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Old 07-30-2008, 09:16 PM   #1
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The Brett Farve debacle......

...I had to laugh when reading on Yahoo sports this AM that the NFL doesn't stand for National Favre League......

The president of the Packers was supposed to fly to MS to speak with Favre today about his options. I can't believe he would announce his retirement just to fax reinstatement papers today to the NFL Commissioner.

While I understand the love and passion for the game......dude, come on-hang up the cleats!!

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I totally agree with you.

DH and I actually both said, when we heard that Brett was intending to "unretire", that though we both had so much respect for him before he retired, we've lost total respect for him now.

I mean, the way he has kind of bashed on Green Bay after a hundred years of playing for them . . . he doesn't "feel welcome there"??!?! Well, come on Brett . . . you don't retire, then a couple of months later come back and say you want to come back to play but you want to play somewhere else and then expect everyone to welcome you back to the game with open arms.

I was kind of the same way with Michael Jordan and Roger Clemens the first time they retired.

Enough's enough. When you get to a certain point in your career, and you sit in the press conference and cry and say you "know it's time to hang 'em up", you just DO IT and slip quietly into retirement.


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I think he's really put GB between a rock and a hard place, and made himself look very selfish I too have lost respect for him, and no one is going to come out of this thing looking good
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Especially where he blew the game for them last year in the playoffs...I don't even mind if he plays again, but he should relize it will be for another team, I was guessing Tampa Bay though he seems to be against a trade to certain teams~~does he think they will send him to Minnesota?!
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to everyone's PP.

Getting tired of watching the Brett Favre Network. What used to be ESPN.

I don't think Tampa wants to give up a 2nd round draft pick or enough $$$ that will make the Packers and Brett happy.
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I lost all respect for him, too. He could've gone out looking much better than this
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You guys should live in WI. It's on ALL the news ALL the time. And everyone is talking about it. Training camp is going on, so the local news stations are out getting fan comments. It too much. Let me know what's going on once a decision is made. When the news broke that he faxed his papers in, one channel broke into primetime tv to report it.

Jason is a diehard Pack fan and he's very disappointed in how the entire things has been handled. They aired the entire retirement speech here live and we watched him cry and say goodbye. For him to come back six months later and wipe out everything he said then....what the heck? Fine, you miss football. I can get that. But to start all over again? And what will happen if he comes back for this year. The talk will start up again about retirement in Jan. Ugh. I think both sides have made some mistakes in handling this, both are at fault. I had to laugh when I heard him talking about how GB is "trying to protect his legacy" and to let himself worry about that. Well buddy, you're really doing a number on your legacy right now. You look like a schmuck.

I'm tuning everything out until a final decision's been made.
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He's put the Packers in an awful no win situation. They can't let him come to camp; that would kill Aaron Rodgers. And they sure can't release him so he can sign with the Vikings
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You guys should live in WI. It's on ALL the news ALL the time. And everyone is talking about it. Training camp is going on, so the local news stations are out getting fan comments. It too much. Let me know what's going on once a decision is made. When the news broke that he faxed his papers in, one channel broke into primetime tv to report it.

Jason is a diehard Pack fan and he's very disappointed in how the entire things has been handled. They aired the entire retirement speech here live and we watched him cry and say goodbye. For him to come back six months later and wipe out everything he said then....what the heck? Fine, you miss football. I think both sides have made some mistakes in handling this, both are at fault. I had to laugh when I heard him talking about how GB is "trying to protect his legacy" and to let himself worry about that. Well buddy, you're really doing a number on your legacy right now. You look like a schmuck.

I'm tuning everything out until a final decision's been made.

It is all getting to be a bit too much here in Packer land. I'm tired of everyone talking about it in the lunch room.
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Yep. Enough is enough. I turn on the news to hear just that -- the news. And all we get is Brett this and Packers that. Blah blah blah. Remember back in March when he said he wanted to come back? The team was all OK with it at that point, but he changed his mind. It's too late now.
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He's a clown.
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Should be interesting to see how . . . well . . . he's received when he gets there.
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I can't believe all the got was a conditional pick for him to the Jets. And i'm not sure what he is thinking now, they won't be getting past the Pats this season....
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