OFFICIAL FAVRE WATCH: DECISION DAY/NEWS/FINALE/PREVIEW

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PREVIEW

FORTHCOMING: TOP HAT'S EDITORIAL ABOUT BF'S PERSPECTIVE & THE PREDICTION



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[GrnBay007]

Re: PREVIEW

FORTHCOMING: TOP HAT'S EDITORIAL ABOUT BF'S PERSPECTIVE & THE PREDICTION



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......waiting.

[TopHat]

GREAT TRIBUTES: FANS WORLDWIDE

Brett must return. I am a huge cheese-head despite living in Chicago. I even get mad every time anyone says that Rex is like Brett, he's not. Brett is the greatest to ever play the game and I would love to see him for one more year. The NFL isn't ready for the retirement of Farve.

Brett Favre is the reason I have such a passion for football! There is not anyone else in the game with his skill, passion, and incredible sportsmanship! Please come back more year so that I can realize my dream and travel from California to see you play in Lambeau!

Brett, As a lifelong Packer fan, it has been an honor to watch you play. I have been blessed to see you play in person in Minneapolis, my hometown. There has never been and will never be another Brett Favre! You are more than just a hero to Packer fans; you are a hero to NFL fans! You have proven time and again that you are still one of the best in the game. I will admit that I am not ready to watch the Green Bay Packers without #4! Please Brett...just one more year!

Hey Brett! Please come back. I want to say that I've always been a Packers fan before a Bengalis fan living in Dayton, Ohio. Please come back to create more memories for us fans. Ask A.J. Hawk about the Centerville Elks. That's were Scott Harper cut his football teeth too. It is fate Brett. You are to keep playing with Centerville Elk football players. It is all connected like that. See ya this upcoming season in the Super Bowl baby!

Brett, You are the best ever to play at the position of QB. You will make me along with all other Packer and Brett Favre fans the happiest people around when you come back and play some more football. You easily have at least 3 more years of football in you. You know you want to come back. Be a little selfish and just tell your family your coming back to play a few more years and make the Packer nation happy. SO COME BACK AND PLAY TO YOUR HEART'S CONTENT. The team is almost there and will bring you another Super Bowl victory. Brett, COME BACK!

I do not request that Brett play one more year. I request that he play two if his health keeps up. I know it is a drain on your family, but life is short, and you will regret what you left on the field. I watch every game, and I have not seen a drop of in arm strength, managing the game, or mobility. Don't come back because everybody loves you, come back because you play and manage the game at a high level, and you still love to play. Note: The preparation and practice is a piece of cake.

There never has been and probably never will be another personality in not only the NFL but in all of sports that can ever match or even compare to the likes of Brett Favre. He has altered our perception of the number "4" forever. It is his combination of sincere love for the game, genuine leadership abilities, uncanny ability to improvise and his down-home "guy next door" personality that has endeared us to him. His appeal is more universal than any other player that we in Green Bay or anyone in the sports world has ever known. If ever there was one person in the world more perfect than Brett Favre for Green Bay we have yet to find him. A match made in heaven. Brett, I hope you understand that our desire to have you return is not because we do not know how to let go. Seeing you leave one day will break our collective hearts but our desire to have you return is because we believe in you as much now as ever. Maybe more. We see clearly how you were and still are the best hope the Packers have of being the best they can be. The last four games of the season showed a lot of potential in this tram and a lot of growth. Please come back and let yourself experience the joys and thrills of gracing the gridirons once again. I have always said that you alone are worth the price of admission (and then some) win or lose. It is the fact that every moment you spend on the field is about giving your teammates and the fans every possible chance to feel the elation of victory. We understand that even if an errant pass is intercepted that you were making every attempt to make something happen. We accept the fact that there were ups and downs but are not ready to accept you leaving when we are certain you have so much left in you to bring yourself and the world the joys of playing the game.

We are Packers fans living in hostile Viking country. You are our shining light in this dark void of football mediocrity. My husband and I have been Packers fans our whole lives and cannot even imagine what our beloved team would be like without you. I know that eventually you will be gone but PLEASE come back this year. You are still one of the best in the game and even some of our Viking fan friends would be sad if you left. You are what the game of football is supposed to be. If you decide to retire we will surely understand and thank you for all of the exciting, wonderful memories you have given us over the years. There will never be another number 4. You're the greatest!!!!!

have been watching you play since I was a little girl, Brett. I pray all the time that you'll be back one more year. We would all love for you to be able to play for the rest of your life, but if one more year is what we can get, we'll take it! I would love to see my packers get into the super bowl one more time with you leading them there. You'll always be my #4.

We all saw how well the team came together at the end of the year, and believe it could be the start of something special. As great as it would be for your legacy to go out whopping the sh*t out of the Bears, it would be that much better to do it whopping the sh*t out of the unfortunate AFC representative sent to Arizona for Super Bowl XLII.

Brett Favre is the best quarterback ever to step on the NFL field, but he is so much more than that. His amazing physical, mental, and emotional toughness is known worldwide, and he is the epitome of class. I am lucky enough to be able to watch this history in the making from his humble beginnings to the end of his glorious reign. I grew up watching and depending on Favre and I will never be able to watch another Packer game the same once he's gone. I feel honored that our small and storied city has yet another claim to NFL fame and I will be sitting in a rocker when I am old and gray telling my grandchildren about how I actually lived during the golden era of the mighty Brett Favre. His love for the game is so deep, and the fans, me included, return that love tenfold. Thank you for everything you've done not only on the field, but off the field and as a role model for anyone looking for strength. Although I never want to see you go, one more year with Favre will be one more year with not just the greatest quarterback ever to live, but one of the strongest people all around. Brett Lorenzo Favre, you are the man.

Brett, I live in Western PA. I've been a Packer fan since the 60's. Even the hard core Stealer fans that I'm surrounded by unanimously agree, if you love football-you have to love to watch Favre play. YOU SHOW THE HEART & SOUL OF THE NFL & THE USA--PLEASE DON'T RETIRE YET!

Brett, I finally got to see you play at Lambeau this year live. Thankfully it was Arizona so I witnessed your ONLY Lambeau Leap (so far). The team improved so much from September to December, imagine what they can do behind you next year. I would love nothing more than to see you in the playoffs one last time with a supporting cast that can go the distance. Please consider this carefully (and I know you are) because retirement is forever (unless you're MJ of course.

Dear Brett, you are the reason that made me find ways over here in Europe to find a way to watch every Packers game broadcasted. For evening games I get up at 2 AM to watch the Pack live only because I know you will make it worth the effort by being such a competitor. I do hope you come back because you are playing at a high level + the young team improves constantly. I am certain, next season the PACK will be even better and make the postseason and once you're in there anything is possible. So why would you want to retire? You love to play the game, your team is a playoff contender and you are the factor that makes this team even better. Please return for at least 1 more season.

Brett please don't go! You made the game amazing and still do to this day. I was watching the day when the magic man went down and you came in. I didn’t know what to expect but saw something that to this day I still see in your eyes. What I saw is love and commitment; no one else is around that you see that in them. I was there when we were in the dark ages and light seeing ages please continue the light and do not leave us when we need you the most. And to all the fans I believe if we do lose him to retirement we won’t be in the dark ages because of a new person I believe we will get in the next 12 months after a super bowl win.

Brett inspires all us "weekend warrior" athletes to continue to make the most of what we have, to be our best doing what we most love. Besides, it makes good business sense for the record books to have a Packer name at the top, and not the name of a player from Miami.
We have watched you grow up from a kid to a wonderful man and terrific football player. You have looked life's adversity in the eye and have conquered all. We definitely want you back for not just one more year, but for as many as you choose.

Please don't retire yet. I speak for my 6 sisters who feel the same way I do. I also have a football I really would like you to autograph for me.

We believe the team needs you and your fans want you to help the team. The last 4 games show there is progress, but it's not totally there. You can help them get a positive winning year. I love the comradeship you have with Driver. I admire his work ethics and tenacity. You two are like brothers working toward the same goal! Take that 2 ways.


I have watched football since I was a kid. I remember the 1st game I saw was the game and Bart star was trying to get into the end zone on a cold day. My father was new here from Puerto Rico and could barely speak English. But what brought me to the t.v. was him screaming at the with his brothers having some beers and watching the game. Bart Starr kept trying to get into the end zone and when he did my father and uncles jumped up and started screaming and cheering. the green bay packers won the super bowl. I could barely speak English but still loved the game. That's how I became a packer fan, dedicated to green bay all these years from hadl, to dickey, to wright, to majik, and then you came brett. I watched all those years hoping to see green bay win another super bowl. And you did that for me and millions other. I see you dedicated to playing the game as I am watching it .in all my years I have never seen any football player play the game with as much love and compassion for the game, team, and the win. Win or lose I saw your emotions happy or sad and I felt it too. Whether you go out blazing in your career or not, thank you for coming to green bay and making my football fan dream come true. Win or lose, packer fan for life. We love you brett favre. Come back one more year or two.

[OS PA]

Anybody think that Brett liked what he saw in todays games? Seeing the Bears go to the Superbowl after we beat them? Gotta give you a little bit of hope for the future.

[woodbuck27]

I cannot give a better fan testimony to Brett Favre than the one I just read written by TOP HAT. That was a very honest piece of writing and taken out of the heart of a true Brett Favre fan. It was beautiful.

I have loved the Packers for almost 5 decades.I recall the start of the Vince Lombardi era and that awesome 60's team; the first two Super Bowls and then the long long wait for the Wolf-Holmgren-Favre and Reggie White and Company connection.

I cannot properly put into words the way I feel abouit Brett Favre and what he means to me. I can only express this. Favre is without any doubt the finest PRO athlete ALL Round that I have ever experienced as a fan.To say that Brett Favre is the face of the Green Bay Packers doesn't cut it.

Fans will say that the Packers will survive Favre's retirement, but it's my feeling that we will never see (slash) feel a player in the Green and Gold that will rival all that he is.

I'm not ready to learn of his retirement. It's not the time for Favre to retire. That flat out mustn't happen.

If Brett retires it will be terrible for me as a fan, that see's and feels what TOP HAT expresses about Favre. Favre is very special as an NFL Icon, but it's his humanity and desire to win that has set him above ALL great players in any PRO Sport, in my 5 decades of being a sports fan.

Favre brings the human aspect to us. He's emotional, yet sensitive and careful and generally optimistic in his approach to playing for OUR team game to game and into every minute of every game. It really sucks to me that he wasn't surrounded with the talent he needed to win more. I can't understand a GM with a. . . well we did pretty good attitude and approach to organizing a team, from a perspective of coaching and personnel.

Winning is all that matters and to have the gift of a winner like Favre and not support that is just ugly.

Maybe he'll get it Brett. Just give him two more years to get there PLEASE.

GO PACK GO !

[GrnBay007]

Anybody think that Brett liked what he saw in todays games? Seeing the Bears go to the Superbowl after we beat them? Gotta give you a little bit of hope for the future.

The same thought crossed my mind OS PA. We can hope!

In fact, I said that to a bear fan today at work and they rolled their eyes....typical bear fan reaction. :P

[b bulldog]

The frightening thing is that next year they will have Brown and Harris back but hopefully they will lose briggs.

[TopHat]

WELL SAID

I cannot give a better fan testimony to Brett Favre than the one I just read written by TOP HAT. That was a very honest piece of writing and taken out of the heart of a true Brett Favre fan. It was beautiful.

I have loved the Packers for almost 5 decades.I recall the start of the Vince Lombardi era and that awesome 60's team; the first two Super Bowls and then the long long wait for the Wolf-Holmgren-Favre and Reggie White and Company connection.

I cannot properly put into words the way I feel abouit Brett Favre and what he means to me. I can only express this. Favre is without any doubt the finest PRO athlete ALL Round that I have ever experienced as a fan.To say that Brett Favre is the face of the Green Bay Packers doesn't cut it.

Fans will say that the Packers will survive Favre's retirement, but it's my feeling that we will never see (slash) feel a player in the Green and Gold that will rival all that he is.

I'm not ready to learn of his retirement. It's not the time for Favre to retire. That flat out mustn't happen.

If Brett retires it will be terrible for me as a fan, that see's and feels what TOP HAT expresses about Favre. Favre is very special as an NFL Icon, but it's his humanity and desire to win that has set him above ALL great players in any PRO Sport, in my 5 decades of being a sports fan.

Favre brings the human aspect to us. He's emotional, yet sensitive and careful and generally optimistic in his approach to playing for OUR team game to game and into every minute of every game. It really sucks to me that he wasn't surrounded with the talent he needed to win more. I can't understand a GM with a. . . well we did pretty good attitude and approach to organizing a team, from a perspective of coaching and personnel.

Winning is all that matters and to have the gift of a winner like Favre and not support that is just ugly.

Maybe he'll get it Brett. Just give him two more years to get there PLEASE.

GO PACK GO !

TOP HAT'S NOTE: YUP, 30 YEARS LATER...DUE TO HOF BF AND SUPPORTING CAST.

[TopHat]

PRESUPER BOWL RUMOR/PACKERS NEWS PREDICTION

GrnBay007, Bretsky, Madtownpacker,MJZiggy, Fritz, Motife, Woodbuck27, GBRulz, Partial, Red, OS PA, Bulldog,,...everybody:

1. http://cf.wisinfo.com/Packers_Chat/o...q_a_012207.cfm

Pete Dougherty: "My gut feeling is that he'll come back for another year. Just a guy feeling, kind of based on what Harlan has said but more so on observing Favre all these years. When I saw that post-game interview on the field at Chicago, I thought, that's it, he's quitting. But after thinking about it talking with people, I remembered that he is an emotional guy and has a flare for the dramatic. This is all just a guess, though."

2. From an anonymous source, "I heard from a player who is represented by the same agent as Brett that he will sign a 2 year extension shortly."

[MJZiggy]

But Brett's under contract until 2011...

[OKC PackerFan]

Isn't Moss represented by Bus Cook?

[Murphy37]

But Brett's under contract until 2011...

Brett's gonna play till 2013? Kick ass! This is great news! Wait a minute..........yeah what the hell.................this is great news!

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NEWS

EDITED.

[Murphy37]

Update
On what was supposed to be day 27 of Brett Favre taking Prilosec, he forgot to take it. Unfortunately on this same day he got into some bad Mexican food and threw his back out while passing gas. It's not looking good for 2007.

[red]

an extention could be a way to lower bretts cap number for the next year or 2