Asked about our report that agent Bus Cook is telling people that quaterback Brett Favre wants to play for the Carolina Panthers, G.M. Marty Hurney said, “I don’t know where these things come from.”

Well, Marty, here’s how it works.  Human beings have vocal cords.  At a point roughly between 18 and 30 months of age, human beings begin using their vocal cords to articulate words.  By the time we reach adulthood, we use them all the freakin’ time.

In this case, “these things” came from Cook using those vocal cords to talk to other people about Favre’s desire to play for the Panthers.

Hurney should understand how the process works.  After all, he’s a newspaper man who got his nose far enough up Bobby Beathard’s rear end to somehow become an employee of an NFL front office, and he then navigated the process to somehow become the General Manager of a team.  So but for the fact that people will pay money to know what other people are saying and doing, Hurney never would have established a pathway into the job he now holds.