I just heard on a local sports talk radio station that there are some strong rumors coming from connected people in Green Bay that Brett Favre is going to announce his retirement this afternoon. I know it sounds extremely dubious but it also sounds like it’s coming from some pretty inside sources.
I have a hard time believing it will actually happen but Favre can be a flakey guy and after that day he had yesterday, he just may not feel like it’s worth it to put himself and his team through another lousy season.
Anyway, just in case it happens, you heard it here first.
I predicted it after watching the game yesterday. I’m VERY interested to see how this plays out. If it’s true, I’m sure Pete the maintenance guy will need some time off to grieve.
Whoa, I have heard nothing of this. It seems very un-Favre-like to me. If he had been sacked a dozen times yesterday maybe I could see him concerned about his health, but he does not back away from challenges and this season will be an incredible challenge.
Oh no, please, in the name of all that is good and right, no.
The last thing we need is more Favre knob-slobber fodder for Madden and the like. If he we’re to retire today, then the entire commentary during next week’s Sunday night game would be about how Favre went out playing the greatest losing end of a shutout ever played.
From one perspective, I want Favre to keep playing as long as possible. I contend that every game he plays sets the Packers rebuilding process back two. Seeing them flounder with him at the helm is like a giant 4 hour orgasm every Sunday.
On the flipside, living with the knowledge that the Bears drove him out of the league on the heels of a shutout, and ass whopping, in Lambeau would keep me warm for many a night. It would likely be the ultimate trump card in all bouts of trash talk with bandwagon Cheeseheads.
So, it’s tough to say what I hope the outcome is here. There’s just so much to like about this situation.
I want him to stay around through the end of this season (and our last regular season game) so we can hit them up again later this year. Plus Brett is only 20 interceptions away from George Blanda’s all time record, and I really want to see that milestone. Sadly, at this rate it could come next week, but hey, that’ll be good enough.
Someone running a blog out of your neck of the woods reported a similar story a couple of weeks ago and it was false then too. This is probably just another goofball trying to get his name out there.
I doubt it’s true, he’s got too much pride to up and quit without some medical condition to play on. Unless you consider ‘old-ass’ a medical condition. Or ‘interception elbow’.
this doesn’t sound right, if only for the fact that today is a pretty significant day and knowing Favre’s persona, he’d probably wait until tomorrow at least.
Plus it’s a busy sports day, two MNF games… tomorrow is better.
I know he’s had a lot of personal problems (his wife has cancer, I think his family home was affected by Katrina, and either his mom or dad died recently - right?) but this is a pretty weak ending to a career that started horribly, went fantastic for a few years, and seems to be heading back to the pits.
Favre as Hamlet isn’t working either. Should have retired this off-season, or gone the Joe Montana route and hopped over to another team for the twilight of his career. (I heard rumors that if he was available, Dan Snyder would come calling. That would pretty much qualify as the dumbest thing he’s done as owner; he’s actually doing a good job of atoning for the Deon Sanders-type wheeling-dealing when he first bought the team. Leave it to Jerry Jones.)
I heard a tiny bit more info from the same place as before. It came from a local Minneapolis sports guy named Mark Rosen who covers the Vikings for the CBS affiliate in the Twin Cities. He broke into a local sports talk station called KFAN with his maybe scoop. He’s working at the Redskins-Vikings game tonight in DC and he said he heard it from a couple of national network guys who were busy checking the story out and told him “it has teeth.” Rosen claims the guys he heard it from usually don’t throw out BS rumors and that they’re pretty reliable.
That’s all I know so far. There’s been absolutely nothing anywhere else in the media that I can tell. It sure doesn’t look like anything is going to happen today. It makes me wonder if Brett was making noises about quitting and maybe some coaches and Packers execs had to hole up in a room with him and have a talk with him (there are other unconfirmed rumors that the Packers were thinking of benching him for Aaron Rodgers and that’s a situation where I can see Favre saying he’d rather walk than be a backup).
Oh, well, if it turns out to be nothing then it so be it.
Now someone else is saying the rumor is all over the place among the press guys at this Vikings game. We’ll see.
Rosen is kind of back-pedalling off of it now. Says he heard it from “a high ranking ESPN executive,” but now is saying “it looks like nothing is going to come of it.”
I still wouldn’t be surprised if the rumor started because someone overheard something Favre may have said in rant mode and took it too seriously.
As a Vikings fan. it’s fine with me if Favre stays around. If he’s going to keep throwing around the kind of garbage he threw yesterday that’s going to mean a lot of us picks for the Purple.
Exactly what kind of a total, complete asshole retires after a bad opening day? Has anything resembling this scenario ever actually happened? I can’t remember any analogous situations, but if there were any, I’m sure the retiring athlete was utterly reviled for wussing out and leavng his teammates high and dry.
The Packers would drag Favre from his press conference in mid-sentence and kick his ass through the goalposts at Lambeau Field if he were to try pulling this stunt.
I’d like him to stick around long enough to keep playing this badly and force the Peckers* to bench him so they can finally get a youngster some playing time. Then, perhaps a mild hamstring strain to the starter on 12/30, so Brettsy has to start one last game against the Bears and get picked off four more times, THEN go out and announce his retirement from the locker room with an ice bag on his head.
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No, not a typo, I swear that’s what they were called in my house, and I only found out their real name when I was 10 and got in trouble for saying it in school.
Gee, there seems to be a bit of an undercurrent of resentment from the Bears’ fans. I guess because Favre owned your team for 14 years to the point where most Packer fans didn’t really even consider it a rivalry anymore.
It’s one game fellas, don’t order your Super Bowl tickets just yet.
I’m VERY interested to see how this plays out. If it’s true, I’m sure Pete the maintenance guy will need some time off to grieve.
