FAVRE TO RETIRE

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http://packers.com/breaking_news/

sad sad day.

[MTPackerfan]

No Way!!! I really didn't expect this

[KYPack]

From PFT...

FAVRE DONE?

Okay, we're a little leery right now because we swung and miss on this one back in 2006. But it looks a lot more official this time around.

A page on the Packers official web site announces that quarterback Brett Favre will retire. However, there's no mention of it on the front page of the team's official site.

So either it's accurate or the team has a dummy page ready in the event Favre quits or someone has hacked into the Packers' official site and posted a phony announcement.

Stay tuned.


Is it happening??????

[PackerBlues]

To all of you assholes that have been bitching for Favre to make an announcement: Happy now?

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Great News! Now we can go after those free agent QBs!!!!

[The Leaper]

I don't see anything anywhere else.

I would venture to guess CNN or ESPN could handle immediate announcements far more easily than Packers.com could.

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Here is the text from packers.com

"Packers GM Ted Thompson this afternoon held a brief press conference to address questions from the media regarding today's announcement.

Stay tuned to Packers.com for a complete transcript, audio and video of today's press conference."

seems odd. if there was a press conference wouldnt it be all over the news outlets. I am leaning towards pft's take that the page was set up in the event it did occur.

[MTPackerfan]

I checked ESPN's site and didn't see anything yet

[Lurker64]

Since there's no link to this story or mention of it on the Packers.com mainpage, I'm growing increasingly skeptical. You'd think they'd allow people to navigate to "Breaking News" from the main page.

It's also a less professional looking webpage (they actually include the link to who built it in the lower corner) and its lack of content is suspicious. You'd think that all the Green Bay news sources would have pages and pages and pages of stories to run in case Favre retires.

[PackerBlues]

Not seeing anything on any other site.......and not even on packers.com. If this is a joke, it is a good one.......... just not very funny!

[KYPack]

I think it's a phony.

Anybody that gets any confirm, post it, ya know?

(Like ya wouldn't anyhow!)

[MTPackerfan]

didn't see anything on JSOnline either.

[PackerBlues]

Damn it, I wasted a good hour writing a post bashing Thompson (mainly out of boredom ) that I just deleted because of this "breaking news". If this is fake..........

I hope it is.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Gotta be fake.

There isn't even a link from the News page.

[Lurker64]

Anybody want to call the Green Bay Packers to see if this is a hoax? They probably want to know that somebody is pretending to be them if it is.