Favre is comming back!!!

[jack's smirking revenge]

In absence of a definition for TC, I am going to slip into a Jack Daniels slumber and dream of super bowl trophies and TD records. And, hopefully, visions of sugar plums named Scarlett Johansen and Naomi Watts will dance in my head. Night all.

tyler

[No Mo Moss]

knew it.

[MadtownPacker]

No surprised other then it being announced before the draft. Maybe TT already has a teams to trade with?

OK so who gots a ticket for sale? How do I get to the stadium from Madison? I gonna stay at Harlan's house so if anyone wants to come over to get wasted and trash the place let me know.

[Tarlam!]

TC = Take Care...

[Rastak]

Just heard the news myself.....glad you guys are fired up! I wonder if Tex who insisted over and over that Favre had a secret deal with Green Bay which wouldn't be announced till after the draft will admit he himself is a dipshit now that the news is realeased BEFORE the draft. Anyway, it seemed Favre wanted to see some moves made and not too many were, ecspecially on the OL.
So basically some of the criteria he seemed to lay down wasn't real after all. I wonder why he needed to drag this out if none of it was real. I also wonder if you all get to go through the same stuff next year. Oh well, moot point, you get to watch him this year and the draft is this weekrend!

Time enough in January to worry about that crap.

[Rastak]

Lets face it. Brett Favre is already holding the Packer organization hostage. How can they possibly know how many reps to give ARod in training camp if they don't know whether or not he will be back next season. Damn this is getting sickening.

I don't think the Packers would have done anything differently whether they knew he was coming back or not. Had he waited until after the draft, then yes, I would think they might snag a QB 1st.

Talk about holding an organization hostage - look at what JW is doing.

If he said in January he was quiting you're telling me Thompson wouldn't have need to grab a vet QB as soon as free agency opened? Well, knowing Thompson, you could be right, he might have just drafted a rook as #2.

[Rastak]

From profootballtalk.com - (he thinks the Pack has outside shot at playoffs)


LORD FAVRE (YAWN) IS COMING BACK

ESPN's Chris Mortensen reports that Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre informed the team on Tuesday that he'll be returning for the 2006 season.

Anyone who has been coming to this site for the past month or so knows that this is old news. Indeed, we've just heard from our original source regarding the "Favre is returning" story that the more accurate characterization of the development is that Favre gave the team permission on Tuesday to announce publicly that which the organization already has known.

Though we never could quite figure out Favre's motivation for telling the team that he was coming back but not officially granting the team authority to say so, the simple reality could be that (as former teammate Mark Chmura suggested a few weeks back) Favre likes the attention.

And plenty of it he got.

At one point, we concluded that Favre's public questioning of the team's failure to make a splash in free agency was aimed at securing for himself a no-lose proposition in 2006. If the team sucks, he gets no blame. If the team is good, he gets all of the credit. So even though the chances of pulling an Elway are low, climbing back to the top of an undermanned NFC North could, given the low level of expectations, provide the same kind of feel-good final chapter to Favre's career.

Indeed, what has the team done since Favre's April 8 presser about nothing, where he called for the team to sign an impact free agent? Under his own stated reasoning, he rightly should have quit.

Frankly, we doubted our report that Favre was returning only once, in the wake of that press conference. But our source promptly informed us that the Packers had given the NFL specific assurances that Favre would be back before the NFL handed the team three prime time appearances in 2006.

And with the expectations now appropriately lowered in Green Bay, allow us to be the first to predict that the Packers won't be as bad as most pundits presume they will be. We'll predict at least a 9-7 record in Favre's final season, with an outside shot at a playoff berth.

[MJZiggy]

I was just at BF's website and they make us look like suicide risks. I think some of them might have actually begun levitating.

[Tarlam!]

I was just at BF's website and they make us look like suicide risks. I think some of them might have actually begun levitating.

Fing Funny, Zig!

[Scott Campbell]

Did Favre indicate that this is indeed his last year?

What if by some small miracle GB goes deep in the playoffs and could be an even better team in '07...think he comes back?

I can't go through another waiting game though !!

That's a question for another day. Or perhaps for another entire offseason. But today we've got him for another 16 games.

[mraynrand]

"But today we've got him for another 16 games."

Another optimist!

[MJZiggy]

Optimists exist. We had an Optimistic Realist thread on jso with a decent amount of members a while back. Who was all in that again?

[Scott Campbell]

"But today we've got him for another 16 games."

Another optimist!

An optomist might have said 19 games.

[Deputy Nutz]

Favre is back for 2006 and that will be it. So get out your cameras and get your TIVO and DVR ready, because this will be the last time you see him until Canton.

[MJZiggy]

From the Team:

Packers Pleased That Favre Is Returning

by Jeff Harding, Packers.com
posted 04/26/2006


Ending months of rampant media speculation, Packers quarterback Brett Favre Tuesday confirmed his intention to play for the team this year. Of course, as Favre himself would say, he never had said that he wasn't planning a return to the field.

"The Green Bay Packers are very pleased that Brett has come to this decision, and look forward to a successful 2006 season," said Ted Thompson, the team's executive vice president, general manager and director of football operations.

Favre, who enters his 15th season as the team's starting quarterback, looks to add to his consecutive regular-season starts streak of 221, an NFL record among quarterbacks. He also likely will have the opportunity to break several significant NFL passing records in 2006, including Dan Marino's all-time mark for career touchdown passes. With 396, Favre enters this year only 25 TD throws from surpassing Marino's total of 420; Favre has thrown for 25-or-more scores in four of the past five seasons.