Broadway Brett Favre ...

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What size fur is Brett?
 
I am NOT happy with this or the Packers. I suppose my green "Favre 4 President" t-shirt, with no Packer logo, may still be applicable. Though I cannot root for the Jets, I will root for Favre and question my loyalty to the Packers. I still can't see Brett Favre in anything other than a Packer uniform. It's going to happen, and it is WRONG.

BTW, I've always thought Aaron Rodgers was a douchebag in college. I didn't like when the Pack drafted him because it was a bad fit, and no whiner as big as he was at Cal should be anointed to succeed someone like Brett Favre.

Yet another reason I really dislike NFL and just can't get so tied into it anymore. When the Oilers left, I was jaded. This is when my love for the Packers came about. I thought, "Here is a franchise that really cares what their fans think." Then Favre happened.

Then we get the Texans. Initially, I'm excited, but then they didn't draft VY. I'm sorry, I will never get over that. Too many aggies running the show there to think clearly. Never mind that was Bud Adams' final middle finger to Houston.

So basically, I'm already non-interested in the NFL for '08. I'll watch, but I no longer have a dog in the race except for Vince.
 
Steal by the Jets. If Brett has half the season he had last year it will be a major upgrade in QB for them.
 
He did, he went to the Jets.

This guy walks into a bar in NYC with a little dog under his arm. He puts the dog on top of the bar and the bartender walks over to tell him the dog has to go. Just as he is about to, the Jets kick a fieldgoal. The dog starts barking and doing flips, sommersaults and jumps. The bar erupts in laughter and cheers. The beer flows, the tips go into the jar.

The bartender buys a beer for the man, gives the dog some water and says the dog can stay.

Later on the Jets kick another field goal. All eyes are on the dog and he delivers again. Yipping, jumping, flipping. An eruption of jubilance goes over the bar. Beers pour, sales rung up, tips in jar. Another beer for the owner, more water for the dog.

The bartender asks, "Hey buddy, your dawg is awesome. What does he do when the Jets score a touchdown?"

"I don't know", says the man, "I have only had him for five years".

*rimshot*
 
Ding ding ding ding. Hulla's right: the honeymoon will be over in a New York minute once Favre throws one of his patented bonehead INTs into triple coverage to lose the game for the Jets and the NY media actually holds his feet to the fire, something which never happened in Wisconsin. Favre will still have Madden & ESPN to suck his cock indefinitely, but he'll be under an entirely different spotlight.

My question is this: how much of the Jets offense can he hope to learn in a month? They're not going to be able to run anything more than a condensed version of their playbook for a good part of the season, and who knows if Brett is going to commit to studying constantly to learn the whole thing.
 
Favre is a tool. Presumably he thought out his future before he retired this past March... specifically saying he felt he could still play the game but lost the passion for "practice."

Then, when football season approaches, (and he has received no offers to stay in the public limelight because he's a hillbillly from Miss), he comes out with.. "well.. maybe I want to come back now!"

The pack rightly say.. "uh.. Brett.. sorry, we've moved on."

So, he puts his fingers in his ears, holds his breath, stomps his feet, whines and says, "NO. .you have to take me back.. Oh.. and if you dont, then trade me to a division rival so I can play against you and the fans who adored me for a bazillion years twice a year!"

Then when the pack says, 'Go away boy.. here's 2.5 Million a year for 10 years to do nothin.. he thinks long and hard about it... the gerbil running around in his brain finally stops on the "Do Not Pass Go" sign, and he reasons, he's too stupid and inarticulate to have a color or announcing job, says, "No.. time to make a media circus out of this."

Hey Favre... you are NOT bigger than the game. Good luck with the NY press when they get a hold of you after you throw 20 INTs this year.

Tool.
 
Almost perfect summation, lidig8r, except for one key piece:

Thompson & the Pack were ready to take Favre back earlier in the spring when he first whispered that he wanted to play again. They said 'sure, Brett. We'll be right there. The jet's on the tarmac getting fueled up'. And in the 11th hour Brett called them back and said 'no, don't come. I'm serious this time. I don't want to play again. I'm going to stay retired.'

I give him until about week 6 before he's saying "I wish I hadn't abused all of those oxycotin pills in my younger days so my brain would have been functioning well enough last summer & I would've taken the $25 million to stay retired."
 
Favre's whining, snivling, bawling "retirement" press conference does NOT rank up there with...

(Lou Gehrig's farewell on the field):

"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.

"Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure, I'm lucky. Who wouldn't consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball's greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure, I'm lucky.

"When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift - that's something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies - that's something. When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something. When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

"So I close in saying that I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for."
 
Brett Favre has reached low levels of doucebaggery, and that is something I always thought was impossible.

This is HIS fault. Not GBs. He chose to take everyone on a dog and ponnie show, orchestrated by himself and himself ALONE. There was no reason for GB to take him back. They already had to form the mindset to move on the day he said he retired....He didn't say "hey, I am going to take (yet another) summer to think about it....HE OFFICIALLY RETIRED. If the dude wants to steal the spotlioght and come out of retirement, then trading his *** is the best thing for GB to do. Brett chose to tarnish his image, not GB.

And now we all have to sit, and deal with listening about this B.S. on a daily basis from every sports media outlet. I really am tired of this garbage being covered. It is flat out disappointing to see a legend act like a teenager. What did he actually expect would happen? The right thing has happened, in a situation that shouldn't have even presented itself in the first place.
 
Green Bay is as responsible as anyone. If you have a legend, you don't pressure him to make a decision (even if he is a bit of a prima donna). You certainly don't pressure him to make that decision because you're trying to keep Aaron freakin' Rodgers from leaving. Green Bay should have given Brett Favre every chance to come back. Brett Favre should have decided earlier. But organizational failure always is bigger than personal failure.
 
This is like a script for a movie about a sports hero who is loved by the whole country but loses all the goodwill built up over the years in pursuit of his own vanity.

He leaves the one team in the league owned by the local fans of a small town for the bright lights of the big city. The savvy media don't give him the same favorable coverage they used to give him, because the story has now changed.

If the story were to follow the movie script, Favre would deal with the enormous pressure by abusing pain killers again, leaving his wife, and shacking up with some gold-digging bimbo.

I bet Heather Mills is flying into New York this very second.
 
I think it's interesting that while most people on this thread have hostility towards Favre, Packers fans - such as myself - tend to blame the Packers more. Just an observation.
 
I have several Packer friends in MN and WI who share the exact same opinion as Bob in Houston's friend. One emailed me this morning saying he plans to buy a Favre Jets jersey just so he can burn it.
 
Well, I should clarify, that while I think the Packers have mishandled this situation badly, I think Favre has as well. Plenty of blame to go around, IMO. But I don't lay this totally at Favre's feet like a lot of people on here do.
 
Brett is acting like the guywho breaks up with his girlfriend. Then suddenly wants his girlfriend back when she starts dating another guy. He's a damn drama queen.

I really believe he thought he was bigger than the Packer team, and they would put his wants/needs above the franchise's.

If you wanted to play in GB this fall, YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE FREAKIN' RETIRED.

Good luck in NY, Brett.
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You know who I really feel sorry for in this situation, though, and I cannot believe I'm saying this? Aaron Rodgers. I hated him in college, of course, hated the draft pick because I thought it failed to address the Pack's immediate needs, even if it was a good value pick. But I really admire the way he has handled this situation. He has said/done all the right things.

But it would have been hard enough to follow Favre, anyway. Even if you have a pretty good career, its tough to replace a legend. Like Danny White replacing Staubach - all things considered, he was a pretty decent QB, but he took a lot of flak.

Now, unless he can take the Pack to a Super Bowl within the next 2 or 3 years, he will just be looked at as the guy that pushed Favre out of town and failed to meet expectations. It will be even worse if Favre does well for the Jets. Unless he turns in a spectacular career, a certain segment of the fanbase is probably always going to hate him, he's going to have Favre's shadow hanging over him, and maybe he'll never be a success in Green Bay. I hope that's not the case. But I'm afraid that just being pretty good is not going to be good enough.
 
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