this guy hit the nail on the head

[twoseven]

Interesting, I thought SI writers were contractually obligated to love Brett?

No, thats FavreSPN, I mean ESPN.

They're currently working on ESPN 4, set to lauch September 2008.

[Stevogbfan]

Re: this guy hit the nail on the head

don't blam TT, he was just doing his job!

Is lying a required part of his job?

what job doesn't require a little lying every now and then

you think brett hasen't lied in all this...
i am officially retiring from the nfl & the green bay packers
it's been a great relationship with the packers
i hope they appropriate me as much as i do them
i don't want to play anymore
it's hard living up to being brett favre...

i could go on and on... just go watch the retirement speech again

so in answer to your question... yes, some lies are just bigger than others

[packinpatland]

well, no kidding. Most people around the country love Brett Favre, and they don't know the whole story of what went down.


Ask Packer fans "Should Brett Favre be guaranteed a starting position?", which is now the crux of the matter, and you will see a very different result.

No one knows the 'whole story'........which makes all this speculation worthless.

[packinpatland]

http://www.nfl.com/videos?videoId=09000d5d8095ffd2

(Vetrans discuss Favre)

Tim Brown says the Packers didn't want Brett there last year...........any truth to that?

[HarveyWallbangers]

Tim Brown says the Packers didn't want Brett there last year...........any truth to that?

I'm guessing he's speculating. The media is good at that.

[packinpatland]

Tim Brown says the Packers didn't want Brett there last year...........any truth to that?

I'm guessing he's speculating. The media is good at that.

Whatever happened to having to check and recheck, verify and reverify your sources before you print. Tim Brown (future HOFer) didn't say 'I think, or I heard, or someone said'..........he just plain said the Packers didn't want Brett there last year. So..............stop the presses......print it as fact.

[Bretsky]

Tim Brown says the Packers didn't want Brett there last year...........any truth to that?

I'm guessing he's speculating. The media is good at that.

Whatever happened to having to check and recheck, verify and reverify your sources before you print. Tim Brown (future HOFer) didn't say 'I think, or I heard, or someone said'..........he just plain said the Packers didn't want Brett there last year. So..............stop the presses......print it as fact.

Hey, we agree on something

[MJZiggy]

Welcome to 24/7 news. Gotta fill the airwaves and news pages with something--and gotta do it first--so when you can't find enough facts, you use "truthiness" instead. Thank you Steven Colbert.

I agree completely. They should rush to put it on the air, as soon as they verify it's a fact. Gotta love the phrase "an e-mail to the Packers was not returned."

[packinpatland]

Remember in that movie 'All the President's Men'........Bernstein and Woodward had to verify every single thing they wrote.......and the editor had to 'trust' that there really was a 'Deep Throat'.
Those days are gone.

[MJZiggy]

They're just gossipping like we are. They are just gossipping with "better sources"

[packinpatland]

They're just gossipping like we are. They are just gossipping with "better sources"

.........and getting published.

[Zool]

They're just gossipping like we are. They are just gossipping with "better sources"

.........and getting published.

And paid, and called an expert or analyst.

[MJZiggy]

Ok, so they've got a few perks. Doesn't mean they actually KNOW any more than we do...

[packinpatland]

That's pretty much what I said. Writers today just write, they don't verify anything as truth or fact before they write. Guess that would make some of them 'great writers of fiction'.