Month: July 2008 (Page 27 of 39)

So now Brett Favre wants the Packers to release him. Apparently he’s a little upset that the Packers haven’t exactly rolled out the welcome mat for his return and now he wants to have a “mutual parting.”

Favre wants a mutual parting rather than having to force the Packers’ hand by writing a letter to request his reinstatement to the active 80-man roster. Under league policy, the team would have to comply or release him.

Cook’s letter did suggest that Favre’s accomplishments for the franchise merited the team honoring his request to be released, also asking that the action be taken “with no strings attached.” Favre does not want to be traded, sources said, because he wants the freedom of choice to play for any other franchise.

Remember that girl you used to date that no matter what she did or said, you’d always take her back because of how she made you feel and how much she meant to you? That’s Brett Favre to the Packers. Every year now he wants to break up and peruse other things, only to want to get back together a short time later. And every year the Packers take him back because of how he makes them feel and how much he’s always meant to them.

Well now the Packers have had enough. They think Aaron Rodgers has something to offer and they’re sick of fickle Favre. They’re tired of always wondering if Brett will come back, so they’re moving on. And you know what? I don’t blame them. They can’t do this every year and if Favre is upset that they won’t welcome him back with open arms, then he needs a wake up call.

On top of that, it sure as hell seems that Favre wants to play for another franchise, so the Packers should release him and be done with the situation. Sorry Packer fans, but this circus has to end. I know he is the Green Bay Packers and I still firmly believe he would be better option in 2008 than Rodgers, but enough is enough already.

According to a FOX affiliate in Colorado, former Broncos’ running back Travis Henry has tested positive again for the hippie juice.

“He is coming up for a year suspension,” the source told Josina Anderson.

This is the second time Henry is facing a possible one-year suspension from the NFL.

On December 4, 2007, the 29-year-old Henry successfully appealed a previous positive marijuana test result of 21 nanograms/milliliter. Henry’s attorneys demonstrated a lapse in the NFL’s discovery process when the league failed to turn over all of Henry’s test results from within a two-week period of his offending sample.

Steve Zissou, one of Henry’s attorneys at the time, told Fox 31 Sports that Henry had a negative test result four days prior to testing positive as well.

“There are false positives in the world of testing,” Zissou said at that time.

Now Henry faces a long road of defending himself again should he choose to do so.

False positives? Good luck. Considering the Broncos produce 1,000-yard rushers like Henry produces babies, the team was wise to dump this clown when they did.

There’s more to the Matt Jones-drug arrest that occured early Thursday morning. Apparently the genius was found cutting cocaine with Foot Locker credit card.

Jones, 25, as well as two other men, were inside a Toyota 4Runner in Fayetteville just after 12:40 a.m. Thursday when officers approached. In a report, officers allege they saw a card covered in a white powder in Jones’ lap as he used a Foot Locker credit card to scrape it.

Officers opened the door and ordered Jones to put his hands in the air. According to the report, Jones kept his left hand out of view, forcing at least one officer to draw his handgun.
Jones, as well as Jared Hicks, 25, and Benjamin Cook, 26, were arrested. Hicks is also a former Razorback.

Officers say they searched the sport-utility vehicle and found a plastic bag filled with a white substance that tested positive for cocaine and a jar with possible marijuana residue inside.
Officers questioned Jones, who acknowledged the white powder was cocaine, the police report said.

Police said 6 grams of cocaine were found. The threshold for potential charges of possession with intent to deliver is 1 gram. However, prosecutor John Threet said there is no evidence that Jones intended to deal the drug.

Let’s look at the bright side here. Police said that Jones didn’t drop any of the coke on the ground when they arrested him. That’s more than the Jags can say when Jones is on the field, trying to catch the football.