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OMG:
I feel as though Farve is really tarnishing his own legacy. Instead of being hailed as one of the best quarterbacks of all-time, he could very well be remembered as an ungrateful crybaby, as he has been quoted as saying the Packers didn't feel as though they wanted him back. Nothing could be further from the truth. For three years now, Green Bay fans, as well as Farve fans have put up with his own indecisions of retirement. Now that he has officially done that, he says he is not wanted.
I wish he would just do what he says he is going to do. I love the man and all he stands for, but this act is selfish and immature in my opinion.
Aaron Rodgers has handled all of this quite well. As I have heard most of the Packer players interviewed, Rodgers is "our quarterback." He is our future. I hope he uses this same attitude as our leader on the field.

We'll here it in Favre's own words tonight on FoxNews, when he interviews with Greta Van Susteren. I suppose the media circus will continue . . .

Here we go again, retirement round three.... Don't take me wrong here, I have appreciated what the man has done on and off the field all these years, but this is getting totally old. He complains to Greta that the Packers pressured him into retirement then just wants them to come out and tell him if they want him or not and stop making things up for the public. What??!!! After 2 years of this, ANY team would want a yes/no prior to the April draft so they can map out their strategy. If he felt that way, then he should have manned up and told the world at his retirement cry fest that he was pressured into retiring. Sorry, but the Packer organization gave him plenty of chances to say he wanted to play again and I can't blame them for saying they've moved on. They have a WHOLE TEAM to worry about and prepare for the coming season and coddling a grown man tossing a hissy fit is stupid. If he really wants to play the game and give it 100%, then show up at training camp, show up at the OTA's, just plain BE THERE and stop the ego feeding crapola. He says he never filed the retirement papers, so, he is still under contract. What did he tell the other players who wanted out of their contracts, hmmmmm.. If he is serious about it, then show up, do the job, and WIN the starting quarterback job. It's that simple folks. The team and the fans will welcome him back with open arms and lots of love. I can already hear people getting upset that he should win the starting job back, but, remember, he held his conference and told the world he retired. Think about it.

I’ve always hated football and never cared about the Packers much, until I watched BRETT FAVRE. That man is absolutely the GREATEST! I didn’t even like HIM much at first, but over the LONG years I’ve learned to admire him as a QB, leader and person and I grew to LOVE the Packers. To watch the way Ted Thompson, Mike McCarthy and Mark Murphy have disrespected Brett and the fans is sickening. Isn’t it obvious to EVERYONE that these three have made life extremely difficult for Brett AND the other players since these three arrived? Isn’t it also obvious that they don’t care any more about WINNING the SUPERBOWL than they do about the players and fans? What do they care about? The Packers are UNLIKE ANY OTHER team in football! Brett is UNLIKE ANY OTHER QB! There would be no Packers, if not for ALL Brett has done. The Packers would have disappeared LONG AGO. It’s time for the Packers to make it right; bring Brett home where he belongs as our STARTING QB and give him ALL the support HE needs to lead the Pack to victory!

Whoever hired these three should fire them, they are dragging the packers down to a bottomless pit, they should be called the "Evil Three" and the question is "How Low will they go?"
If they had a brain they would bring brett back for the rest of his contract and get the team back on a hopefully winning streak. Think of the Organization you three, not your own stubborn egos. Get this team back to the way its suppose to be with Brett leading the Pack and forget everything else.

It's so OBVIOUS that Brett is now taking the whining, cry baby approach and claiming he was 'forced' to retire. Hmmm...is this the same guy who laughed last year that if he didn't show up for camp, what were they going to do...bench him? It's OBVIOUS that Brett wielded alot of influence and power on the GB team, and perhaps the management wanted to take it away.

He's displaying some attitude, which is fine, and some immaturity, which is also fine. However, if he cared about the game and not his own ego he'd stop all of this showboating and handle it behind closed doors with some dignity and privacy.

I never thought I'd be blogging, but if the right eyes see this, MAYBE they will really "DO the RIGHT thing" concerning Brett Favre and the present state of the Green Bay Packers. The reality of the situation is that if I heard correctly, if Brett "Officially" comes out of retirement, he has 3 years left on his contract (correct me if i'm wrong). During this offseason he may have been "retired". But if you really think about it, Brett Favre has not missed Training Camp (Yet), and he also has not missed 1 Game since the previous season ended. So technically, If Favre was Re-Instated by the NFL before Pre-season and/or Training Camp, It's as if he NEVER left in the 1st place. Now when you look at it this way, you think about it being the same as if he never retired. He had what appeared to be one of his greatest seasons on record. He is the "Ironman" of the NFL. It all speaks for itself. A question that is raised in alot of minds is, if Brett wouldn't have been pushed into a split decision, and it was "business as usual" for the management of the Packers, does anyone really think Favre being starter would ever be in question? By not playing Favre as starter, regardless of the retirement word having happened, not only is it a slap in the face to Brett Favre and his Legacy, but a slap in the face of the Fans (who pay out the nose and pay "Management's wages"), the Packer Organization and it's Tradition and History, The reputation of the City of Green Bay and State of Wisconsin, The NFL, and the Entire Nation. According to some National Polls I have seen as well as mo

Here's an interesting comparison to the Favre situation. Last season Michael Strahan of the New York Giants did not report to training camp. Later he reported and the team activated him to the active roster on 09/08/07. Then they proceeded to win the Super Bowl. Seems like the Giants welcomed one of their star players back to the starting line-up with open arms. He was welcomed, I might add, even though he criticized Tom Coughlin up & down. Interesting!!!