Brett Favre is seriously damaging his legacy

As many of you know, Brett Favre, the golden boy of football for the past 16 years for the Green Bay Packers has decided to come out of retirement after his tearful and heartfelt goodbye to the sport. He stated that he couldn’t see himself giving the dedication needed to play football. I am a huge Brett Favre fan. He may have beaten the team I liked as a young kid, the 49ers, but it was impossible to dislike him. The good old boy from Mississippi was simply a good guy you liked cheering for. I’ve always loved turning on the TV and watching games at Lambeau, with Favre leading the Pack to victory. When he announced his retirement I was very dissapointed and sad, I still felt he had a year or two left in him and really was ready for the end of the Brett Favre era. My admiration for Favre is becoming less and less after hearing of the events that have passed. Favre retired in early march, but within 3 weeks of this announcement he was having second thoughts and was ready to come out of retirement. The Packers were so sure of this that they were ready to fly down to his farm in Mississippi, hold a press conference stating that he was indeed coming back. This changed just as GM Ted Thompson and Coach Mike McCarthy were heading to the airport, where Favre went back again, and decided to stay retired. He then continued to think about it, but left the Packers thinking, he was done. The Packers, decided to move on and draft quarterbacks to replace him or at least, be the back up for Aaron Rodgers, who has waited 4 years to get his chance. So off the Pack went with there off season program. Getting Rodgers ready to become starter with new draftees Brian Brohm and Matt Flynn coming in to fight for the backup job and pressure Rodgers. Then, with training camps opening up shortly, Favre decided he was ready to commit to football. He could not have picked a worse time for his announcement. He states he doesn’t want to come back with the Pack and take Rodgers job. This does sound admiral, until you think of the position Favre has put Rodgers in. Unless he comes out and puts up numbers that Favre did, he will either be pulled from the starter role for the “backup” quarterback Favre, or if Favre is traded, he will be hated by Packer faithful for knowing they had the chance to have Favre back.

He also puts the Packer brass in an awkward position. If you think about it, the decision to make is simple. Bring back Favre as the starting QB, but surely there getting tired of his indecisions to retire or not retire every year. Even possibly the Packer faithful are as well. A rally was held today by fans to keep Brett Favre, but after completing the highlight pack for it tonight, and seeing less than 200 people show up for the protest, it makes you wonder if there tired of the act aswell. The best case solution is that he gets traded. There’s no way he gets released, why would they do that, so he can burn them playing for division rivals the Vikings or Bears? And lets say he does get traded, after all those years in Green Bay, it just doesn’t feel right for him to retire in another uniform, Plus, unless he wins a Super Bowl with that team, he will go down as the Michael Jordan of football. Jordan looked foolish going to the Wizards. Granted he was the owner of the team and he helped ticket sales, but how did he get repaid for that. Once he retired for good, he was sent his walking papers from majority owner Abe Pollin.

Hopefully some kind of solution can be made, but if it doesn’t turn out the way Brett wants it to, he has only one person to blame. Himself.

Ozel