Seriously, it is one thing to be that guy who holds on too long and eventually has to go play for the Chiefs or Tampa Bay, but what Brett Favre is doing is completely rediculous. If you retire, retire. If you want to keep playing, keep playing. But if you don't know what you want to do, wait until the off season is well underway before making an announcement. The number of athletes who retire after the season, but then after an offseason to recover and watching all the guys start to return to camp they can't stay away. I understand that it is tough to let go, I still play soccer and have been known to get in some verbal spats, but to flip flop so much is crazy.
The worst part of this whole thing is Favre has the potential to screw over the Packers for the forseeable future just one season after he made them into a young contender poised to be a great team for years to come. How? If he actually plays he will probably win the starting job, because right now he is actually the best QB. But next year he will really be done, and retire into the night and leave the Pack High and dry.
Aaron Rodgers is in he last year of his deal and the Packers will have to pay a pretty high price for a QB who has never played, or he will leave because he feels betrayed after all the false starting opportunities. They will go directly from having 2 good options to 0 good options and end up like the Bears.
Another possibility is that Favre and the Pack play so well that all the young talent have false numbers in another big year because of Favre's added production. So when he leaves and all those young players clamor for a big deal (I'm looking at you Ryan Grabt) the Packers will not be able to afford them and they will lose their new players.
I love Favre, but its time to move on, and every day this whole thing goes on he loses just a little more of his luster.
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flip,
were you drinking when you wrote this?
"rEdiculous"?
"Ryan Grabt"?
Here's to spell checking your tirades.
ps. I completely agree, and think that EA Sports should require every retailer of Madden 2009 to draw devil horns on him with a sharpie.
Well, Brett Fav-re is the Iron Horse of football, so I totally have to agree with you.
Aaron Rogers was one of the best quarterbacks coming out of a loaded draft class and fell to the Packers, and now the Packers might lose him without ever seeing him start.
PS - Eagle-Eye Edens (Anderson) spell-checked MY comment.
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