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Did Favre hire a personal trainer?

May 1, 2009 / Anthony Stalter

According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Brett Favre has hired a personal trainer.

Latest buzz is that new free-agent QB Brett Favre, 39, who could end up with the Vikings, has hired a personal trainer at home in Mississippi.
Favre’s sudden arrival on the market makes you wonder if that’s the reason the Vikings haven’t spent much on free agency this year. Maybe they knew something.

Unless Favre just hired the personal trainer to ensure that he looks good for his next Docker’s commercial, this is the first sign that Brett is once again on the comeback trail.

Then again, this is just a rumor and should be treated as such. The Vikings did trade for Sage Rosenfels in the offseason and haven’t given up on former second round pick Tarvaris Jackson either. Brad Childress seems content on Rosenfels and Jackson duking it out in training camp and preseason to determine who will be his Week 1 starter.

Then again, we are taking about the limited Rosenfels and the still raw Jackson here. It wouldn’t be far-fetched to think Childress wants something more out of his quarterback position and has already contacted Favre to gauge his interest in re-joining the NFC North. After all, the Vikings appear to be a quarterback away from once again being the favorites in their division – a division that just got more competitive with the Bears’ addition of Jay Cutler.

Personally, I think if Favre returns it would be a slap in the face of the Jets, who gave up what turned out to be a third round pick for his services last year. They got one season out of him with no playoffs and then he decided to retire again. Now speculation has it that he might possibly return. Of course, the media is bringing on this speculation; Favre’s agent Bus Cook says he still intends to stay retired, so maybe we should trust him……………..I’m sorry, I just blacked out for a second. Where was I? Oh yeah, we should trust Brett Favre that he wants to stay retired…

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Mangini wants Favre to attend Browns’ camp

March 25, 2009 / Anthony Stalter

Eric Mangini is reaching out to Brett Favre in hopes that the future Hall of Fame quarterback will make an appearance at the Browns’ training camp this summer to help be an instructor to Derek Anderson and Brady Quinn.

Mangini told the New York Daily News that he and Favre have been text messaging since they last saw each other December 29, the day the Jets fired Mangini and the day after Favre played his final NFL game.
The two are discussing Favre joining Mangini at Browns camp this summer. Favre couldn’t run the practice team because he is still under contract with the Jets, but Mangini didn’t rule out Favre being a guest instructor for quarterbacks Brady Quinn and Derek Anderson.
“I don’t think it would be anything formal,” Mangini told the newspaper. “It’s not like we are hiring him to run the scout team. I don’t think he would be interested in that. He would be more like a visitor. An open invite.”

This is a flat out stupid idea. Why would Mangini, in his first year in Cleveland mind you, invite a media circus to spring training? Furthermore, when has Favre ever been known as a mentor? The guy has always walked to the beat of his own drum and I could be wrong, but I don’t think I ever heard Aaron Rodgers say Favre was a great inspiration to him in Green Bay.

The idea sounds good; hey, bring in a future Hall of Famer to show Anderson and Quinn the ropes. But it seems highly unnecessary and it would no doubt create a distraction that Anderson, Quinn nor the Browns need in training camp. This just doesn’t make much sense and again, the media will try to blow this up to epic proportions once/if it happens.

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Are the Vikings interested in Brett Favre?

February 17, 2009 / Anthony Stalter

According to Vikings’ owner Zygi Wolf, no, there’s no interest.

Vikings owner Zygi Wilf said he would not have any interest in Brett Favre if he was released by the Jets and available. “I would have been interested 15 years ago,” Wilf said. “No, I’m not interested. No way. I think he’s done well, he retired, it’s good. He’s a great guy. I’m just happy that we don’t have to keep on facing him.”

I don’t think you could be any more clear than that. The Vikings are obviously looking for a long-term solution at quarterback and it’ll be interesting to see what they do with Tarvaris Jackson and Gus Frerotte this offseason.

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Does Favre still want to play for the Vikings?

February 12, 2009 / Anthony Stalter

Dennis Dillon of Sporting News.com is pondering that very question:

Pardon me for being skeptical, but I can’t help wondering if there’s a hidden agenda here. Is Favre, 39, really hanging it up this time? Or is he clearing a path for a return with another team — like, for instance, the Vikings?
In a sense, Favre has had a symmetrical football career. He played 16 years in Green Bay, sandwiched between a beginning bookend year in Atlanta and a finishing bookend year in New York.
What does he have left to accomplish?
He is a three-time NFL most valuable player. He went to two Super Bowls and won one. He owns numerous NFL passing records, and he certainly will be elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.
But somehow, I can’t help but think we haven’t seen the last of Brett Favre. I get the feeling he’s not ready to close the book on his football career. Don’t be surprised if he comes back for a 19th season.
After all, there’s no limit on the number of times he can retire.

I truly believe Favre just likes new challenges at this point in his career. He was done with the Green Bay thing, so he tried the Big Apple. That wasn’t entirely to his liking and for some strange reason there seems to be a notion that he has a desire to play in Minnesota. Maybe he has some strange hard on for walking into Lambeau Field as a member of another team just to see how Packer fans would react. Or maybe he wants to see a fan base like Minnesota cheer him after years of despising him.

Whatever his reason, I’m with Dillion – something tells me Favre isn’t done.

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Brett Favre tells Jets he’s retiring

February 11, 2009 / Anthony Stalter

According to ESPN.com’s Chris Mortensen, Brett Favre has instructed his agent Bus Cook to notify the Jets that he is retiring.

In an e-mail to ESPN’s Ed Werder, Favre indicated he had no regrets about finishing his career with the Jets rather than with the Green Bay Packers franchise he represented for his previous 16 NFL seasons. He specifically praised Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum, team owner Woody Johnson and fired coach Eric Mangini — and even mentioned Thomas Jones and Kerry Rhodes, both of whom were publicly critical of Favre after the team’s collapse in the final month of the season prevented the Jets from making the playoffs.
While Favre did not directly broach the subject of the team simply releasing him so that he might have the option of signing with another team such as the Minnesota Vikings, a source said that Cook informally discussed the option with the Jets. The Jets respectfully declined that option, the source said.
The retirement decision should not have surprised the Jets even though the team had publicly encouraged Favre to play another season. Favre informed Tannenbaum before the Super Bowl that he was leaning toward retirement. At some point within the past week, Favre told Cook to inform the Jets that he wanted to retire without fanfare and that the team could make the decision public at its convenience.

I hate to sound like a pessimist, but we’ve all been down this road before. In fact, we went down this road last year only to have Favre pull an about face and say he wanted to play again. Maybe he does want to officially hang it up with the amount of pain he had to play with at the end of the season last year. Or maybe this is his way of sneaking out the backdoor only to return again in a couple of months.

Nobody knows what’s going through his mind right now. If he is done, hey, it’s been one of the best rides for Packer and football fans alike and Brett was one of the best. He gave a lot of people a lot of great memories, but let’s hold off for the next couple months and see how this situation plays out before assuming he is officially retiring.

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