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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 440492" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="color: #141414"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">I have posted I view Favre as a traitor to the Packers. I understand reasonable fans can differ on that and on how they view Favre generally. However, I do find it interesting those with more favorable views of Favre often (not always) either don’t include all of his actions or mischaracterize them. For example, HyponGrey says above Favre went to the Vikings because they gave him a chance to play, apparently forgetting the Jets gave him that chance. The only reason Favre ended up going to the Vikings was he told the Jets he was retiring and they released him. IMO that was a blatant lie in order to accomplish Favre’s stated goal of “sticking it” to Ted Thompson. No matter how others categorize his "retirement" from the Jets, there is absolutely no evidence Favre couldn’t have returned to the Jets in order to continue playing. If he just wanted to play, he could have continued to do so in New York.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #141414"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Over the years even before what I view as the Favre-created mess in 2008, IMO some Packers fans misunderstood what happened when Favre agreed to renegotiate his contract in order to free up cap space for the Packers. What happened was Favre either agreed to re-characterize money he was due to receive as salary as a bonus, or otherwise agreed to accept future payments early. It is the equivalent of an employee agreeing to accept her year-end bonus in March. Because of the time value of money, Favre was either benefited or was left unaffected financially by those renegotiations. I am not aware of a single instance in which Favre agreed to take less money during a re-structuring of his deals with the Packers. To be fair, it was reported Favre offered to accept less money if the Packers acquired Randy Moss, but that of course never took place. Obviously I don’t like Favre but I don’t blame him for not taking a “paycut”, I just want to set the record straight. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 440492, member: 4300"] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Georgia] [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#141414][FONT=Tahoma]I have posted I view Favre as a traitor to the Packers. I understand reasonable fans can differ on that and on how they view Favre generally. However, I do find it interesting those with more favorable views of Favre often (not always) either don’t include all of his actions or mischaracterize them. For example, HyponGrey says above Favre went to the Vikings because they gave him a chance to play, apparently forgetting the Jets gave him that chance. The only reason Favre ended up going to the Vikings was he told the Jets he was retiring and they released him. IMO that was a blatant lie in order to accomplish Favre’s stated goal of “sticking it” to Ted Thompson. No matter how others categorize his "retirement" from the Jets, there is absolutely no evidence Favre couldn’t have returned to the Jets in order to continue playing. If he just wanted to play, he could have continued to do so in New York.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Tahoma]Over the years even before what I view as the Favre-created mess in 2008, IMO some Packers fans misunderstood what happened when Favre agreed to renegotiate his contract in order to free up cap space for the Packers. What happened was Favre either agreed to re-characterize money he was due to receive as salary as a bonus, or otherwise agreed to accept future payments early. It is the equivalent of an employee agreeing to accept her year-end bonus in March. Because of the time value of money, Favre was either benefited or was left unaffected financially by those renegotiations. I am not aware of a single instance in which Favre agreed to take less money during a re-structuring of his deals with the Packers. To be fair, it was reported Favre offered to accept less money if the Packers acquired Randy Moss, but that of course never took place. Obviously I don’t like Favre but I don’t blame him for not taking a “paycut”, I just want to set the record straight. [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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