Forget Mike. I wanna be like Favre, offered $2M a year for the next 10 years to NOT work. I’m in negotiations to make that happen. I’ll let you know how it works out.
There’s plenty we do not know about this saga in Green Bay. It makes little sense to me. Why would Green Bay not want this guy back quarterbacking their team for another year? Why would Favre not negotiate a deal that pays him to sit back without risk of injury? True, he’s due to earn $12M this year. Twelve million this year beats $20M over the next ten years. Surely Favre could get that amount elevated. Rumors were that it went to $25M over a 5 year period, but I suspect that wasn’t true. Such an offer as that would have/should have been very tempting to him, and his family.
There are 32 NFL teams. That means there are 32 starting quarterbacks, not all of them very worthy. In any given season there are probably a handful of teams that aren’t real solid at that position, meaning they really don’t know who should play at that position. There are many others who aren’t solid because they don’t have a player who is capable of doing the job at an above average performance level consistently. So rare are these creatures, it baffles me why Green Bay wouldn’t want Favre back.
Are they worried they’ll lose Rodgers? How can his stock be that high? He’s not started an NFL game yet.
Are they worried the locker room will be divided? I really fail to grasp that notion. Brett Favre walks into the locker room as the starting QB and we’re supposed to think some in the locker room might mumble under their breath, “What a jerk. I can’t believe they’re not letting Aaron play.” I’d like to meet the player who would do that. Better yet, I’d like to give him an IQ test.
It’s possible that GM Ted Thompson so hates Favre that he simply refuses to let Favre back into the Pack? Today, anything is possible!
Another interesting part of this story is the belief that Ari Fleischer seems to be advising the Packers’ communications efforts. And that Favre’s agent, Mr. Cook, is silent. We need Scott Boras or Drew Rosenhaus to be on point with this deal. Then we’d really get some great quotes.
No matter what happens, Favre is going to come out great financially. I so wanna be like Favre!
I hear Engelbert Humperdinck singing…
Please release me, let me go
For I don’t love you anymore
To waste our lives would be a sin
Release me and let me love again
I have found a new love, dear
And I will always want her near
Her lips are warm while yours are cold
Release me, my darling, let me go
(Please release me, let me go)
For I don’t love you anymore
(To waste my life would be a sin)
So release me and let me love again
Please release me, can’t you see
You’d be a fool to cling to me
To live a lie would bring us pain
So release me and let me love again
(Let me love, let me love)
