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Brett Fawv-ruh
Bud Selig
Roger "Pig" Clemens
Dan Fogelberg
Clinton Portis
July 15, 2008
White Russian
Here are some excerpts from an article on Brett “Magic Johnson” Fawv-ruh on cnnsi by Peter King…
McCarthy says before he departed for the NFL meetings in Palm Beach on the last weekend of March, he had heard that the quarterback was interested in playing again. McCarthy called Favre, and Favre said he was seriously considering it. McCarthy said he talked with Thompson and they agreed they should take Favre back as a starter.
They got a member of the Packers Board of Directors to give them his private plane for the day, and planned to go to Favre's Hattiesburg home on the following Tuesday, from the league meetings, to iron out all the details of Favre's return. "I was just going into mass Saturday at 5 with my wife,'' McCarthy said, "and my cell phone rang. It was Brett. He said he and [his wife] Deanna talked about it, and he was going to stick to his original decision. I said, 'Are you sure?' ... And he said he was sure.'' …
…When exactly is it too late for a great player to come back to a team that was an overtime drive from the Super Bowl? There's no question that it had to be sometime between April 1 and June 20 for the Packers. That June date is when Favre told McCarthy again he wanted to come back. "But when I asked [Brett] if he was 100 percent sure, he said, 'I can't say that,' '' McCarthy said. "I said, 'Are you 100 percent ready to commit yourself?' '' This is when McCarthy told Favre, in his recollection, that "To walk in the locker room now and pull the rug out from Aaron Rodgers would be pretty tough.''
Diesel
This must be of great interest to Rodgers to learn that they were prepared to fly down and bring him back after he retired. Rodgers is the starter but he can't feel that he has 100% management support. I hope Rodgers does very well to start the season so this story can die or maybe it will just take on a new flavor. Fav-ruh appears to have the same decision making issues as Brother Nature.
July 21, 2008
White Russian
Fawv-ruh tries to paint a picture of the Packer organization being the bad guy, which they are not. He put them in a very difficult situation. Every year we had the Fawv-ruh Retirement Watch and the Packers had to deal with not knowing when he was actually going to be gone. Then after he finally does pull the plug, he indicates he wants to come back. But even then, after the Packers show they are willing to welcome him back and are willing to risk permanently alienating their quarterback of the future, he pulls the rug out from under them saying he is going to stick with the decision to retire. So the Packers move on and conduct their draft feeling sure that Fawv-ruh is done. Then again, Fawv-ruh comes back and says he might want to play. And when the Packers ask how committed he is to coming back, he can’t give them a 100% commitment.
Fawv-ruh tries to make the Packers look bad by saying they won’t release him and just let him play for another team. Why should they release him? He is still under contract with the Packers through 2010 if he is reinstated. Instead of creating this mess, if he really wants to come back, Fawv-ruh should come back to the Packers as a backup. If he just wants to be around the game and satisfy that itch, then he should show some class and come back as a mentor to Rodgers and take a back seat to him. The only problem with that is if Rodgers struggles – at that point the Cheeseheads will cry for their beloved Fawv-ruh to start again. And if neither Fawv-ruh nor the Packers want him to be a backup to Rodgers, then the Packers should make every effort to trade him, as long as they can get decent value in return.
It doesn’t have to be a messy situation. It doesn’t have to be this big drama. But Fawv-ruh makes it a big drama where he is the center of attention. Which is why he is known as the Magic Johnson of the NFL – an aging star who craves the limelight and keeps putting himself back in the news after his time is done.