Vikings vs. Packers  

See I disagree with the reasoning that Favre left Green Bay. It is no secret that the administration saw Aaron Rodgers coming in and felt that Favre was getting too old. I do not feel that someone of Favre's calibur should be a back up for anyone! I believe that had he stayed at Green Bay that this is exactly what would have happened.
I don't think he had any intentions of ever retiring, but had to go through the motions in order to play for the team he really wanted to be traded to in the first place!

True, but you don't think it's a shame to see Favre beat Green Bay at 40 YEARS OLD, IN GREEN BAY? It's a shame to me, and a disgrace to Packer fans.

Ok...I hope you won't think I'm hateful for this...but you see it's this way. I'm a die hard Cowboys fan...and quite frankly I love it when Green Bay gets beat by anyone! LOL
I know, my nephew says that I need to find a new team to root for, but it's one of the things I have left of my dad. Before he passed away in 2004, we always watched the Dallas game and then we'd call each other after the game and go into our "Armchair Quarterback" mode picking apart the game and deciding what we'd have done differently if we were Jimmy Johnson or Troy Aikman!

Yeah, I'm watching too! There are a few fans with signs that say "Welcome back Brett". But I did see some fans with his number 4 printed on it with a Big Red line through it.
I have not liked Aaron Rodgers from the day he came into Green Bay. Not sure why...just something about him that rubs me the wrong way! I believe if Favre had stayed at Green Bay, he would have been forced to play back up and he's too good for that...Even at 40!

It's now 31-26, 5:38 to go. An exciting game. I can't seem to get up and take a leak. I've been glued to the TV.

I'm playing Fantasy Football with my husband, sons and some of their friends. One of the guys has his team loaded with packer players. He was supposed to win, and ended up getting killed because Favre did so good! (He had the Packers defense too!)

Thanks for the BR!

I completely agree with you about him being run out. It was very obvious that the administration wanted him GONE. I felt bad because the Vikings wanted him, and the Packers were being Butts about it. He had to retire from both the Packers and the Giants in order to keep Green Bay from suing him for Breach of Contract!
Tacky...Tacky...Tacky.

I bet if he ever plays the Jets in their home field they won't boo like the Packers did.

The Jets fans didn't even know how good they had it with Favre at the time. I mean the guy played hurt and no one knew it until this season when he was gone. I've always associated the NFL Packer fans and the St. Louis Cardinals fans as the classiest in sports, football and baseball respectively. But I can't say that for the Packers anymore...

I agree! I think the Jets blew it by not giving Favre a chance to shine. But my husband says they had the totally wrong offense for Favre and they were just helping him out by giving him the year on the team so he could go to Minnesota.
I know my nephew is a huge Packer fan, and even he was disappointed in the fans reaction.
It reminds me of the old saying "Having your cake and eating it too." Packer fans don't want him...but they don't want anyone else to have him either.

I still feel that Favre knew his days at Green Bay were numbered. In order to continue to play the game that he loved so much, he had to go somewhere else. I don't understand the concept of out with the old and in with the new when the old isn't broken. Perhaps they felt bad about all the money they were paying Aaron Rodgers to simply sit on the bench?

My question to you would be this: If he had said "They're trying to force me out" who would have believed it and how many would have simply thought he had his underwear in a wad and trying to get the pity of the Packers fans?
It reminds me alot of when Houston Nutt left Arkansas. I didn't want him to go, but I certainly would not have booed him when he entered Razorback stadium for the first time as the coach of Old Miss!

Nobody knows for sure what would have happened but I definitely got the impression at the time he first talked about retiring, that he was doing it of his own accord. He was saying things like he was having a harder time getting himself up to the level of play that he needed to be coming from the off season, he wasn't sure he could still get to that level, etc. I felt he was feeling like he wanted to retire and he changed his mind in the off season and decided to come back.

Now, if he was telling management this, they have to start planning for his retirement and bring up his replacement. When he changes his mind, it delays the plan and puts his replacement on hold for another season. If he does this a second time, now it starts to become a problem. If you're the guy that's going to be his replacement, how many times would you want to plan on being the QB only to have it ripped away just before the season starts? How long would you stick around and put up with that? As management, how would you handle the problem? At some point you'd have to go with the new QB or you'll lose him to another team. He won't wait around forever with the clock ticking on his career. It's a hard decision to make but at some point, you have to commit.

Was Favre honestly considering retirement on his own and changed his mind (twice) or was management simply forcing him out because they thought he'd reached his peak and his ability was winding down? I think if he was definitely committed to keep playing and they were just forcing him out against his will, he could have said so up front. He simply could have stated that he wanted to keep playing for the Packers but management wanted to go with a new QB so he may have to go to another team to continue playing football. If he would have said that, the Packer fans would have been on his side and I think would have understood.

I don't really know which scenario is true, maybe a little of both, but I can see both sides.

I really can too. I know that Favre seems to have alot of class. He has not said anything negative about the Packers that I've heard. I don't think he would have publicly admitted that he was being forced out even if that is the case. Everything is merely speculation at this point. I'm just going to enjoy watching him whiz the ball downfield and know that old doesn't equal washed up!

ha! Are you certain you aren't my nephew? LOL This sounds like the same speech he gave me on Sunday afternoon after the game! In a way I can see how they felt. It would have been like Troy Aikman going to the Packers! I'm glad to see that some Packers fan still had class and didn't boo Favre though. I just thought that was totally useless. All that did was hurt him and his family.I can't imagine how his children felt hearing their dad getting booed in the city where they'd been born and raised!

I don't know much about the Packer's coach, but I do agree that they let Brett go earlier than they should. But was this a coaching decision or an adminstrative one? There has been some questioning among some that I'm playing fantasy football with that perhaps pushing Favre out was a concession that the owners made to Rodgers when they drafted him.