Brett Favre just won’t die

July 2nd, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

Seriously: he’s up to his old tricks again. Please read:

ESPN’s Chris Mortensen is reporting that Favre has told Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy that he has thought about playing this year. Although Favre’s comeback talk is apparently in its preliminary stages, Mortensen also reports that Favre’s family is encouraging him to play.

Packers cornerback Al Harris appeared with Mortensen on ESPN’s NFL Live this afternoon and said that Favre has told him that he “has the itch” to keep playing.

What. The. Eff. Look: I like Brett Favre the player. And he seems like a great dude. But this mamby pamby retirement drama is a bit ridiculous. Yeah, we are free to change our minds. And yeah, he probably could still have a pretty good year next year. But when comments start dropping like this, I shudder at the thought of No. 4 coming back for another year:

2. PLEASE MAY MY YEAR BRETT AND COME BACK YOU ARE THE BOMB AND ILL ALWAYS BE YOUR NUMBER 1 FAN FOREVER AND A DAY

Posted at 4:27PM on Jul 2nd 2008 by debbie

Sigh.

Brett Favre, same as he ever was

May 27th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

Brett Favre’s retirement presser back in March was great, insomuch as in the following months, nobody is still 100 percent sure he hung up the cleats for good or not. The second-guessing and maybes have run rampant. Favre is so mysterious; he’s a magician. Why, just watch out for his latest trick in which his locker still exists at Lambeau Field. From Jason Wilde at On Milwaukee:

WILDE: How come Favre’s locker is still intact?

McCARTHY: Who do you want me to put in there?

WILDE: I don’t know. But isn’t it just a locker?

McCARTHY: I think it’s more than a locker, and there’s some plans for the locker that will be addressed in the future. But there’s nothing else to it. I wouldn’t want his locker, especially after his hygiene, my goodness. It’s a locker of a very special player in the history of our organization, and there are some plans for the future, and we’ll address that when it comes. I’ll just leave it at that.

[ … ]

I still think it’s just a locker, and Favre didn’t die, he retired. Put ex-University of Wisconsin punter Kenny DeBauche, who grew up in Green Bay, in it, and it’s a story for one day. DeBauche talks about how cool it is to have Favre’s locker, and then, after that, it’s not Favre’s locker anymore. It’s DeBauche’s. And then someone else’s down the road.

The approach just seems so incongruous with everything else they’ve done since the news of Favre’s retirement broke on March 4, since everything from planning his jersey retirement to taking two quarterbacks in the draft sends the message that the team is moving on, despite Favre’s second-guessing.

I’m in complete agreement with Wilde here and as he states earlier in his piece, it does a bit of a disservice to Aaron Rodgers. Dude is going to have a hard enough time as it is trying to do any justice to the position of quarterback in Green Bay. Although, I guess Rodgers could just grab those shoulder pads, throw on a Favre No. 4 jersey and fool everything into thinking he is Favre. It will be just like when William Shears Campbell replaced Paul McCartney in the Beatles after Paul died in a car crash. Except, that never really happened.

Yeah: Rodgers is effed anyway you slice this one. Good luck though, Aaron!

That kid finally took off his Favre jersey

May 6th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

Remember the kid who wore his Brett Favre jersey for like, a bazillion days in a row? Well he finally took it off after 1,581 days. Apparently it was getting a bit short on him — wasn’t quite making the waistline anymore. Congratulations are in order. It’s not every day you find that kind of dedication  out of a 12-year-old.

So you know what this means, right? Favre is officially done. Not coming back. Nope not now. Not ever. Thank you social outcast boy, for making it so.

Brett Favre is back!

February 28th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanE

To talking about retiring! Or maybe actually retiring! Or something!

Thanks to blog bestie Chris Mottram at the Sporting Blog, above is a screenshot of the Packers official Web site from earlier in the day. (Now it requires a password. Who knows.) So either Brett Farve is retiring, or one of the poor bastards Packers.com got to be an intern is getting a merciful pink slip today.

Update: According to the Sporting Blog, the Packers PR guy is saying this is a standard story they prepare every winter. That’s funny in and of itself, I think.

Reinventing the cheesehead

January 11th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

So we got the divisional round of the playoffs this weekend, and according to most, it is the most exciting and thrilling of all the rounds. (Football: Ruff! Ruff! Grr! Grr!) And because of this, I’d like to direct your attention to this man to your right. You see, when he sculpted the Seahawk logo into that cheesehead there, it was not to mock the Packers. In fact, it turns out he likes both squads.

“I went to high school in the Milwaukee area, I went to college at UW-Eau Claire, and all the time growing up our family never had the financial means to go to a Packers game,” said Drentonoch.

The bad news is that 20 years ago, Darrell moved to Seattle.

“I became a Seahawks fan shortly after I got here, but my heart is still with the Packers,” claims Drentonoch.

Darrell is thrilled to be making his way to this Saturday’s playoff game, and he’s doing his best to honor his loyalty to Green Bay and Seattle by donning a very original hat.

“It’s a combination of a cheesehead and a Seahawk,” Drentonoch states.

“I thought it might be an appropriate way to show my support for both teams.”

Yeah it’s ugly. But I’ll take it any day over Laura Quinn’s hybrid jersey.

{Via Fark.}