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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 433259" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="color: #141414"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Perhaps you missed it. Peter King wrote this in February of 2009, after Favre had “retired” from the Jets: “</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">The reality, Favre knows now, is he not only wanted to play again, but he wanted to show Green Bay -- particularly general manager Ted Thompson -- that it was making a big mistake in going forward without him. "Part of me coming back last year, I have to admit now, <strong>was sticking it to Ted</strong>,'' he said in a rather startling admission.” Favre’s own words. And even Favre had to understand that by “sticking it to Ted” he was also sticking it to many Packers fans too. <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/peter_king/02/15/favre/" target="_blank">LINK to King’s MMQB</a>.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #141414">In this same MMQB piece King wrote, “</span><span style="color: black">Let's go back to my visit to Favre's Mississippi house late last July, when it was apparent he wanted to play for one team and one team only -- Minnesota -- after he became convinced the Packers wouldn't give him his job back, but would give him permission to talk to teams of their choice in hopes he could be convinced to go somewhere else.” </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: black">When King writes about “late last July” he is of course referring to July of 2008. Not coincidently that’s the same month the Packers </span><span style="color: #141414">filed tampering charges against the Vikings. The Packers alleged there was a lot of phone contacts between Darrell Bevell (remember him?) and Favre. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #141414"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">The Vikings were bad in 2008 but they had Adrian Peterson, a decent OL and they had traded for Jared Allen before the 2008 season and their D was 13th in scoring in 2008. By far their biggest problem was a huge gaping hole at QB. OTOH, the Bears had traded for Jay Cutler in April of 2008. They didn’t need a QB. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #141414"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">If Favre “retired” from the Jets because he got the crap beat out of him, why did he return to the NFL? All NFL starting QBs get the crap beat out of them. No, I think the evidence is clearly against what you posted. Favre wanted to go to the Vikings before the 2008 season. He pretended to retire from the Jets because he still wanted to join the Vikings after the 2008 season and that was the only way he could get there. And he wanted to do so to “stick it to” Ted Thompson and the Packers. </span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 433259, member: 4300"] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Georgia] [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#141414][FONT=Tahoma]Perhaps you missed it. Peter King wrote this in February of 2009, after Favre had “retired” from the Jets: “[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]The reality, Favre knows now, is he not only wanted to play again, but he wanted to show Green Bay -- particularly general manager Ted Thompson -- that it was making a big mistake in going forward without him. "Part of me coming back last year, I have to admit now, [B]was sticking it to Ted[/B],'' he said in a rather startling admission.” Favre’s own words. And even Favre had to understand that by “sticking it to Ted” he was also sticking it to many Packers fans too. [URL='http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/peter_king/02/15/favre/']LINK to King’s MMQB[/URL].[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Tahoma] [/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#141414]In this same MMQB piece King wrote, “[/COLOR][COLOR=black]Let's go back to my visit to Favre's Mississippi house late last July, when it was apparent he wanted to play for one team and one team only -- Minnesota -- after he became convinced the Packers wouldn't give him his job back, but would give him permission to talk to teams of their choice in hopes he could be convinced to go somewhere else.” [/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma] [/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=black]When King writes about “late last July” he is of course referring to July of 2008. Not coincidently that’s the same month the Packers [/COLOR][COLOR=#141414]filed tampering charges against the Vikings. The Packers alleged there was a lot of phone contacts between Darrell Bevell (remember him?) and Favre. [/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Tahoma] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Tahoma]The Vikings were bad in 2008 but they had Adrian Peterson, a decent OL and they had traded for Jared Allen before the 2008 season and their D was 13th in scoring in 2008. By far their biggest problem was a huge gaping hole at QB. OTOH, the Bears had traded for Jay Cutler in April of 2008. They didn’t need a QB. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Tahoma] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Tahoma]If Favre “retired” from the Jets because he got the crap beat out of him, why did he return to the NFL? All NFL starting QBs get the crap beat out of them. No, I think the evidence is clearly against what you posted. Favre wanted to go to the Vikings before the 2008 season. He pretended to retire from the Jets because he still wanted to join the Vikings after the 2008 season and that was the only way he could get there. And he wanted to do so to “stick it to” Ted Thompson and the Packers. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Tahoma] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma] [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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