Story Created:
Jul 12, 2008
Story Updated:
Jul 12, 2008
Sharing the thoughts of great and much-loved blog-readers, just like you, on the Favre situation.
Jane Ledanski writes:
Random thoughts from a group of four Packer fans -- shared on the car ride to Miller Park last night (where everything was great but the final score). Anyway....
- One in the group recently spent $1,600 dollars on really bad seats to see Brett's number retired at Lambeau. She and her husband are now thinking of redecorating their Packer-themed basement by removing all #4 memorabilia.
- General theme of the discussion -- he retired and cried....time to grow-up and live with the consequences of his decision. And be a man...do it personally....not through Mommy or your brother.
- He decided -- the team accepted -- the team made key decisions based on his actions. This is a bell Brett rang and he can't un-ring it now.
- No good can come of this....all will be losers and Brett will be the biggest loser of all.
- Brett played for the Packers -- the Packers don't play for the Favres.
- Group concensus on key factors -- Brett made his decision; based on his decision, the Packers acted; Aaron Rodgers is now the starting QB; Green Bay cannot release Brett; there are teams for which Brett cannot be allowed to play.
- Group concensus on best outcome of this mess -- Packers don't release Brett, he becomes #4 on the depth chart. We'd all be shocked if he came to training camp in shape enough and with enough true fire to challenge for the top spot.
Bottom line....we're really tired of this annual drama. Brett is very close to ruining the good will built over years with the fans. He retired....time to go golfing.
...then there's this, from Bob Strazishar of Green Bay...
Self-professed "Queen of Everything" Cindy Lotzer wrote in:
I think that in this "superHype" media world that we live in this is just the new subject to be yacking about. Maybe if we ignore it, it will just go away. The man did his job here, he did it well and now it is time to hang up the cleats. Everyone has to let it go sometime. It is better to go out "on top of your game" than to look like a fool that you hung on to long. There is no fool like an old fool.
Yes, it must be hard to give up doing the only thing that you know since you were knee high to a grasshopper. Yes it is hard to give up the limelight, but wasn't he the guy who professed that he was going to go sit on his tractor and we weren't going to see him again??? I see him all over the place. He could put this all to rest by telling everyone "I AM DONE. WHAT DON'T YOU PEOPLE GET ABOUT DONE." Stop hiding like a sissy behind your brother and tell us your self. Isn't that what that tearful goodbye was all about?
I'd be the first to tell you that I will miss seeing him on Sunday afternoon. He made me want to give up everything else and curl up on the couch with my hubby, snacks and a cold Sprecker Root Beer. But won't it be fun to see the new guy work it out? Yes we will probably have a few lean years or maybe not. All of Favres targets are still there. Rogers just has to get them the ball.
In the mean time I am ignoring all things Favre and say: "GO BREWERS!!!" Lets live in the moment. I haven't been this geeked up about sports since '82.
Then there are the angry folk, like Tom Miller, who had no use for our vignette with Channel Four's Vinnie Vitrano the other day in which he posed the question, "How would you feel if the Packers were your sister and Brett Favre was the guy dating her"?
I have been listening to the local and national sports ‘experts’ mostly bashing one of the greatest QB’s to ever play.
Bashing to the point of total disrespect.
We even have 2 local WTMJ jerks airing some kind of comparison:
“What would you do if Brett Favre was dating your sister and treating her like he is treating the Packers????”
Does this have anything to do with a mans reputation or accomplishments or ability???
It brings out the childish immature stupidity of John Jagler and Gene Mueller.
What has either of you two hero’s done in your career to elevate your station so as to justify laughing and criticizing this man.
Shame on you.
After an exchange of e-mails, we've talked Tom down a bit and actually are cool with each other. But, this is the kind of passion this whole controversy is generating. Some Favre fans feel as though he's right, no matter what, and that the team should accomodate him.
I've been posting links to various newspaper columnists all week with their takes from their particular NFL cities. One guy in Dallas says Favre's indecision and potential Green Bay return would be the best thing that could happen to the Cowboys because of the way it would tip the Pack's apple cart. E-mailer Jim Bittner agrees:
I have always said that my all-star Packer quarterback is Bart
Starr. I have one main reason for that. Bart valued the possession of
the football and didn't take chances with it.
Bret of course is just the opposite. We know how many games he won
as a Packer. We have no idea of how many he should have won, given the
teams that he played with.
Bret certainly is the more colorful and attractive version of a Packer
quarterback, but efficiency wasn't his strong suit. I have felf for the
last three years that he was protecing his health more than worrying
about winning. He would no longer make headlong plunge into the end zone
at the end of a run or in an option situation. And last season showed
that he can't perform well in very cold weather. Being 67 years old I
understand that feeling very well.
I think the Packers have a real problem now if he wants to
return as an active player. They are damned if they take him back and
damned if they trade him or release him. Maybe someday the ordinary fan will know what is really going on between Ted Thompson, Mike McCarthy and Bret...it is too bad to see a
mess like this occur.
Jim speaks for us all...unless, of course, you have something to add. Fire it off to
mueller@620wtmj.com.
