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August 3, 2008
A few weeks ago addressing the shareholders meeting, Ted Thompson likened the Green Bay Packers to a family, so it’s appropriate, I guess, that one member of the family is headed home the same day as the team is holding its annual Family Night scrimmage. It should prove to be the most widely covered reunion […]
August 2, 2008
It has been well over 24 hours since anyone chartered a plane, ruled on reinstatement, extended or accepted a bribe personal services contract offer, or sent a text message to Ed Werder. All the parties involved — the Packers, Brett Favre, and Roger Goodell — have apparently agreed to put the unretirement drama on hiatus […]
July 31, 2008
When it’s a job.
Tom Silverstein reports at the JS Packers Blog that the $20 million payoff idea was actually a scheme proposed to Favre back in March that would pay No. 4 to make public appearances and take part in team marketing events. According to Silverstein, the Dolphins did something similar with Marino when he […]
This clip still haunts me. Maybe now even more so. “I think when training camp gets close, I will. Something’s bound to happen.”
It certainly did, Brett. It certainly did.
July 30, 2008
“Maybe he’s headed down there with a list of potential trading partners or just a briefcase full of money.”
It turns out Mark Murphy did take a big briefcase full of money on his trip to Hattiesburg, at least if WTMJ has its facts straight. The TV station is reporting tonight, according to two sources, that […]
Buried in an article today from Tom Silverstein and Greg Bedard is this potentially potent observation: Of concern to the Packers would be an injury to Favre during training camp that would sideline him for the season, thereby leaving the Packers liable for his $12 million base salary.
With Mark Murphy down in Mississippi to make peace […]
Team president Mark Murphy boarding a private jet for Hattiesburg in the dead of night? I doubt the action at Mugshots is worth a three hour flight, so my guess is he’s heading up a peace delegation to smooth things out with our soon-to-be formerly retired quarterback. Chris Mortensen was reporting earlier tonight on ESPN […]
July 29, 2008
In the movie version of Brett Favre’s life, this scene opens with a tracking shot, the camera zooming in towards a lonely fax machine somewhere in the offices of the National Football League. The machine comes to life, blips and bloops, and spits out a sheet of paper. The camera closes in on the white […]
July 27, 2008
Peter King is fulfilling his destiny at last. After years of fawning over Brett Favre and cultivating his close relationship with the future Hall of Fame quarterback, King is right where he should be reporting from inside the Favre compound during the (hopefully) final few days of this sports soap opera. His dispatch today from […]
July 25, 2008
ESPN is reporting that the Green Bay Packers have given the New York Jets permission to talk to Brett Favre about a possible trade deal and that Tampa is also in the running. I’m guessing that there was some narrowing of the list this week and, as Aaron at Cheesehead TV points out, the Jets […]