FAVRE TO RETIRE

[MadtownPacker]

Collapse - Did you get to see the page? What did it say?

[Collapse]

This is all part of TT's diabolical plan to nudge Favre out the door.

[KYPack]

Whoaa.

That was a rush for a second.

I wouldn't have cared if it was one of the crazy sites, but the Pack site?

That had me goin' for a minute.

When no other site had anything, ya know its a fubar.

[BF4MVP]

I saw it. It looked like a page from packers.com that said "breaking news: Favre to retire"..

[PackerBlues]

Well, sorry for calling you guys who wanted Favre to make an announcement "assholes". I really just think you guys are just butt holes!

I gotta go make a snack and think about weather or not I wanna go rewrite my Thompson bashing post.

If anyone manages to find out who was behind this hoax, let me know, I will go with ya to "chat with him". heh heh

[PlantPage55]

Here it is:

http://img171.imageshack.us/my.php?image=47327782wj6.jpg

[Lurker64]

I gotta go make a snack and think about weather or not I wanna go rewrite my Thompson bashing post.

I think after this traumatic experience it's time for solidarity, not something polarizing like "Let's fight about the GM again".

[PackerBlues]

I gotta go make a snack and think about weather or not I wanna go rewrite my Thompson bashing post.

I think after this traumatic experience it's time for solidarity, not something polarizing like "Let's fight about the GM again".

Yeah, it was not much of a Thompson bashing post, as much as it was a post about getting ahead of ourselves in our love for Thompson (JH). It was an excellent piece, lol.........shame that I deleted it when I read about Favre's retirement. I am sure that you all would have loved it.

Just don't have it in me to try to rewrite it though............

Maybe tomorrow.



Not looking forward to reading the real version of this story. At all !!!

[MadtownPacker]

Here it is:

http://img171.imageshack.us/my.php?i...7327782wj6.jpg

Oh shit. That looks, it looks fucking serious.

[Merlin]

Web pages take minutes to make and even less time to make public. I don't like the looks of it. The only saving grace may be that some one (outside the Packer's organization) placed that page in that directory. It wouldn't be hard to spoof any webpage. If it is a hoax then directory was probably public by mistake and is now, is no longer public.

I seriously doubt they had this "lying around". Unless of course their Web design team needs more then 5 minutes to get a page up. Favre retiring would come from the Packers and released by the Packers giving them ample time to create a page.

If it wasn't an outside job, then I would take it fairly seriously. Of course that is the whole question right now.

[PackerBlues]

OK, so where did you come up with the original link to the story Collapse?

there was no link to it from the main page......... so where did you get the link?

[MadtownPacker]

OK, so where did you come up with the original link to the story Collapse?

there was no link to it from the main page......... so where did you get the link?

If you read on the screenshot it looks like the main URL was getting redirected to this BREAKING NEWS page. So he hit it just by going to Packers.com.

[The Leaper]

It LOOKS serious...

What told me it wasn't was the blurb on the right side that said this "breaking news" page was REPLACING the regular packers.com home page. I immediately typed in packers.com and the regular home page was still there.

Clearly, this is the framework for the page they are putting together for when Favre eventually does retire. I'm actually quite glad that the page looks as sparse as it does...so the Packer website staff doesn't have any info that he is about to quit either. If Favre did retire, that ugly page would be a slap in the face to Packer fans if that was all packers.com offered on the subject. I'm assuming they have far grander plans for it...but just haven't gotten around to it yet.

[The Leaper]

OK, so where did you come up with the original link to the story Collapse?

there was no link to it from the main page......... so where did you get the link?

If you read on the screenshot it looks like the main URL was getting redirected to this BREAKING NEWS page. So he hit it just by going to Packers.com.

No...going to packers.com DID NOT redirect you to this page today, although by the looks of it that is what the Packers were planning to do when Favre does hang them up.

I'm assuming Collapse got the info from PFT.

[GrnBay007]

What is going on???

This is crazy.

Is there a press conference this afternoon?