Favre has fewer friends in lockerroom

[packers11]

http://www.packersnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060808/PKR01/60808082/1989

kind of a sad article lol... I feel bad for him, let me be on the team, ill go out for a golf game

[GBRulz]

"I don't even have his number" (Rodgers says about Favre)

That's funny because remember that night my friend and I chatted with Aaron and a mutual friend of all of ours and I sent some of you pics from my camera phone? Anyhow, I rememer him telling us how he's talked to Brett quite a bit in the last month, blah blah blah. Oh well, not a big deal.

and by the way..if he considers his house small, I wonder if he would call what I live in, a garage? His house is probably 3500-4000', not exactly what I would call small!

[MadtownPacker]

Favre has fewer friends in lockerroom

By Rob Demovsky
rdemovsk@greenbaypressgazette.com

Last season, Craig Nall was there for hunting and Ryan Longwell for golfing.


Before them, guys like Doug Pederson and Billy Joe Tolliver were his sporting buddies. And before them, when his off-the-field activities were drinking and partying, Mark Chmura and Frank Winters were always up for a good time.

Brett Favre, the 36-year-old quarterback, has outlasted them all.
As he prepares for his 16th NFL season (15th with the Green Bay Packers), Favre has come to the realization that he is essentially without a close friend in the locker room. Gone are all of his buddies from the glory days, a fact that was reinforced this week when he sat alone at his locker for 10 minutes and not a single player came by to chat. The only person who bothered to stop by was a member of the equipment staff.

A few minutes later, Favre was asked a simple yet sad question: Does he have any friends left on this team?

“Not really,” Favre said. “No one I go play golf with or anything like that.”

It didn’t used to be that way. Last year, Favre and Nall went hunting whenever they had a day off. If it was golf Favre wanted, Longwell was game. During the summer of 2001, when Tolliver was in camp with the Packers, he and Favre escaped to the golf course at every opportunity.

“As I’ve gotten older,” Favre said, “I’ve become more a loner. I think I’ve played golf twice since January. When (Tolliver) was here, we’d play every day, every single day. The new (training camp) schedule has a little something to do with that, but I wouldn’t mind going out there and hitting some balls or something.”

Such is life when you’re the second-oldest player on the roster. Only long snapper Rob Davis, who is 37, is older than Favre. Of the 88 players currently on the Packers’ roster, 68 of them are at least 10 years younger than Favre.

“It’s different for me around here now,” Favre said. “At one time there was Frankie and Doug and Billy Joe and Ryan. We used to have good times. You look around and all of a sudden it’s like they’re gone. These guys here still do the same things I used to do. I just don’t know much about them. Me and Corey Williams went hunting a couple of times last year, but that’s about it.

“As you get older, some of the things you enjoy doing maybe you still do, but you do them on your own terms.”

Favre’s lack of a close friend on the team actually entered his mind when he was deciding whether to return or retire. During his period of indecision, he watched Nall sign with the Buffalo Bills and Longwell with the Minnesota Vikings.

“From an outsider’s perspective or a fan’s perspective or the organization’s perspective, they’d probably say, ‘What’s that got to do with anything?’” Favre said. “But I can’t expect them to see that from my perspective.”

If Favre has anything resembling friends on this team, he can count them on one hand. Receiver Donald Driver often attends Favre’s charity golf outing in Mississippi. Favre occasionally chats in the locker room with fullback William Henderson or Davis. During a minicamp this offseason, Favre and Davis could be heard chatting near Favre’s locker about digging ditches in the yard.

“Landscaping is kind of my hobby now, and those are the kinds of things us old folks talk about I guess,” Davis said. “But I don’t go out of my way (to talk to Favre) just because his friends left. I’ve had friends leave, too. Our talks aren’t choreographed. We’ve got a great working relationship. We’ve never gone out and broken bread or shared a beer or anything like that, but I think we’ve got mutual respect for each other.”

Players typically spend more time with their position group than with anyone else on the team, and the other three quarterbacks on the Packers’ roster are 22 years old (Aaron Rodgers), 23 (Ingle Martin) and 24 (Brian Wrobel).

“His daughter (Brittany) is almost 18, so I’m closer to her age than to his age,” Rodgers said. “But we still can have a good time and joke around.”

But for Rodgers, like almost everyone else on the team, it ends when they leave Lambeau Field.

“I don’t have his phone number,” Rodgers said. “Ours is strictly a working relationship and a very good one.”

Martin, a rookie who only met Favre for the first time about four months ago, asked Favre to go fishing on Sunday, the Packers’ most recent day off.

“I knew he probably wouldn’t go,” Martin said, “but I just asked him because he’s been around and I wondered if he knew of any good spots. I guess he’s not a big fisherman.”

So what will Favre do on his days off this season?

“We always used to do something,” Favre said. “I guess now I’ll just do it by myself.”

His wife, Deanna, and their daughter, Breleigh, 7, are scheduled to arrive in Green Bay later this month. Brittany once again will remain in Mississippi for school, where she is a senior in high school, while Breleigh will start second grade at Holy Family school.

“They’ll be here most of the season but like three or four times (Deanna) will go home,” Favre said. “We bought a little house not even a mile from (Lambeau Field). It’s small, kind of like where we used to live in Park Place. It’s just one story, right in the middle of a regular neighborhood, but I don’t go out much.”

[MJZiggy]

He's talking like an old hermit. I have a feeling that once he does retire, it really will be like he fell off the face of the planet.

[gbpackfan]

I'll be his friend.

[TPF]

Man, I feel kinda bad for him. Good that Ruvell made an attempt to be friends. I like that kid, I hope he makes the team.

[Rastak]

I'll be his friend.

I don't thing he's looking for that type of "friend".


J/K.....J/K......this place is kind of goofy tonight....(damn, I sound like Madden now.....)

[Deputy Nutz]

I see it more as Favre isolating himself from his younger teammates. I think it is natural.

I still don't see the big deal about him going up to Mark Tauscher, or Aaron Rodgers and asking if they wanna strike a couple of golf balls. They were both on that Golf Channel Challenge with him.

Shit drop me a line Brett, I will go kill some shit with ya, just as long as you don't invite that goddamn Bill Schroeder this time.

[Bretsky]

THIS IS KIND OF A BUMMER......BUT

If Favre shows enthusiam and a great will to win and makes an effort to be liked, the youth can also rally around him ......remember those last two frickin Elway years..........aka....EVERYBODY loved the guy and the win one for John rally was almost sickening.


B

[GrnBay007]

We can't have him getting all depressed. Nutz, loan him some of your prozac.

B - send him some grail pics.

[Bretsky]

We can't have him getting all depressed. Nutz, loan him some of your prozac.

B - send him some grail pics.

CAN I HOOK YOU AND DEANNA UP TOGETHER FOR HIM ?

COME ON 007, FOR THE GOOD OF THE TEAM

[GrnBay007]

I was hoping you would just suggest a lap dance


hehe, j/k

[Bretsky]

I was hoping you would just suggest a lap dance


hehe, j/k

Well sure if you're offerning freebies I'll take one too

[MJZiggy]

I'll be his friend. Does this mean I can hang out in the locker room?

[GrnBay007]

THIS IS KIND OF A BUMMER......BUT

If Favre shows enthusiam and a great will to win and makes an effort to be liked, the youth can also rally around him ......remember those last two frickin Elway years..........aka....EVERYBODY loved the guy and the win one for John rally was almost sickening.


B

I think you are right B, many of the young guys probably grew up watching Favre play and would love to see him go out (retire) after seeing him get to the Big Game again.