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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 500558" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">As much as I dislike posting about Favre I want to help set the record straight because it’s been my experience that many “Favre fans” aren’t informed about the facts regarding what I refer to as the “Favre-made mess”.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">On September 9, 2002, Peter King wrote a column reporting his interview with Favre in which he talks about retirement and how home sick he becomes when he has to leave home and go to Green Bay. Here’s a revealing paragraph: “On the day <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/topic/article/Green_Bay_Packers/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm" target="_blank">Green Bay</a> <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/topic/article/Brett_Favre/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm" target="_blank">quarterback Brett Favre</a> had to leave his beloved house and 460 acres in <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/topic/article/Hattiesburg/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm" target="_blank">Hattiesburg</a>, Miss., to report to training camp by 7 p.m., he began to think this might be his last camp. As a private plane stood by at a nearby airstrip for the 2-hour flight to <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/topic/article/Green_Bay_Packers/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm" target="_blank">Green Bay</a>, he was sweating a stream while edging a mile of his property where it meets the road, refusing to leave until the job was done. He finished just after noon and jetted off, <u>reluctantly</u>, at two.” </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1026712/" target="_blank">http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1026712/</a></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The reason I bring this up to show Favre started his ‘look at me, beg me not to retire’ dance long before Thompson became GM. In typical Favre fashion, before the 2003 season as he was peppered with questions about retiring, he responded, “I can't even remember how the whole retirement thing started, but whoever started it needs to be shot." King may have asked him the question but of course it was Favre himself who he said “needs to be shot”. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I’ve brought this up before but I think it bears repeating: In his interview with Greta, Favre <span style="color: black">admitted to telling Thompson how to do his job shortly after Thompson took over as GM: He told him he had to keep both Wahl and Rivera. And while Favre was pressuring Thompson, he himself hadn’t yet committed to playing the season. Consider this from Thompson's point of view.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: black">Then after Thompson fired Sherman, Favre pressured him into signing his friend, Mariucci as head coach. Wouldn't that have been great - another HC who would bow to Favre? And later Favre pressured Thompson to acquire Moss. The head coach is the QB’s “boss”. The GM is the head coach’s “boss”, so in effect Favre was telling his boss’s boss how to do his job and that began shortly after Thompson got the job. I, for one, am very grateful in 2005 the Packers hired a GM who understood - and understands - what his job was/is; to look out for the best short- and long-term interests of the franchise. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">That’s why I call it “Favre-made”. The ah-shucks hillbilly who 'just loved to play and would play for free' bought into the BS spewed by some <em>Favre</em> fans – that he <em>was</em> the franchise. No one, I repeat NO ONE is bigger than the franchise. Not even the two men responsible for creating it. Not even the greatest head coach the NFL has ever seen. Certainly not any single player. And most certainly not one who literally threw chances to advance in the playoffs away.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 500558, member: 4300"] [FONT=Arial]As much as I dislike posting about Favre I want to help set the record straight because it’s been my experience that many “Favre fans” aren’t informed about the facts regarding what I refer to as the “Favre-made mess”.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]On September 9, 2002, Peter King wrote a column reporting his interview with Favre in which he talks about retirement and how home sick he becomes when he has to leave home and go to Green Bay. Here’s a revealing paragraph: “On the day [URL='http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/topic/article/Green_Bay_Packers/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm'][COLOR=windowtext]Green Bay[/COLOR][/URL] [URL='http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/topic/article/Brett_Favre/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm'][COLOR=windowtext]quarterback Brett Favre[/COLOR][/URL] had to leave his beloved house and 460 acres in [URL='http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/topic/article/Hattiesburg/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm'][COLOR=windowtext]Hattiesburg[/COLOR][/URL], Miss., to report to training camp by 7 p.m., he began to think this might be his last camp. As a private plane stood by at a nearby airstrip for the 2-hour flight to [URL='http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/topic/article/Green_Bay_Packers/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm'][COLOR=windowtext]Green Bay[/COLOR][/URL], he was sweating a stream while edging a mile of his property where it meets the road, refusing to leave until the job was done. He finished just after noon and jetted off, [U]reluctantly[/U], at two.” [/FONT] [FONT=Arial][url]http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1026712/[/url][/FONT] [FONT=Arial]The reason I bring this up to show Favre started his ‘look at me, beg me not to retire’ dance long before Thompson became GM. In typical Favre fashion, before the 2003 season as he was peppered with questions about retiring, he responded, “I can't even remember how the whole retirement thing started, but whoever started it needs to be shot." King may have asked him the question but of course it was Favre himself who he said “needs to be shot”. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]I’ve brought this up before but I think it bears repeating: In his interview with Greta, Favre [COLOR=black]admitted to telling Thompson how to do his job shortly after Thompson took over as GM: He told him he had to keep both Wahl and Rivera. And while Favre was pressuring Thompson, he himself hadn’t yet committed to playing the season. Consider this from Thompson's point of view.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][COLOR=black]Then after Thompson fired Sherman, Favre pressured him into signing his friend, Mariucci as head coach. Wouldn't that have been great - another HC who would bow to Favre? And later Favre pressured Thompson to acquire Moss. The head coach is the QB’s “boss”. The GM is the head coach’s “boss”, so in effect Favre was telling his boss’s boss how to do his job and that began shortly after Thompson got the job. I, for one, am very grateful in 2005 the Packers hired a GM who understood - and understands - what his job was/is; to look out for the best short- and long-term interests of the franchise. [/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]That’s why I call it “Favre-made”. The ah-shucks hillbilly who 'just loved to play and would play for free' bought into the BS spewed by some [I]Favre[/I] fans – that he [I]was[/I] the franchise. No one, I repeat NO ONE is bigger than the franchise. Not even the two men responsible for creating it. Not even the greatest head coach the NFL has ever seen. Certainly not any single player. And most certainly not one who literally threw chances to advance in the playoffs away.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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