Sorry if this has already been posted (new article)......Favre blames Rice for throw:
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Favre Speaks To Men's Health
By Bill Michaels
Portions of this stroy were reported by the AP, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Access Vikings and USA Today.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre tells Men's Journal magazine that playing another year "probably isn't going to make a difference" when it comes to his long-term health.
Favre tells the magazine that enough damage has already been done to his body. The issue comes out on Friday.
The Vikings are still waiting to learn whether Favre will return for a 20th NFL season. His agent, Bus Cook, tells The Associated Press in an e-mail that he has no update on Favre's status.
Favre is scheduled to appear at the ESPY Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Wednesday night. He has four nominations.
Star Tribune / USA Today -- Favre spoke of his final discussions with the Packers, prior to his trade to the Jets, "There was just silence. I said, 'Well, what are we gonna do?' They made it pretty clear I wasn't going to play there, and I said, 'How about the Vikings or even the Lions?' I wanted to stay in the same division. They said that wasn't going to happen, but maybe Tampa. I said, 'Fine, trade me to Tampa. I'll whip your asses in week four.' Maybe that was a mistake. I'm flying back to Hattiesburg thinking I'm going to the Bucs, and I get off the plane and Bus tell me I've been traded to the Jets. I said, 'Bull,' but they were smart; they released the news so I'd look like an ass if I backed out."
Access Vikings received an advanced copy (don’t worry, I’m sure I’ll get mine very soon) of Brett Favre’s interview in Men’s Health which will be released on Friday. Chip Scoggins’ snippets of the story are fairly revealing and have sold at least one more copy of Men’s Health (if they don’t get that advanced copy to me, that is).
The story includes a firsthand account of Favre’s agent Bus Cook going bonkers over the fact that Favre decided to tell ESPN’s Ed Werder about his ankle surgery. The story goes on to chronicle the phone call from the clueless Brad Childress inquiring about the surgery.
Favre also seems to still be smarting from the loss to the Saints in the NFC Championship Game, and speaks at length about the ill advised interception that ended the Vikings hopes of winning in regulation.
“The previous week against the Cowboys, we did the same exact play to Rice,” Favre told Rodrick. “We were up about 25 at the time, so it was different. He came back to me on a broken play, and we got 20 yards. This time, when I let it go, I’m thinking he’s going to come back to me. As he drifted farther and farther away, I could see the corner come in from the other side, and I’m thinking, Oh, sh-t.”
“As a player you’ve got to pull the trigger,” Favre added. “You can’t say, Well, is he going to do what I think he’s going to do? He wasn’t wrong, and in some ways, I wasn’t either.”
Favre was criticized for taking a gamble at such a crucial time. Rodrick wrote: “Some say it’s the Football Gods settling the score for his yearly tease.”
Responded Favre to the criticism: “They were the same people who said I’d suck all season. I don’t worry about that. A lot of plays go into a game; that was just one of them.”
However, Rodrick writes that Favre brought the subject up again a different day.
“Sometimes I say to myself, An interception? A whole year of making great decisions and it ends on an intercep*tion? You have got to be kidding me.”
The most touching quote (and, no, that isn’t sarcasm) comes when he speaks about what the 2010 season meant to him.
“I’ve had games when I almost threw seven picks,” Favre told Rodrick, laughing. “It was unreal. Before last year, I’d reached a point where I was sitting in meetings with guys 15 years younger than me thinking, What the hell am I doing here? Football became work. But last year it went back to being a game.”