some of that action Rich, with one caveat. Favre must start 14 regular season games, and all playoff and Superbowl games. If they make it that far.
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Location: Berlin | Shep - 8/24/2009 8:55 AM
Rich, I'll take a bet on the Pack vs. Vikes. No way Farve wins at Lambeau.
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| If by "cut grass" you mean roll around in more cash than any of you will ever see in your lifetime, hunt and fish whenever, wherever I want to, and never have to work another day in my life, then you are correct.
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