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Your weekly Favre unretirement update

Posted on April 10th, 2008 – 11:20 AM
By Michael Rand

favremadden.jpgWhile many of you no doubt have heard the latest bit of waffling from the One Who Has Fun, we just can’t help ourselves in throwing it out there again. Our instinct the morning after he “retired,” when our newspaper published three pages of very good stories, was “This is great, but what are we going to do the next time he retires.” Seems as though we’re just one Aaron Rodgers injury away from that. And, considering Rodgers hasn’t exactly been durable in his very limited action, well, you connect the dots. From the Sun-Herald in Biloxi, which currently features a top news update of, “It may rain today.”

When asked if he would return to football if the Packers called because of team injuries, Favre said: “It would be hard to pass up, I guess. But three months from now, say that presents itself, I may say, you know what, I’m so glad I made that decision. I’m feel very comfortable in what I’m doing and my decision.

“Yeah, I can probably be up there doing that and playing, but again, I don’t know. It’s only speculating. I think the world of that team. I had a lot of fun, not only this year, but over my career. Those guys I played with this past year, a lot of young guys, a lot of fun.

“I think of that, when I think of now being retired, I think I won’t be in the quarterback/receiver meeting on Thursdays joking around and having fun and game plan and all that stuff together. It was a fun year. That was fun throwing the ball around like we did. There’s no reason to think that won’t happen again. Aaron has fallen into a great situation. And if that opportunity presented itself and they did call, it would be tempting. And I very well could be enticed to do it.”

Translation: If anybody wants to put some banana peels at the bottom of Aaron Rodgers’ stairway, be Brett’s guest.

5 Responses to "Your weekly Favre unretirement update"

Stu says:

April 10th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

The folks at Goodbye Brett Favre will be pleased to know this.

(Seriously, you all need to visit that website if you haven’t already. The Sporting Blog had a piece on this yesterday, and it’s apparently sincere.)

roughkat says:

April 10th, 2008 at 1:22 pm

If anyone wants to reach down #4’s banana hammock, Madden is first in line.

jama says:

April 10th, 2008 at 4:45 pm

Today is actually John Madden’s Birthday. Maybe Favre just wants to give Madden one last present.

Johnny boy turns 72 years old today.

Tom says:

April 10th, 2008 at 9:45 pm

If Aaron Rodgers is being treated at a Green Bay hospital a simple hamstring pull may turn into a sudden loss of limb!!! Green Bay would love to see another season with #4!