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Joe Montana/Steve Young Act I meet Brett Favre/Aaron Rodgers Act II . Why would the Green Bay Packer family family betray the immortal Brett Favre the way they did. After all, just one year ago he led them to the NFC Championship and finished second on the MVP balloting behind New England's quarterback. Brett said that in March he felt the management of the Packers didn't want him back and that is why he retired. But now he still wants to play. Does he deserve to sit on the bench. For sixteen years he's played every game and four years ago he played most of the season with a broken finger. He is one of the greatest quarterbacks of all-time. The way Aaron Rodgers treated the Packers fan at the media last week was nasty. It shouldn't be Aaron Rodgers' time yet; not when Brett is still able to play. Aaron Rodgers hasn't proven he can play in two games in a row without getting injured. If he can't handle the practices, how can he handle the games?
I recall after graduating from HS (oh so many years ago) how my body, for several years would prepare to go back to school in the fall...even though I didn't have to go.
He apparently didn't have a backup plan to get him through the withdrawal symptoms and apparently didn't choose to go cold turkey.
It is easy to judge when you havn't walked the miles he has in his shoes.
But Brett Favre never had an over inflated wallet........ when he signed his contract in 1994 he never again asked for more money, once. Heck, there was a quarterback in Dallas (I won't say his name) las year in his sophomore season that had a worse season that Favre had in his 16th's season and he made more money. All Favre wanted to do was play football. How can you say he has an over-ego when all the people loved him in the NFL and John Madden called him for years the "Michael Jordan of the NFL". He was the only quarterback who earned his paycheck and was in their each game to play.
This is just like marriage and adultery. Some fans have no loyalty anymore when the going gets tough. Maybe Favre thought the management didn't want him back. But for you to say over inflated ego is beyong me. I 100 percent disagree with you as probably for the majority of sports fans. This is America, not a communist country. Brett Favre has the right to change his mind about coming out of retirement. If they don't want him back, they should release him to another team.
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Favre kept the Packers on pins and needles for years about when and if he'd retire. He changed his mind a number of times and the team always accommodated him. When he finally made the decision this last time, he was asked over and over again if he was sure. He said yes, it was what he wanted and that his decision was final. Based on his actions, the team moved on.
Now Brett wants to come back but it's too late. That's not the Packers' fault, that's Favre's own doing. Yes, he gave a lot to the team over many years but that doesn't mean they owe it to him to keep him around forever and it doesn't give him the riht to come back after he quit and take the job away from the person it's been given to. Also, I think it's smart of the team to enforce the provisions of their agreement with Favre that prevent him from playing against them for another team. They'd be crazy to let him do that.
Favre needs to hang it up (like he said he would) before he starts looking like an egotistical whiner.
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Ted Thompson, general manager of the Packers, is the football anti-christ, everyone who is a Packer fan knows that. He has never wanted Brett back.
Everyone here knows I love Brett. BUT, if he still wanted to play, why did he retire in the first place? I think Brett should come back and wait for Aaron Rogers to be injured. AR can't cross the street w/o injuring himself. Right now it's a big power struggle with Ted Thompson at the controls.
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