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Trading Favre just might be a good deal
Posted: April 13, 2006
Frank Caliendo, the comedian from UW-Milwaukee who has made part of his living with a dead-on impression of John Madden, lampoons Mr. Boom! for whaling the obvious into submission:
If the Bills get into the end zone here . . . they're going to get . . . six points!
It's actually pretty funny, more so because Madden hates the routine. Imagine, then, the material Madden just handed the Waukesha guy with the opinion that Brett Favre might be traded:
And that's a touchdown pass from Favre to Laveranues Coles and Favre is going to do the Lambeau Leap with Coles here at Giants Stadium if Giants Stadium were Lambeau Field, which it could be because a football field is 100 yards.
If Brett Favre doesn't retire, he will return for his 16th season in the NFL. He will turn 37 in October.
It's not so much that Madden has again fulfilled his role as master of the obvious, although the Favre trade rumors have been out there for a while. But what Madden said actually made some sense, just as some of what Mark Chmura said about Favre was applicable. It's just that a lot of people were unwilling to accept Chmura as a credible spokesman in this case.
Likewise, about 85% of the respondents to this newspaper's online poll believe the announcer's opinion should be thrown under the Maddencruiser. Almost no one, especially around here where a packet of green Kool-Aid is included in each Cheesehead purchase, is conditioned to believe that: A.) The Packers would have the nerve to trade No. 4 and B.) Favre would be willing to play for any team except the Packers.
But as Madden / Caliendo might say while wildly flapping his arms, Hey, wait a minute!
Joe Montana, who won three more Super Bowls than Favre, was traded. So were, if you're inclined to take it local, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Ray Allen and Hank Aaron, who somehow didn't look quite right in that polyester Brewers uniform. But as a general manager who was involved in some of the biggest blockbusters of his sport once told me, "No one is untouchable. No one."
Especially when you consider Favre's circumstances. The more you read into Favre's comments, the more it seems as if he still wants to play, just not for a bad team like the Packers. And by dragging this thing out, it appears as if he wants the Packers to make the decision for him.
Actually, they might do the guy a favor by moving him. Montana led Kansas City to the AFC Championship Game in 1993 at age 37 before retiring the next year. Favre will not get the 2006 Packers anywhere close to a championship at age 37. Maybe he could elsewhere, and the demand would exist because only about 10 NFL teams do not need quarterbacks. A combination of draft picks and / or young players that the Packers might get in return, it could be argued, would be more beneficial in the long run than having Favre around for one more year.
Then again, Favre's $10 million salary and the fact that Aaron Rodgers is no Steve Young could be trade inhibitors. And would Ted Thompson want to be known as the man who traded Brett Favre? If he wanted to begin the rebuilding process now instead of delaying it a year, why not?
And as Madden opined to NFL TV, "I don't know if it has to be Green Bay" this season for Favre.
It's fine to laugh at Caliendo's spoof of Madden, who sometimes gets carried away. But on this, Madden just might have a point.
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Trading Favre just might be a good deal
Posted: April 13, 2006
Frank Caliendo, the comedian from UW-Milwaukee who has made part of his living with a dead-on impression of John Madden, lampoons Mr. Boom! for whaling the obvious into submission:
If the Bills get into the end zone here . . . they're going to get . . . six points!
It's actually pretty funny, more so because Madden hates the routine. Imagine, then, the material Madden just handed the Waukesha guy with the opinion that Brett Favre might be traded:
And that's a touchdown pass from Favre to Laveranues Coles and Favre is going to do the Lambeau Leap with Coles here at Giants Stadium if Giants Stadium were Lambeau Field, which it could be because a football field is 100 yards.
If Brett Favre doesn't retire, he will return for his 16th season in the NFL. He will turn 37 in October.
It's not so much that Madden has again fulfilled his role as master of the obvious, although the Favre trade rumors have been out there for a while. But what Madden said actually made some sense, just as some of what Mark Chmura said about Favre was applicable. It's just that a lot of people were unwilling to accept Chmura as a credible spokesman in this case.
Likewise, about 85% of the respondents to this newspaper's online poll believe the announcer's opinion should be thrown under the Maddencruiser. Almost no one, especially around here where a packet of green Kool-Aid is included in each Cheesehead purchase, is conditioned to believe that: A.) The Packers would have the nerve to trade No. 4 and B.) Favre would be willing to play for any team except the Packers.
But as Madden / Caliendo might say while wildly flapping his arms, Hey, wait a minute!
Joe Montana, who won three more Super Bowls than Favre, was traded. So were, if you're inclined to take it local, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Ray Allen and Hank Aaron, who somehow didn't look quite right in that polyester Brewers uniform. But as a general manager who was involved in some of the biggest blockbusters of his sport once told me, "No one is untouchable. No one."
Especially when you consider Favre's circumstances. The more you read into Favre's comments, the more it seems as if he still wants to play, just not for a bad team like the Packers. And by dragging this thing out, it appears as if he wants the Packers to make the decision for him.
Actually, they might do the guy a favor by moving him. Montana led Kansas City to the AFC Championship Game in 1993 at age 37 before retiring the next year. Favre will not get the 2006 Packers anywhere close to a championship at age 37. Maybe he could elsewhere, and the demand would exist because only about 10 NFL teams do not need quarterbacks. A combination of draft picks and / or young players that the Packers might get in return, it could be argued, would be more beneficial in the long run than having Favre around for one more year.
Then again, Favre's $10 million salary and the fact that Aaron Rodgers is no Steve Young could be trade inhibitors. And would Ted Thompson want to be known as the man who traded Brett Favre? If he wanted to begin the rebuilding process now instead of delaying it a year, why not?
And as Madden opined to NFL TV, "I don't know if it has to be Green Bay" this season for Favre.
It's fine to laugh at Caliendo's spoof of Madden, who sometimes gets carried away. But on this, Madden just might have a point.
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