I’m still holding to my prediction of a couple of months ago when this thing started. Brett will dunk, dink, and hand-off for three quarters against us until he won’t be able to contain himself. Then comes the downfield frustration pass into our waiting arms. That is his MO now and it is reminisent of what his fans call “the excitement he provides”; except that it won’t be our hearts that are broken. Thirty-nine/Fourty year old legs do not have the capability of escaping full-house blitzes that he will face. You may think he is invincible and will just dump it off, but he has never faced the pressure we are going to bring.

Al, I definitely concur. Nobody seems to mention the 9-7 team lost Pro-bowl center Matt Birk. Now they have a center who has never started an NFL game and a Rookie RT. Did anyone notice that the leading receiver for the Vikes caught only 53 balls.

This moment was a long time coming.
Nov 2007 My newborn son and wife and mother-in-law are settled in for a quiet evening. This is the Sunday Night matchup between Dallas & Green Bay with the NFC-Championship hanging in the balance. I have NFL Network but I also had a two month old son, soon I drive down to the new Buffalo Wild Wings and get there early for the prime seats. I am joined by a throng of Packer fans who dont have NFL Network but have a need to watch the game. Soon the place is filled with a least 100 fans half dallas and half Packer fans. We all know how that game started. Wade Phillips deployed 2 deep safeties to short circut the deep ball Favre threw 2 horrendous picks then a well timed blitz by a Corner knocks Favre out of the game. I seriously considered leaving. I have dealt with Cowboy fans all my life and this is about to get ugly. Aaron Rodgers is about to turn the game directly into oblivion. Cue Bach, Beethoven or even Handel. Aaron Rodgers played played better in Texas Stadium than Favre ever did. I am sure Ted Thompson had an epiphany that night as well as much of Wisconsin. Michael Irvin said that he wished Favre would come back that game. BLF realized also that his star was fading. Brett would lead the Pack to the brink of the Super Bowl but alas it was not meant to be.
HE RETIRED but the Pack had a more than adequate replacement already under contract.
This B movie performance today and him invoking his daugther is right up there with Nixon saying ” I am not a crook”. Today showed me that Brett has never understood the mystique of the Pack. Even many so-called Packer fans who have only been Packer fans the past 15 years dont get it either. They dont remember suffering through David Whitehurst , Randy Wright, Blair Kiel, and that side-armer from Duke Anthony Dilweg. So they dont comphrend the Packers as cultural experience only as the football team. They dont know prior to 1995 Farve would either check into a dump off or find Sterling Sharpe. They dont know the significance of Terdell Middleton.
Those fans I give a pass to because they believe that Favre and the Packers are one in the same. ESPN and the copycat network contribute to this false belief.
Colin Cowherd uttered this vile tripe on his “broadcast” today. Calling Packer “hypocrites” saying we created Favre the diva. This is the same SOB that said New Orleans shouldnt be rebuilt after Katrina. Mr. Cowherd show up in Green Bay and make that statement and see how long you last.
Anyway the sound bite world of today thinks the Packers are just another football team. True Packer fans know this is not true. According to Sports Business Journal there are only TWO NFL teams that have a National following one is the Pittsburgh Steelers the other is the Green Bay Packers. The Article stated that some would contend Dallas has nationwide following, but they conceded the negative view of the cowpokes outweigh the positive.

i fell in love with brent because he was a packer. i did not fall in love with the packers because of brent. yes, i will choke every time i see him in purple. i wish none of this nonsense would have ever happened no matter whose fault it is or was. but he is just another rich self absorbed athlete to me now. brent the player is one thing, brent the person is some one i can do with out in green bay. he is a lucky man. he has made every thing work out to his choosing. i’m sure we all wish we could orchestrate our fate that way. but i would like to think i had enough money and fame in his situtation not kick a million fans in the nuts to get what i want.

This is a sad day in Packer history that could have been avoided, but because of 2 egos who couldn’t work together it is a tragic fate that all must endure due to their selfishness.

Anyone, on either side who cannot admit fault on both sides is both niave and ignorant. This, as others have stated, was a long time coming…not since November 2007, but since April 2005 when TT when drafted AR. That day he chose to win with AR and start rebuilding the Pack as opposed to reloading with Favre.

This entire mess has been brewing ever since.

I will never forgive current management for their epic decision to move on, starting in 05.

I will also never forgive Favre for putting on purple.

What happens on the field this year will determine whether Traitor Teddy made the right move to go w/AR over Favre.

No result is without remorse, either a fallen legend or my beloved Pack gets egg on their face. Any true fan wants no part of either outcome.

Matt Hayton, please explain your understanding of the word “Traitor”. Also, perhaps you could explain the rational of reloading w/ a 35 yr old QB, vs. rebuilding w/ a 22 yr old QB. It would appear that you lean a little to the BF side of the controversy so you should be very happy given what he now has surrounding him.

Matt,

Lately, I’ve come to tolerate your nonsense. Your post above proves that you are an idiot.

As a somewhat frequent postor on this blog and a Packer fanatic I feel it my responsibility to say at least something about this situation.

The only thing I have to add is I don’t care. Hope everyone is back to talking about the 34 defense pretty soon and our high powered offense.

The only real problem I have with the whole scenario is that BF got his feelings hurt because AR was drafted, to me that is childish. I didn’t hear Al Harris or Charles Woodson complaining when we drafted about 5,000 cornerbacks in the past 5 years. Did Driver whine when Greg Jennings, James Jones, Jordy Nelson, Brett Swain, etc were drafted? I guess it’s different in that there is only 1 QB, but saying Brett is a grown man when he gets his little feelings hurt over another QB being drafted? Maybe he should act like a grown man? Did Rodgers complain when we wasted a 2nd round pick on Brohm? I’m sure we could dig up the draft boards and find dozens of players who have contributed more than Brohm and were drafted after him. BF is the one who has acted like the little girl scorned by her first boyfriend.

Chew on this: what if the Vikings retire Favre’s number in their stadium before the Packers? What if they retire it at all? That would make me puke.

” I believe another part of this saga is that a soon to be 40 year old man has nothing that is more rewarding than football. ”

Great observation. ….. You’d think with his influence & celebrity status that he would have many, many interests after football. One has to wonder if the ‘good ole’boy act’ is actually the reality of BF. …. He might only be football & nothing else. … Too bad.

Have to agree. …. In 2008, AR was obviously the next generation of GB QBs. …If I remember correctly, AR replaced a “retired” legend….. Yet some still blame the Pack. ….. It’s called delusional thinking.

Sorry JeffN. ….. I can understand your desire to move on but BF is slated to play the Pack twice this year. … He’s back in the picture. …. As irritating as it may seem, it can’t be avoided. ………… Consider this: BF signed a two-year contract for $25 mil —– all guaranteed………. The ‘Favre Fiasco’ is not going anywhere anytime soon.

matt and legat – how am I an “f-ing” idiot” for saying I want no part in this? Please explain. Namecalling is always easier than making a valid point, you are the 2 looking like idiots.

To set this straight I get, admit and am not defending Favre for his schenagins. What I don’t get is why everyone on here thinks current management has nothing to do with this mess. That is just as dillusional as saying they are completely to blame for it, which is not what I am saying.

Both Favre and TT have slef-serving egos? Most on here eagerly admit Favre selfishness but are reluctant to be honest that TT is in the same boat. Go ask Andrew Brandt if TT has an ego, bet you’ll get an honest answer from him. No one batted two eyelashes when Brandt, widely regarded as one of the best cap guys in the league, left the Packers last year due to “irreconciliable differences” with Ted. But I’m sure you all will just blame that on Favre, too. Drink up kool-aid lovers!

Matt,

First of all, I never said you were an “f-ing idiot.” I merely said you were an idiot.

Second, namecalling may be easier than making a valid point, but you have done neither.

Third, “This, as others have stated, was a long time coming…not since November 2007, but since April 2005 when TT when drafted AR. That day he chose to win with AR and start rebuilding the Pack as opposed to reloading with Favre.” If you honestly believe this, then all of the explanation in the world won’t make a bit of difference. I could go on for paragraphs and paragraphs about how profoundly stupid this line of reasoning is, but you will clearly never get it. You believe what you want to believe – evidence, logic and common sense be damned.

Al-
It also says that Bob Harlan, “praised him” and apparently Ron Wolf had no issues working with Brandt. Sorry, I’d trust the opinion and working relationship of those 2 individuals over TT anyday.

Also, you’ve made it clear that you trust anyone over TT. That says more about you than him.

Rocky70, you’re pulling my leg. MIN paid 25Mil, guaranteed? And people complain about our management. I know he told them about the Cuff, so why would they guarantee?

I don’t know what happened with Andrew Brandt, but I emailed him and he was quick and responsive in giving me a very thoughtful answer. Obviously, you can’t judge someone on a limited contact, but I’ve emailed others who never gave me the time of day. I’m sticking to my promise not to say anything about the present GM till the season starts. I’m looking FORWARD to the next preseason tune-up and not looking BACK at former players.

Jeff-

I have the same strange suspicion that this will all end in the playoffs. Now that would be a game for the ages. Could you imagine Favre and the Queens losing to us in the playoffs? As much as I have admitted disdain for TT, there isn’t a chance in hell I’d want to see the purple beat us in the playoffs! Go Pack Go!

My goals for our team remain the same…go to the playoffs. If they accomplish that I am a happy camper beleive it or not…we just better beat them in the playoffs! Losing to them in the playoffs would make me puke!

I think everyone here already knows what I think. It is still amazing to me the level of sniveling whining that some of you exhibit, “he’s dead to me now, sniff sniff”, like he was married to you assholes and you got dumped somehow.

“Favre owes more to us than we do to him.”—This is the biggest bunch of bullshit ever. No players owe you a goddamn thing, other than giving effort on the field. Fans don’t owe him anything, but he certainly doesn’t owe Packer fans the say over how he lives the rest of his life. If he wants to play, and someone wants to pay him $10-25 million to do it, who is anyone to say he shouldn’t? You bashers act like he mugged your frigging mother.

Let’s see…should I never play football again cuz the Packers don’t want me…or should I take that $25 million from this team in Minnesota?

It seems the Bears & Vikes have fallen on the sword before game 1. Cutler has had a full training camp and obviously is not on the same page with his receivers. There is not one Vike receiver in the same class as Cotchery,Coles and Keller on the NYJETs
Look at Sanchez he is finding those guys. As Dom Capers has said systems dont make players.

Is this your donation, Al?

“Now that all is said and done I can say I told you so. I’m not going to dig up the post, you all saw it so you know I said that when it came right down to it Brett Favre would decide coming back wasn’t worth the effort and he would remain retired.”

If it is, you can have, I mean, take it back.

Zack, you’re right, alot of this could have been avoided if TT had had the balls to tell Favre to get f-cked and just cut him.

p_b, from 2 posts up, what would have been avoided, other than we would have avoided getting any compensation for Lord Waffle, and we would have avoided having to wait a year for his spite tour to come back to Lambeau draped in purple? Yeah, that would have gone over real well. Now if TT had done that, THAT would have ticked me off.

What is lost on the apologists is the 1000 miles of difference between the way Reggie White cut ties with the Packer organization and unretired, and what Favre’s pulled for the last five plus years. It’s not that he unretired, it’s how he’s done it, and the consequences reaching across three NFL teams that seems totally lost on him. Hey, it’s great that he hasn’t lost anything in your eyes, but you can’t deny that it has changed the opinion of many, many people, which is kinda the definition of a legacy. Favre is wrong when he says his legacy belongs to him. You think Mike Vick’s legacy belongs to him?

Oh, I don’t blame the Vikings, though I don’t think that return on investment will extend to the playing field.

I just hope Favre still feels it was worth it years from now when he is remembered as much for his bridge burning as his 16 years in Green Bay (and if you think he won’t be remembered that way now, you’re delusional).