Hey, did you hear the latest on Brett Favre? No?!
Well apparently his family booked hotel rooms for the same weekend that the Vikings are in Green Bay to play the Packers next season. So you know what that means right?!
Absolutely nothing. Or maybe it means he’s going to sign with the Vikings. Or maybe he’s going to return to the Packers. Or maybe his family is just outright f’ing with us and decided to book a bunch of hotel rooms for that weekend just for the sheer joy of watching writers everywhere scramble to their computers believing they have the mother of all stories, when in fact they have something about as useful as Jose Canseco without steroids. (And if that’s the case then – touche, Favre family.)
Either way – I don’t care.
I was going to report this Favre-hotel story as I would any other newsworthy item because that’s my job. We at TSR try to keep a pulse on what’s happening in the sports world and unfortunately (and I do me unfortunately) Favre remains a hot topic right now.
But I swear, if I have to read or write (save for this current post) one more pointless Brett Favre story, then I’m going to take hostages at the local Wal-Mart and not release them until the media stops torturing us with all this nonsense. (And don’t worry – I’ll let the hostages pick one item out of the store as a keepsake for their troubles…I’m not a monster…)
The title of this post should probably read: I’m sick of the media coverage on Brett Favre, because I know they’re the ones that are shoving all this coverage down our throats and not him. But he doesn’t escape blame here.
Favre is a media whore. He loves to be in the spotlight and he’s become a master of drumming up news whenever the media has become Favre-less for too long. I don’t know how he does it, but he manages to make himself relevant every offseason at exactly the right time.
Seriously, what else is there to talk about right now in the NFL? Absolutely nothing. And who is making all the headlines? Brett Favre. How does he do this? Only a story involving him, his family and a bunch of reserved hotel rooms in Green Bay could wind up on ESPN’s home page. It’s maddening!
Favre is apparently waiting to make a decision on whether or not he’s coming back next season until he tests his recently repaired throwing arm. How convenient. That means he and the media will have plenty of time to suck the life out of all of us while he waits to make a decision.
In the meantime, I’ll be down at the local Wal-Mart if any of you need me.
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This would actually be a big story if the rooms were non-refundable. Then we’d know for sure (or almost for sure) that Favre will be QB’ing Minny.
In the end, he will. He wants to stick it to Ted Thompson. He’s just being spiteful.
When I see him in the purple and gold, I’ll vomit. Then I’ll get over it.
Coming from an All Time Packers fan, I never thought he would do this. . . He disgusts me. I have lost all respect for him. Thank you Favre for making me realize that “YOU” don’t stop to think about your Fans and how selfish and pathetic you can be. You should have stayed retired since the beginning. Now, I know those tears you shed the day of your first retirement interview where all Bull.
The GB fans are the cry babies. do they feel betrayed by every once GB player that played for another team ? or Just “The Great One” Football in GB was dead until Favre came to town. Why dont the GB fans consider the management as the traitors to the fans ? Nobody pushed Elway out, or Marino out. Montana played for the cheifs after SF. Doug Flutie played until he was 43. Some of the best QB’s last season were the oldest, the ones other fans had already thrown away. If Brett plays, I’ll be a fan of that team, as I am a Brett fan. The cry baby GB fans are team fans, not player fans. I wish Brett would play a season or 2 for the skins.
Barnun — Favre retired, unretired, and then retired again in the same offseason. Nobody pushed him out, but at some point enough is enough.
He was my favorite player, but I was a Packer fan before Brett Favre and I’m a Packer fan now that he’s gone. The fact that Favre wants to play for the Vikings simply so he can stick it to his old team is just sad.
Paulsen is right. I’m a fan of football in general and happen to be a faithful follower of the Packers. Favre has every right to play in the NFL with a team of his choice, he’s a free agent after all. However, Packer fans have the right to be disillusioned with a personality and character we were unaware that existed (or unwilling to see). See, it’s not just any team or a comeback for the ‘joy of the game’. This is vindictive, personal and spiteful. He will ONLY play for the Vikings and is doing so ONLY to stick it to the Packers. Love of the game? Passion and purity of a child? No. I’ve lost respect for him even if he doesn’t play another down. Also, folks need to stop being historical revisionists. Packers sent a Jet to pick him up and discuss his comeback prior to the draft (during his fifith annual retirement/unretirement party) and Favre sent it back empty. Rogers became the man and the organization didn’t look back. 100% the right decision for the TEAM….TEAM being a unique concept to Brett obviously lost during his waneing years with the Packers and (more than obviously) withe his recent Jet’s teamates whom he never attempted to embrace. Are you starting to see why fans are sick of the act????
Didnt Brett originally want to unretire and play for the packers ? And then i thought he played for the Jets, not for the vikings. dont most players play for more than one team during their career ? I think it’s been stated that he just wants to play again and that beating the packers after they chose to go wth rodgers over him would Now be a little added bonus. I think he’d like to end on a high note, like Elway did. The vikings would offer one of the best chances of that. He could play elsewhere in the NFC to Beat GB
The Packers eventually went with Rodgers because they could never get a straight answer out of Favre. They were ready to take him back twice, and twice Brett said he was going to stay retired.
Then he wanted a trade, which they obliged, and now he wants to get back at Thompson? Come on.
Elway might have went out on a high note after a lustrous career, but that horse head was the original crybaby. “I don’t want to play for the Colts…WAAAAAAAAA….WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!”
That’s my point. Elway was scorned at one time, Montana was scorned when he went to the cheifs, Cutler just had a tantrum, Bradshaw wouldn’t come back to pittsburg for almost 20 yrs. but the GB CB’s want to act like someone hurt their wittle feewings ….. they got rodgers and seem happy about it, so leave Brett alone. BTW, he asked for a trade AFTER they told him to stay retired. IF they had let him compete for the job, he’d have won, like he Always did.
Favre told them that he was going to stay retired. He held that tear-jerking press conference saying he was retiring, he changed his mind, the Packers were going to welcome him back, he instead decided to stay retired, so the Packers moved on.
By the time he wanted to come back, the Packers were already told twice by him that he wanted to retire. I don’t blame them for going with Rodgers. The Packers are bigger than Brett Favre – not the other way around. They have a team to think about, not one guy to cater to. The possibility of him beating out Rodgers (which I agree, he probably would have) is irrelevant.
Barnun — You seem confused. At least that’s the only explanation I can come up with for your ramblings.
Favre did the retirement dance for three consecutive summers and the Packers took him back each time. The last time, he said he was coming back in March and then changed his mind again, so he actually retired twice two summers ago. And let’s not forget that he retired again last summer, just so he could extract himself from the Jets and get a shot to play against GB with the Vikings. If he wants to close on a positive note, fine…he should have retired for real when he left the Packers after the NFC Championship Game loss. He had a great season that year. The fact that he wants to play for GB’s arch rival just to get back at his old franchise is a slap in the face of all of his fans in GB. He had his chance to QB the Pack last year and he blew it.
Maybe you can’t relate because you don’t root for a team. You root for an individual. So you follow the individual around wherever he goes and root for whatever team he’s on. But most people stick with a team, and when that franchise’s icon gets spiteful and plays for an arch rival just to stick it to the franchise, it can be a little hard to swallow. Call us crybabies if you like (as if we care what some random dude on the internet thinks), but once you start name-calling it means you’ve run out of ideas.
We don’t feel it’s inevitable that Favre would be “scorned at,” as you put it. We all thought he was above that, but now we know that he’s no better than Elway, and that’s sad.
Easy on the Elway shots, Stalter. He screwed a team before he was ever there and was a cocky 20-yr old college kid. Favre is a 75 yr old grey-beard that is screwing the team that gave him the chance to be great. Who knows if we would even know his name if thhe Falcons kept him as their 3rd string for a few more years.
I’m sick of it.
Brett “Play or get off the pot”
jimmy, Brady was a 3rd string QB once also. John, you run in circles. you say Brett only retired from the Jets to get back at GB, but then you point out that he retired twice at GB, who was that to get back at ? If Brett choosed to play and a team wants him, so be it. My team is the Redskins, they haven’t had a Franchise QB since Hollywood Joe. They haven’t been good in forever, Snyder is a terribly impatient owner, but they’re my team. Is Brett’s unretiring worse than Cutler’s Demand for leaving ? Why do you overlook every other players shortcomings and focus on Favre ? I saw Deon last night on the NFL channel and they were talking about the fact that there is no loyalty in sports and that started with management on the owners.
Your reasoning is not linear and your examples all differ, Barnum. Cutler was undermined by a new regime that shopped him without communicating anything, shame on Denver (Cutler didn’t retire on multiple occassions nor did he leave his franchise dangling for four consecutive years).
We’re focused on Favre because it’s like groundhog day: Same story, played out in the media ad infinitum, for multiple years….that’s why the majority of fans are sick of the story and sick of the act. His silence is a greater condemnation of his character this year than any other time.
Gee, Deon ( a former player that was a mercenary free agent going to the highest bidding franchise four different times) accusing the owners of a lack of loyalty…how profound.
The original article leading to all this discussion is spot on: We’re sick of the Favre circus and you can no longer blame the media as long as his silence allows them to speculate.
Barnun – I’m focused on Favre because he’s in the news now. I thought he’d ride off into the sunset. Like I said before, I’m disappointed to find out that he’s just like all the rest of these guys.
As far as my reasoning being circular, it’s just not the case. If he really wanted to simply play, he’d be playing for the Jets (who gave up a good pick to get him). He retired for the 43rd time specifically so he could come back and play for the Vikings. Why? Because he’ll get to play the Packers twice this year. Do you honestly think it’s a coincidence that the one team he really wants to play for just happens to be GB’s arch-rival? Get real.
I have been a Packers fan for years. Even before Brett retired, I think that Rodgers should have been given more of a chance to play. I agree that GB is bigger than one man. Rodgers is an excellent quarterback but he has really only played this last year.
Who cares what Brett Favre is doing? He’s just a person who likes to play football. He retired from GB because he was considerate and wanted to let them keep their integrity rather than getting old and losing games for them. Enter Rodgers, who after all these years finally gets to play.
Favre then decides he really enjoys football and would like to play again. He enjoys the camaraderie of the Packers, but decides on a season with NY for a lack of alternatives. He’s from Wisconsin, wtf did you think he was going to do move to New York? Who in their right mind would choose NY over Wisconsin?
There’s nothing vindictive about joining the Vikings… MN is close to Wisconsin! It’s not for revenge, it’s for a love for the game. The media has created a circus when all he wants to do is play football even though he’s unsure of how much longer he should as he ages.
Why not just post a news story that says: Brett Favre might come back and play for the Vikings. He’s always had fun with the game and could possibly add an interesting twist to the GB MN rivalry. There won’t be animosity with Favre because that’s not how he plays football. Then again maybe you never paid attention to the guy when he smiled after getting sacked.
The media has always put out shit, so why pay attention to it and waste energy resenting it? So they have nothing else to talk about, let them talk. Why blame Favre because he’s the only person in FB right now that is doing something high profile?
Lets all hope Bill Cower doesn’t unretire and coach a non steelers team, that might taint his Hall of Fame image …. oh yea, coaches change teams fairly regular too, dont they
Oh yeah, coaches and HOF QBs are exactly the same thing. Great comparison, man.
Here’s a picture of Brett as a Viking.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3388/3657721841_eda80d31ea_b.jpg