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Message: <blockquote data-quote="net" data-source="post: 448096" data-attributes="member: 200">To all of you who DON'T want to retire Brett's number: wake up and smell the coffee. This isn't high school football. Professional football players sign a contract. But that contract isn't a lifetime allegiance to a franchise.Evidence: P. Manning. This is a business deal. Like all deals when the time is up to end it, it ends, whether both parties want it or just one party. Brett DIDN'T want to leave Green Bay, so he got bitter. He thought he could play a few more years and realized at the time, Minnesota was loaded with talent and would contend for the Super Bowl. That's the NFL. It only was bitter because he played for the Vikings. If he stayed with the Jets, none of this would have happened. By reading your posts it appears many of you suffer from the same problem as Brett: bitterness that won't end.Lets get over it!Celebrate the fact that he was one of the NFL's all-time greats, playing in Green Bay, and we were lucky to have him all those years.He will be a first ballot Hall of Fame inductee in 2015. That summer he will be placed in the NFL Hall of Fame. At the Packers first home game that September, he should have his number retired and later put in the Packers Hall of Fame.Time to grow up folks. There was no one who dispised Brett more for what he did than me. I realized my mistake and grew up.</blockquote>

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