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Sterling Sharpe gets to be a host of the NBC SUnday pregam show (OK, hold back all your cheering). He also says that Favre is to blame for the Javon Walker 'defection.' For those interested in the truth, and not revisionist history (Where's Stalin when you need to erase Sharpe in a Troskyesque fashion??), all Favre said was that Javon had a point in wanting more money but that HE WAS GOING ABOUT IT IN THE WRONG WAY. Favre NEVER said Walker wasn't worth more money, he never said Walker SHOULDN'T get more money. In fact, he talked up Walker all the time and explicitly said that he SHOULD get more money. He just said that Walker SHOULD NOT HOLD OUT. PERIOD.
Sharpe's comments from Bob Wolfley's column:
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Sharpe, who played for the Packers for seven seasons (1988-'94), was asked what he thought of Javon Walker's departure from Green Bay, and of Walker's falling out with quarterback Brett Favre that hastened his departure.
"I've been resting since the Super Bowl, so there is not a lot of information I do have," Sharpe said. "Javon is one of my good friends. I'm sure I will get a chance to talk to him and have more information about that as the season approaches. I basically looked at it as Javon Walker's feelings were hurt by Brett Favre and those feelings could not be repaired."
When a reporter asked Sharpe if it was possible to have friends in the league and still offer opinions and commentary about them that is credible, Sharpe doubled back on the Walker vs. Favre issue.
"It's very easy, because I played in the National Football League," Sharpe said, referring to balancing the role of friend and commentator. "I have a very good idea of what's going on as far as the (league) is concerned. It's very easy for me to be friends with a guy and also say whether I like or dislike something he said or did. That's a very easy transition. We do that in our everyday lives as human beings with our friends.
"(I can) have Javon Walker as a friend and listen to his side of the story. Brett Favre is also a friend of mine. I don't know if he wants to give or to offer at any time his side of the story.
"The Green Bay Packers made the decision that the best direction for their football team was to go on without Javon Walker, whatever animosity or whatever feelings he may have had toward Brett Favre. Right, wrong or indifferent, it is the right decision for Javon Walker to be somewhere else. It is the right decision for Brett Favre to come back and play. It was right for the Green Bay Packers to proceed in a different direction. So I believe all of the parties concerned got their money's worth and got what they were looking for out of this deal."
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P.S. Blah, Blah Blah. I'm not tuning in Sundays until the kickoff.
Sharpe's comments from Bob Wolfley's column:
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Sharpe, who played for the Packers for seven seasons (1988-'94), was asked what he thought of Javon Walker's departure from Green Bay, and of Walker's falling out with quarterback Brett Favre that hastened his departure.
"I've been resting since the Super Bowl, so there is not a lot of information I do have," Sharpe said. "Javon is one of my good friends. I'm sure I will get a chance to talk to him and have more information about that as the season approaches. I basically looked at it as Javon Walker's feelings were hurt by Brett Favre and those feelings could not be repaired."
When a reporter asked Sharpe if it was possible to have friends in the league and still offer opinions and commentary about them that is credible, Sharpe doubled back on the Walker vs. Favre issue.
"It's very easy, because I played in the National Football League," Sharpe said, referring to balancing the role of friend and commentator. "I have a very good idea of what's going on as far as the (league) is concerned. It's very easy for me to be friends with a guy and also say whether I like or dislike something he said or did. That's a very easy transition. We do that in our everyday lives as human beings with our friends.
"(I can) have Javon Walker as a friend and listen to his side of the story. Brett Favre is also a friend of mine. I don't know if he wants to give or to offer at any time his side of the story.
"The Green Bay Packers made the decision that the best direction for their football team was to go on without Javon Walker, whatever animosity or whatever feelings he may have had toward Brett Favre. Right, wrong or indifferent, it is the right decision for Javon Walker to be somewhere else. It is the right decision for Brett Favre to come back and play. It was right for the Green Bay Packers to proceed in a different direction. So I believe all of the parties concerned got their money's worth and got what they were looking for out of this deal."
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P.S. Blah, Blah Blah. I'm not tuning in Sundays until the kickoff.
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