Favre Considers One More Year…heh heh
For those of you who have been regular Dollard Readers for more than 6 months, you’ll know that NFL Football season is big around here. We have Sunday Night Bashage and Monday Night Bashage! Oh! And the occasional Thursday Night Bashage, too! And we have a lot of fun discussing the games here as they are played.
I’ve been a fan all of my life, my first football game I ever went to was on New Years Eve 1967, it was in the Oakland Coliseum and my Dad and my Grandpa and my Uncle took me and my cousins to see our Oakland Raiders (I was born in Oakland) annihilate the Houston Oilers, the score was something like 50-3 or some shit, complete blowout.
The Raiders had a rookie assistant coach that year, linbacker coach, I think…what was his name?
…oh yeah, John Madden.
Been a fan ever since. My heart always belongs to the Raiders and the Niners , but I am an all-around fan of great players as well.
This includes Brett Favre. Despite a few NFC Championship and/or playoff games vs the Niners, I have always enjoyed watching Favre play. He’s a true all-pro, and one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play, after Montana and Stabler, of course.
His teary retirement conference earlier this year was rough on him, you could tell the guy didn’t want to.
I had a feeling he’d be back.
It’ll be cool if he plays one more season. really cool.
This appeared on the wires today:
GREEN BAY, Wis. - Brett Favre is considering coming out of retirement, according to an ESPN report. ESPN’s Chris Mortensen said Wednesday a Green Bay Packers source told him the 38-year-old Favre told coach Mike McCarthy in the past two weeks that he has the itch to play.
The Packers’ former quarterback retired March 6 after a 17-year career.
Cornerback Al Harris said on ESPN’s NFL Live that Favre also made similar comments to him.
“I know he has the itch to come back and play,” Harris said. “If he will or not, I don’t know.”
The Packers had planned to use Aaron Rodgers as their quarterback for the upcoming season.
“Aaron is our quarterback,” Harris said. “Brett’s retired. But if he wanted to come back, there would be some guys who wouldn’t mind it. I would welcome him back with open arms.”
Mortensen also said his source told him the Packers would be reluctant to open the door for Favre because “Brett retired for the right reasons, even though I know his family is tugging on him (to play).”
A message left with the Packers was not immediately returned.
Favre has two years left on his contract at an average of about $12.5 million per season. The Packers placed him on the reserve-retired list in the spring so his salary does not now count toward the cap.
Favre’s commitment to retirement has been questioned since his announcement. That talk resumed in mid-June when Favre withdrew from the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship at Lake Tahoe, scheduled for July 11-13.
Tournament spokesman Steve Griffith said then that Favre had to miss the event because of a scheduling conflict.
When he retired, a teary Favre said, “I’ve given everything I possibly could give to this organization, the game of football, and I don’t think I’ve got anything left to give And that’s it. I know I can play. But I don’t think I want to.”
But less than two months later, he told reporters he might be open to returning if Rodgers was injured.
Favre is the NFL’s only three-time MVP and leads the league with 442 touchdown passes, 61,655 yards passing and 160 career victories. He started 253 consecutive regular-season games, more than any other quarterback in history. Including the playoffs, his streak stands at 275.
(AP)
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