Brett Favre Update!

Thank you Peter King.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/peter_king/07/07/favre/index.html?eref=T1

Thank you for updating me on where Brett Favre stands in his "retirement." How much pillow talk did it take?

No. 4 wants to play football again, and the Green Bay Packers desperately do not want him to.

Let's make one thing clear real early. There is no difference in what Brett Favre is doing and what Javon Walker, Terrell Owens, and Chad Johnson have done and gotten grilled in the media for in the past. He is holding the organization and fans hostage. It is unfair to expect an entire organization to bend to your demands just because you were good for them for 15 years. They have to prepare for life after you and they have. Deal with it.

They can take Favre and his $12.8-million cap number back onto the team and give him his starting job back, they can trade him or they can release him.

Here are two other options:

1. Favre quits acting like a Vicodin fueled little bitch and stays retired.
2. The Packers let him un-retire, and then have him as their emergency third string QB or a backup for the entire season and fine him every chance they get when he speaks out.

It's obvious Favre could give a shit about the Packers, why should they give a shit about him?

Neither Favre nor the Packers have the balls to do either of these, so I say release him. I would be interested to see how much interest he draws.

I've been told an edgy McCarthy told Favre, in their most recent phone conversation a couple of weeks ago, the legendary quarterback would put the Packers in a tough spot by reneging on his March 6 retirement. Favre understands. But I don't think it's going to stop him from doing what his body tells him to do -- play football again.

Did the Packers pay Favre to play football or did he do it all for charity? Again, he made millions from the Packers who stood by him through drug addiction and his overratedness throughout his career. Favre understands, but he doesn't care, that should tell anyone on the Packers enough right there.

In the past few years, Favre has begun to prepare for training camp by throwing to high-school receivers at Oak Grove High School in Hattiesburg, Miss., and when he's done that in the past month, his arm has felt pain-free and strong.

His ability to play football was never in question, don't make excuses Peter.

That, plus the fact he hasn't found anything else to do in retirement other than the chores on his 465 acres in Hattiesburg, is making him think he wants to play football again.

Oh yeah, that big farm all the money the Packers paid him helped pay for. So he is bored and that is the reason to make the Packer's life Hell? Seriously, could this guy be any more selfish. I want to scream it from a roof top until my lungs bleed. How does no one see this?

The one thing I don't believe Favre understands yet is the tumult which will greet his return to the Packers, or to another NFL team. There are Packer fans who have moved on, and wish he would do the same.

There are millions of football fans who wish he would move on as well. Don't forget us.

They've happily proceeded through the off-season preparing the 24-year-old successor to Favre, Aaron Rodgers, to take his place, and they don't want their grand plan interrupted now. It's quite understandable.

You mean they have not spent an entire off season begging Favre to come back? How dare they! He needs to be loved and have his balls cupped by 39 virgins in a garden filled with bouquets of flowers and they dared not pay heed to his whims? I still say let him unretire and sit on the bench all year. And, it is not a "grand plan," it is "the entire fucking reason they drafted Aaron Rodgers."

If I were Rodgers, and I'd already waited through three years without starting a game, and Favre returned, I know what I'd tell McCarthy. That's fine, Mike. But I will never sign another contract with the Packers. After 2009, whatever happens, I'm gone.

He would also be completely in the right. Also, what about Matt Flynn and Brian Brohm, both QB's who have potential to be decent players in the league? The Packers have completely prepared for life after Favre because they did not think he was a liar. Brett Favre only gives a shit about himself and it has been that way ever since he started these hostage negotations with the Packers every summer for the past four years.

That's not the only reason why McCarthy and Thompson are scared. There are two more, actually.

I'm scared I will have to hear more about Brett Favre.

Say they accept Favre back, then try to trade him. They're going to get, what, a third-round pick from Tampa Bay or the New York Jets or Washington for him? They'll forever be known as the men who sent the greatest Packer packing.

The greatest Packer? Bart Starr needs to see you in his office right now.

And there's no guarantee Favre would agree to go to just any team if he chooses to come back. Don't put it past him and agent Bus Cook to refuse to report to a team Favre doesn't want to play for.

Is there a way Favre could be a bigger dick? He retires, the team dares to go on without him believing that his is not an incredible liar, he decides he wants to come back, the Packers allow him to do so but tell him they have moved on without him so they attempt to trade him so he can play again like he wants, and Favre pisses and moans like a five year old at who he is getting traded to.

You know how he can prevent going to a team he does not want to play for?

Stay retired. What a novel concept.

Two: Say the Packers allow Favre his freedom, which I think ultimately is what Favre wants if he doesn't get his starting job back in Green Bay.

I will offer $100 to the first journalist who fires off a column calling Brett Favre selfish and absolutely skewering him for being a little cry baby.

The smartest thing for the Packers to do right now, if Favre continues to charge ahead and insist he wants to play, would be for McCarthy and Thompson to meet with Favre in the next 10 days and try to convince him not to play.

Well of course, but you have already stated this will not work.

I don't think it would work, particularly because I don't sense Favre is feeling all warm and fuzzy about Packer brass right now. But Favre's an emotional sort.

What the hell has the "Packer brass" done to Brett Favre except bend over for his each and every wish over the past four years? He bitched about the team last year and said they needed more offensive weapons and then the only reason they did not make the Super Bowl is because he threw an interception in overtime. Those are the facts.

Did he did not feel wanted by the Packers? Maybe they were tired of your holding the team hostage every summer with your flip flopping on whether you were going to retire or not. He should have no negative feelings for the Packers. Imagine if they flip flopped every summer on getting him good offensive players, he would complain to the media every chance he got. There is no difference in Chad Johnson and Brett Favre.

Final point: I keep hearing Favre was pushed into retirement by the Packers demanding an early decision this off-season, or by Thompson not showing him enough love. He might feel that way, but I think it's nonsense.

Thank you. It is nonsense and I am glad Peter King can see it that way. I feel strongly about this for whatever reason. I just think it is dumb for the media to treat Favre like he is royalty when he is one of the most self absorbed stars ever to play the game of football. Also, the Packers have every right to ask him to make a quick decision, let's not forget that.

If he's not, the Packers are not to blame. He is. He'll have to take the consequences for returning, either in Green Bay (where he shouldn't expect a hug from Rodgers) or elsewhere.

If Packer fans can't see what a douche Favre is then they are morons. If I were Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre showed up at camp, I would punch him in his grizzled, three day old unshaven face and then demand a trade.

Brett Favre is selfish, more people need to see this.