Packers Offer Favre $20 Million to Go Away
Being fortunate enough to work from home, I’ll admit I see my fair share of soap operas. None of them approach the real life drama playing out in Green Bay, where ESPN is reporting the Green Bay Packers will pay Brett Favre $20 million to not let the door hit him where the Good Lord split him.
It’s a public relations nightmare for the Packers, who are taking a beating for not letting Favre follow up one of the best seasons of his career. This debacle makes the way San Francisco kicked Joe Montana to the curb look like Love Story by comparison.
Favre isn’t blameless. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports he unretired once already during the offseason, then retired again. It’s highly possible at this point Favre is taking career advice from George Foreman. Favre’s pressuring the team for trades with division rivals Chicago and Minnesota being leading candidates. Right now, $20 million must seem like a bargain. Packers brass would probably pay twice that much to get John Madden to stop calling them at all times of the night in tears.
At the time of this posting, Favre was said to be “seriously weighing the offer.” Gee, ya think? I’m guessing his wife is helping him weigh it. On the flip side, readers, how nice must it be to have so much money a decision like this isn’t a no-brainer?
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By the way, my friends in Wisconsin say this is playing out VERY DIFFERENT on the local news there. Things that the national news isn’t reporting. Makes it even more interesting.
It is really wild. And I feel compelled to add he’s on the cover of John Madden football. Ooo-wweee-oo!