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As the Packers and Brett Favre continue their impasse regarding whether and where he’ll play in 2008, reports are surfacing that Favre is seriously considering the team’s shameful (in our view) bribe offer to keep Favre from playing football again.
Per Newsday, among others, Favre is contemplating “a marketing deal with the team that could be worth as much as $20 million.”
So Favre wanted to play again for reasons other than money, but he’ll take the money to no longer play football? This guy has done more damage to his legacy by not playing than any aging athlete ever sustained by hanging around the game for too long.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:41 pm
“…and my chicks for free”
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:42 pm
He is not considering it. Why take 20 mil over 10 years when he can ride the pine for 2 years and make 25 mil (and at the same time make Thompson look like a dick)?
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Hence why the Packers are doing what they are doing. Favre isn’t sure he wants to play football.
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:45 pm
It really seems that the ultimate outcome here is that everyone turns out to be a loser here (well, only $20 million isn’t enough to make Favre not to care about his tarnished legacy).
In fairness to Favre, he may feel that his only options to play aren’t what he hoped for and doesn’t want to just play for the Jets or Bucs for the sake of playing football.
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Florio say,
This guy has done more damage to his legacy by not playing than any aging athlete ever sustained by hanging around the game for too long.
100% with you on this one Florio.! This is a fiasco.
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Florio=bliss
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:48 pm
They should replay that tear jerkin’ “retirement speech” as a lead into every football game played on ESPN this year…Favre’s a joke.
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:48 pm
If this goes on much longer we’ll forget about his legacy and
only think of this debacle….
Let him back in to fight for a spot…(Cuz that’ll be hard to do.)
or get traded…If thats what they wanna do..
Either way…This is NONSENSE….
If the packers wanna win a title…Farve is your best shot for this
year….
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Drop kick us Brett Favre through the goal post of life,
You can’t ever retire and you’re always right,
Those key interceptions with spirals so tight
You drop kicked us BF through the goal post of life.
Drop kick us Brett Favre through the goal post of life,
You’re not the GM so listen to your wife
Retire from GB for the rest of your life
You drop kicked us BF through the goal post of life.
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:50 pm
It’s spelled Favre I know….typed too fast
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Favre wanted to play - for the Packers or the Vikings. Since that is impossible, and he did not want to be traded to anyone other than Minnesota, this is at least an awkward attempt by the Packers to keep Favre off of the field in 08 and keep him a Packer for life.
That goodness this is over. Favre’s autographed jersey hangs in my office and as a die-hard, season ticket holding Packer fan and Favre lover, I am pleased that this ends here (for now). By the middle of the season, this will be a distant memory - unless Aaron Rodgers gets hurt - and then - hey “something’s bound to happen”
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:53 pm
I think these “reports” are about as credible as the “reports” that Ted Thompson was begging Favre not to “get him fired.”
Did Murphy spend an entire day there just to offer Brett $20 mil to walk away? Please.
The Packers made an offer to Rob Davis to retire and be an assistant. He did so. Is that shameful? Edgar Bennett still works for the team, as an assistant coach.
Ron Wolf was on the payfoll for years as a consultant. He still may be.
Heck, Lindy Infante got paid for years after he was 5h!7canned.
Favre is now pretending to “consider” this offer, to promote the idea that the Packers are trying to bribe him.
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:55 pm
NNNoooooooo. Brett. The NFL will not be the same without you… Come Back
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:56 pm
There is no way Brett Favre is considering this. I would imagine this is more negative spin by the Packer organization. They got caught in their disgusting attempt at bribery and now they are trying to drag him into the muck with them.
Brett has made some mistakes here, but he has maintained one position since this all hit the fan at the beginning of July, I want to play football. The Packers have been playing this both ways the whole time, bullsh**ing the fans in Wisconsin about welcoming him back to camp in public and sending briefcases of money to keep him away in private.
Cut him, trade him or bring him back. But they should have been straight about this from the beginning. This back room garbage is not right.
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:57 pm
i was in the brett favre corner through this whole thing. but if favre signs this deal to stay out of football i will have no respect for him anymore. he said he wanted to play and many thought for the vikings. earlier there was reports that the packers were discussing trading him to the vikings. your a dumbass brett!! they were about to do what you want and then you cave and let them win! just think of how much of peoples time hes wasted. so through all of this the way it ends is favre saying,”you know what, i think i’ll stay retired. o yea, i’ll take millions of dollars along with me.” disgusting. way to cave in and let the packers win and waste everybodys time brett!!!!!
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:58 pm
In Soviet Russia, Favre pays Packers!
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August 1st, 2008 at 12:00 am
i never really liked favre as a player. Felt he was a solid QB that had some great teams, but would get nauseous with the media overkill.
This, if true, would pretty much push it into Hate territory.
I more or less hate brett favre right now and hope if he does come back that he fails miserably and is remembered for forcing himself down the packers’ throats only to prove them right.
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August 1st, 2008 at 12:01 am
Why is his legacy damaged? This is only a rumor on the rumor mill and every one is talking as if it is something he’s done. Rumors are just that.
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August 1st, 2008 at 12:02 am
Mike,
The rumor is that terms of the $20 million deal state that Favre can play wherever he wants, and when he’s done, he’ll serve as Packer Ambassador for a ten year term.
Apparently he’ll hang around Lambeau and apply the shock paddles to all the fans who suffer coronaries durin the game.
I’m kidding about the last part. I think.
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August 1st, 2008 at 12:03 am
I am a Brett Favre honk, but I have to admit that he (and that he has been a tool throughout this whole ordeal, but I started to side with him when the Uncle Theodore wouldn’t let him compete for the job. I was on his side even more when the Pack made the lame bribe. It never occured to me that he would take it. If he says “I don’t want your damn money, but you won’t let me go any where else” and stays retired.. that’s one thing.. If he takes the money, he is impossibly queer.
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August 1st, 2008 at 12:03 am
Give it some time… the only one who is going to look bad is Ted Thompson. The face of the NFL for the last decade wants to continue to play one more year for his Team, a team he himself put back on the map (they were absolutely done and left for dead in the 80’s), and Ted Thompson told him no. All the rest of it (trade to Minn, etc) was simply Favre trying to get back on the Pack. Yeah, Favre made plenty of mistakes here, but in the end it’s a terrible decision by Thompson which will become evident when Rodgers leaves yet another game with an injury in Week 3.
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August 1st, 2008 at 12:04 am
Florio, it’s a good thing you have no legacy because you would ruining it right now.
Before passing judgment on Favre for taking the deal, shouldn’t you verify that Favre took the deal first? How many false leads have you offered on this ridiculous saga? I would guess it’s a dozen or more. You think you’d learn to keep your “final judments” to yourself until you know the facts!
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August 1st, 2008 at 12:06 am
Uhhh, how exactly would this be damaging Farve’s legacy? If the idiot Packers are going to refuse to let him go and refuse to play him, what are his options? If he swallowed his pride and rode the bench for the rest of his contract just to make the money he’s owed, THAT would be embarrassing.
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August 1st, 2008 at 12:08 am
John Madden will pay Favre $20 million this year if he would just cruise around North America in the Madden Cruiser with him. Hey Brett, take some advise from Motley Crue, “Girl don’t go away mad, just go away!”
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August 1st, 2008 at 12:09 am
Hey Florio give yur head a shake
Why would he take 20 million “marketing” deal over 10 years when he can make 39 million over 3 years while his #4 is the best selling jersey in the NFL He’ll make 20 million on endorsement in 10 yrs anyways
” more damage to his legacy than any aging athlete” My god he was voted the MVP of the packers last year and the 6th ranked qb in the nfl
Its only guys like you that talk about damaging his legacy
When was the last time you and your wife ran steps in a stadium?
You couldn’t hold his jock strap
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