"The Packers have clearly moved on with Aaron Rodgers." EXACTLY jvldss! :) WHY WOULD IT BE SO WRONG TO "SIT" FAVRE ON THE BENCH THOUGH? ONLY UNTIL HIS LIFELONG "PACKER CONTRACT" lol! :) ENDS? Put him IN, ONLY IF, Rodgers gets hurt? Favre SHOULD HAVE sat out, due to his MANY injuries, MANY, MANY GAMES, BUT....??!! (..Rodgers HARDLY got a CHANCE to play AFTER Favre~ LONG LIVE Farve's <lol!> WHOLE "START" RECORD, HOWEVER!...THAT IS A JOKE!!!!!) ....I DON'T CARE TO DISCUSS RODGER'S INJURIES!!! Already been there, done that! lol! :) Yeah. He had 2!..Blah,Blah,Blah! Flukes ;)
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PLEASE DISCUSS :)

The Packers have clearly moved on with Aaron Rodgers. They would like to protect Favre’s legacy with the team and save some face in the process by having him still involved with the organization so I think the $20 million offer makes sense. Favre is clearly the second most successful Packer quarterback of all time so it is important that this ends as amicably as possible. If Favre remains hell-bent on playing then Thompson should grow a pair and trade him to Minnesota to get something for him. If Rodgers does not work out and the Vikings automatically go to the superbowl as all the Favre zealots predict, then it is Thompson whose butt is on the line and I don’t think the Packers wll offer him $20 million to retire.

Reinstate Brett, and stop playing around by saying he'll be second string. The fact is that the Packers know how good he is; otherwise they would not be trying to force him to retire. If they know that he'd be a threat somewhere else, as their actions clearly suggest, then they need just to swallow their pride and reinstate him. All the rest is minor details. I'm shocked at the disloyalty and also shocked at the lack of cool-headed reason. Brett's still the greatest, and we need him.

mymaro~ HELLO...(& DUH! (lol! :) We don't wear ANY shoes here in these "sandy" parts you say I live in (lol! ;)...THAT would just be ASININE of me to do so, don't you think?!!!
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OBVIOUSLY, you are "JUST" a GREEN BAY FARVE fan! ;) (a.k.a. A "fair-weather" fan, in MY opinion!) But, I am a GREEN BAY PACKER fan, NO JEALOUSY towards Favre whatsoever (...NOTHING to be jealous of actually! :) & I'm SERIOUSLY ready for a CHANGE (& a SUPERBOWL! :) FINALLY! :)
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We here, "PACKER" Fans, have given him WAY TOO MANY years~ 15 yrs.+ :( :( :( to get the "job done" & HE HASN'T & CAN'T!! (...OBVIOUSLY!!)...But, atleast he got his OWN RECORDS though, right?! :( :( :( ....That must make you "#4's B*tch" then, mymaro, since you're SO quick to ATTACK people who feel differently! LMAO! :)
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Cut the cord from Farve (lol! :) dere', mymaro!!...PLEASE! (...IF we get a SuperBowl next year, WITHOUT FAVRE, will you STILL be so ornery?!...Just wondering! :)

Fire Thompson.

hard to get sarcasm from a computer screen

how else can it be interpreted? pretty clear.

Sounds to me like a wish in one hand and crap in the other. Either way I'm sure you know which hand will fill up faster. Sorry if you interpret that comment as wishing he get hurt. Maybe he will suit up for Green Bay. Wish in one, crap in the other.

"Maybe we will all get lucky and Favre will break his arm falling off his lawn mower"
that is a direct quote from one of your earlier posts br549

Nooo I didn't "WISH" injury on anyone including Favre. I am a fan of the Pack and Favre, but this is all on him. I disagree with you about it being the fault of the media, he was the one standing at Solders Field a couple years ago crying out his eyes saying he would miss these guys. Then every other year not saying if he would come back untill the last second. He fooled alot of people and I also bought into it. This time he should be a man of his word.

i say that br549 because you wish injury on favre. takes a certain kind of person to stoop that low

mymaro- what do you mean by calling me asinine?
If you were to put in the definition of that word in the sentence, it really doesn't make any sense. But if the silly shoe fits, I guess I will just have to wear it.

Wow. I wonder when we're going to get to read..."My dad can beat up your dad."

if the shoe fits wear it. and the asenine shoe sure fits you soside4life, as well as br549

your ASENINE posts are getting old soside. Your jealousy of Favre is hilarious. Youre better off just leaving your head in the sand down in the "soside".

After all the sniffling,tears and crying Favre did while announcing his retirement "on his own terms", he NEEDS to stay retired. I love watching him play, but, c'mon, every year we go thru the "should I stay or should I go". It's TIME to hang it up Favre while you're on top. This is another Michael Jordan replay!

Why couldn't they have done this from the beginning instead of both sides looking like big babies.

What exactly is your problem? Not one time in here have I attacked you. Now your bringing up a post I put on back almost a month ago, let alone not even about this topic. I'm not a self proclaimed know it all like yourself, or a brain surgon, or a rocket scientist. Just someone with MY opinion. I know nothing about you and would prefer to keep it like that.

Amen Sarah!

Thompson's a jerk and McCarthy is his puppet. Brett Favre called their bluff and we are the losers. The latest news that Mr. Jerk and Mr. Puppet won't even let Favre compete to retain his starting QB role is proof of this. It's time for us fans to take our team back!

GL2 FARVE (lol!) showing up TODAY! :) BUT, he WON'T though (...PULL THROUGH!!!! :), AS ALWAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!

"cant stand anyone else in the spotlight"......is RIGHT dere'!!!!! <lol! ;)>

ASININE is getting OLD dere' mymaro!!! :) lol!

Here's a little nugget of wisdom from BR549 "Can anyone explain why dallas is America's team? Didn't that start in the 90's when they won the superbowls? After that great run, they weren't that good until the last two seasons." I'm not a Dallas fan but I know Dallas was was very successful in the 70's. Ever heard of Tom Landry or Roger Staubach? I didn't think so.

Oh, by the way BR549, Cornfield County wants its "Idiot" back. Better get moving!

Wow! BR549, I must have really hit a nerve with the whole parents/basement thing. I agree with mymaro, watch out for that whole Karma thing. It has a way biting you in the BR549! Giggity-Giggity!

boy he just cant stand anyone else in the spotlight, drama queen? you betcha, at this point whether it be humiliation or injury, either way he will deserve what ever comes his way. hopefully its humiliation and not a bad injury.

bites

br549, to wish injury on someone is frickin assenine. You are a real winner. And brett didnt play with us the last 4 or 5 years the media did. Was it brett that hunted down a camera to ask himself if he was coming back as soon as the season was over? NO! The media created all that NOT BRETT! So quit your whining and I really hope Karma nites you in the rear for your wishing injury on someone.

Sorry to say he doesn't belong to the masses either. His butt belongs to the Pack. As far as getting kicked out, sounds more like you have had experience with that. The jilted lover thing also sounds like your living that one too.

br549- Why all the bitterness? Brett Favre doesn't belong to you, he belongs to the masses. Let him play where he wants! With you being so negative, it's just going to be harder for you to accept #4 playing somewhere else. You remind me of a jilted lover, "If I can't have him, no one will". Get over it and move on. There are far more important things for you to get worked up about, like your parents kicking you out of their basement or your Favre jersey being of no value anymore!!

Maybe we will all get lucky and Favre will break his arm falling off his lawn mower and it will end all of this bull@#$%. quagmire, "siging within the division" (quoting your honor and expertise), means to me NFC north not the whole NFC.

br549- You mean there is a conference besides the NFC? I didn't know that, thanks for enlightening me Einstein!

quagmire, maybe your not as smart as your dog thinks you are. He won't be playing in the nfc, i would be willing to bet he might be playing in the afc. You know the other football conference.

You go, Brett!! I still believe his side of the story, especially since it's now been reported that he never had a Packer-issued phone and that Packer management "made up" the tale about phone records. Naughty boy, Mr. Thompson. WE WANT BRETT!!!!

Im ready for his return!!!!

br549- I believe "within the division" includes the NFC North! Duh!! Just because as a fan, you're upset that he played with you for the last 4-5 years, does not mean he cannot play in the NFL ever again? Quit letting your emotions cloud your thinking.

Case closed quagmire? There is no way he is going to be playing in the NFC north let alone in the NFC at all. He screwed with all of the fans and the team for the last 4-5 years on hanging it up, he should just be done. The conditions on his release are not going to be easy for him. Just in the best interest of the Packers and the team as a whole.

OK, obviously Brett still wants to play. If the Packers don't want him, they should let him go to a team that does. Trade him or give him a "conditional" release. The condition being that he can not sign within the division. Case Closed!

He can always find work doing commercials for the Good Feet Store and Just For Men.

Wouldn't it be poetic justice for the DRAMA QUEEN to go to the VI-QUEENS?

I hope he doesn't file the paperwork and just retires. The Pack isn't going to just let him go "gently into that goodnight", that is, go on to another team just that easily.

Ted Thompson has asked Favre all along if he wanted to come back and he always said no. Ted asked him again a few months back and Favre said he was interested in coming back to play. Ted and MaCarthy made plans to head down to Mississippi to meet with him and finalize the plans and Brett pulled out (this was before the draft). So, the front office went on as usual and drafted a couple of quarterbacks. Now all of a sudden training camp gets closer and Brett gets the itch to play (we all knew he would). I blame them both. Favre should have never hung it up. And Thompson should at least give Favre the chance to compete for the starting quarterback position. How is that going to hurt the team? A little competion would be good for both of them. If Favre sucks and can't beat out Rogers than trade him. Pretty simple solution.

JVLDSS- I can relate to that assessment

ESPN indicated that the Packers have given Tampa and the Jets permission to talk to Favre (not sure if they provided Favre with a Packer cell phone or not). I would love to see him in New York. Can you imagine the Jet's fans reaction to him when he starts jerking them around. Just might be fun to watch.

At this point, nothing good can come of this situation. No matter what they do at this point, and by they I refer to everyone involved, it will end badly.

This should be interesting. My guess (I'm not a sports expert by any means) is that Farve will show up to camp to prove he's conditioned and ready to play. This will put the Pack in a position to get better trades for him. I strongly doubt he'll sit on the bench in favor of Aaron Rogers.

I would love to be at the game when Rodgers starts and Farve sits out-the place will go wild-the energy will be palpable. If anyone has earned the right to change his mind, Brett is the guy.

jvldss- I agree with that assessment completely.

Favre is like the woman you have lived with for a long time. She threatened to leave the past several years and this year when she finally did, you moved on to a new woman. Then, several months after walking out, she starts e-mailing and calling, wanting you to take her back. Then she shows up on your doorstep to find you in bed with the new woman and expects you to kick her to the curb and invite her back in. Sure you have some great history with that woman but she is obviously nuts and it is time for you both to move on.

Huh. So, Mark Murphy states that they have such a respect for Brett. Interesting way of showing it.
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I know I said last week that Brett was staying retired, and at the time, those were his intentions. I know I will get ripped for being a fair-dwelling fortune teller with a cloudy crystal ball. BUT... once you figure out who Jane Skinner is (on Fox News), many questions in this on-going soap-operaesque saga will be answered.
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All lights are pointing toward a rendevous in Tampa.....when is yet TBD.

#4 will be the starter for the Packers on opening day. Better get your superbowl tickets now.

Hope Favre has been working on holding the clipboard for the high school team in Kiln to get ready for this season!
No wait, here's the scenario:
We trade Favre to Tampa for a 5th round pick.
Rodgers starts against Minnesota who will try confuse the young quarterback with unrelenting blitz pressure (plus they have a big score to settle for the tampering charges). Allen and Williams put him out for the season after a very hard sack.
Brohm or Flynn - eenie, meenie, miney, moe.
Tampa beats the Cowboys to go to the Superbowl.