You can't simply it like that. Sounds nice in a discussion but it's not the full truth.
They begged Favre to come back even though he didn't want to. They flew a plane down there with his teammates. They threw a pile of cash at him. I think that you'd be lying if you were still an elite ball player, a team threw a millions of dollars at you, they begged you to play for them, and you'd say "no." The guy did what 99.9% of us all would have done - played a final season for the money. He didn't only come back for the money.
"First of all, the money was too good," the record-setting quarterback told NFL Network analyst and former Atlanta Falcons teammate Deion Sanders, who immediately responded: "Thank you for being honest, I like that."