JAY GLAZER reports FAVRE is DONE

[packinpatland]

I had planned on working today while listening to CNN with the primary results as 'background' noise. Instead I find myself flicking from one sports channel to another.
We were fortunate fans. We got to 'know' our QB, in a personal way. For me, maybe that's a part to why this hurts . He made the game fun, he made the press conferences fun, his golf tournaments, his baseball games......goes on and on. As fans of the Packers, of Favre, he made US special. The likes of someone like him won't come around again for a very long time, if ever.

[Freak Out]

I know its true now......I just heard it on NPR.

[The Leaper]

The mental part of the game became too difficult?

Again...crock of shit, Brett.

Don't tell me you can't handle film study and a little extra mental prep a couple months out of the year. It makes you look like a pussy. You aren't a nuclear scientist...you are a football player.

I would think the aches and pains physically would affect you far more than having to actually WORK a little with the grey matter between your ears for that $10M paycheck.

[Rastak]

Hope pulls a Reggie White, although in the same season with the same team.

You are hoping he signs with Carolina this season?

[Deputy Nutz]

I had planned on working today while listening to CNN with the primary results as 'background' noise. Instead I find myself flicking from one sports channel to another.
We were fortunate fans. We got to 'know' our QB, in a personal way. For me, maybe that's a part to why this hurts . He made the game fun, he made the press conferences fun, his golf tournaments, his baseball games......goes on and on. As fans of the Packers, of Favre, he made US special. The likes of someone like him won't come around again for a very long time, if ever.

What do you mean? Aaron Rodgers will be the next big thing! Favre who?

[sepporepi]

I think this puts things in perpective: (packers,com)

Where Were They Then?: Sept. 1992 Was A Long Time Ago

Aaron Rodgers - The heir apparent was an 8-year-old growing up in Chico, Calif.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Hope pulls a Reggie White, although in the same season with the same team.

You are hoping he signs with Carolina this season?

He said in the same season with the same team.

[Merlin]

On a side note for all of you Aaron Rodgers lovers, you get your wish to "usher in" a new era. A quarterback who has never had any competition for his position in the NFL just got handed the reigns of the most storied franchise in the NFL. So here's to an era of a young team carrying a QB who should know the role inside and out but of course doesn't. If Ted Thompson comes out and says he has faith in Aaron Rodgers and doesn't pick up any competition for the QB position, I want his head on a platter.

Gimme a break. First of all, the greatest QB in the history of the game just retires from our team and this is the almost immediate response. Why use now to take cheap shots at Rodgers and TT? TT has brought this team back to respectability. It was much more than Favre, no matter how great he was. So TT deserves more respect than that.

I just spoke with someone who met Aaron Rodgers in Las Vegas recently and he had two things to say 1) Rodgers worships Favre, 2) Rodgers is a cocky son of a bitch.

How is this a surprise then? Favre is a cocky SOB. If Rodgers worships him and has been playing with him for three seasons, he probably has picked up on some of the same mannerisms.

This is nothing new about Rodgers. And since when is stating facts about our new starting GB "taking shots". Thompson has not brought in any competition since he was his very first draft choice for the Packers. You do not start someone who has never had any competition at the NFL level. Don't even start to turn this thread into a Thompson argument. There is no argument, Favre retired, this is our reality, deal with it or leave.

Listen you fucking dumb ass. I have bolded the opinions in your post. Are you blinded by your hatred of TT and your continual attacks on him that you lost the reality of yourself? Opinion and fact sort of blend in the muddled brain of yours?

Pull your fucking head out of your ass already you condescending bastard.

Once again, someone who can't back up their argument with anything, not even a lie, making things up, name calling and hate speech. Zool, this is the shit I live for, you morons proving the point.

[Deputy Nutz]

I think this puts things in perpective: (packers,com)

Where Were They Then?: Sept. 1992 Was A Long Time Ago

Aaron Rodgers - The heir apparent was an 8-year-old growing up in Chico, Calif.

Damn I am older than the Packers starting Quarterback for the first time in my life.

[Fritz]

Come on, you guys who feel sure Brett felt unloved and that's why he's leaving, does that really sound like a Brett Favre comment? Of course not, even if he FELT it he would never say it, so let's get real.
It was reported on ESPN this morning that he'd said he knew he could still
play, physically, but it was the mental aspect of it that gets to him. Somebody on here said that just last week, that was much more likely.
The practices, the training, the constant getting ready when it was the game itself that he loved.

He's going to be on ESPN sometime over or right after the noonhour today so might do us well to catch that and hear him.

Funny, I was so sure weeks, months ago that when this day came I'd be
bawling my eyes out worrying over missing Brett and what do we do now? But it hasn't happened - yet. Maybe it needs to sink in more. One thing keeps being mentioned on TV right now is that everyone - including Brett himself - will remember his last play in the Giants game, the interception. It can't be helped, it is what it is.

What? What last play?

[cpk1994]

Re: Favre

But the way this is coming down really, really sucks.

I totally agree with your whole post, Fritz.

But I'm going to look at it this way. The way it goes down is up to us. I am still not a TT fan per se, but this all has nothing to do with TT or Moss or anything else than a 17-year veteran -- one of the best the league has ever known -- earning his right to call it quits.

This saga is doing nothing to change Favre's legacy for me. Today's BS only matters if you let it.

Well put. It's a non-factor. This was/is to important a choice by Brett for me to believe anything so trivial would matter.

Yeah, I know, I know. But I do think the media - which in a sense includes us, I suppose - really "spins" stories, and this is good media - ratings are better if a controversy over such a seemingly simple story about retirement can be generated.

I very much like Brett Favre, and that's partly why I'm bummed about how this is happening. I think he had it in his power to make this happen in a way that could (nearly) assure everyone that he's ready to retire, that all are on good terms, that it's been great, and so on. And if that's not in fact the case, he also has the power to come out and say so himself, if he so desires. But to have Bus Cook speaking for him and intimating what he has - ugh. Makes me almost sick.

But I'll try to buck up, FavreChild. I will.

The thing is though, MOrt is the only one harping on the Moss aspect. Everybgody else who has talked on ESPN isn't buying Mort's report.

[PaCkFan_n_MD]

Basically it was the studying that became to much according to Favre. He said every week it became to much as the season went on and he said he found himself trying to always top the previous weeks preformance.

[Rastak]

Hope pulls a Reggie White, although in the same season with the same team.

You are hoping he signs with Carolina this season?

He said in the same season with the same team.

I read it as the same team Reggie signed with......


(I should know better than to make a joke).

[Merlin]

For you hangers on and conspiracy theory buffs, Thompson does say "intention to retire" in his statement.

I saw that too but you know all I do is "stir the pot" so I thought I would wait until someone else noticed it wasn't a definitive statement.

[Merlin]

Hope pulls a Reggie White, although in the same season with the same team.

You are hoping he signs with Carolina this season?

He said in the same season with the same team.

I read it as the same team Reggie signed with......


(I should know better than to make a joke).

Meh, doesn't matter to me. Isn't what I meant but oh well, at least Favre would be playing somewhere and give us another team to watch besides the PAckers!