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You ever get the feeling that Brett Favre is trying to be John Lovitz’s Tommy Flanagan?

“So I had the surgery, and then uh, yeah, a Minnesota Vikings trainer just happened to show up at my house to help me rehab it.  Yeah, that’s the ticket.”

“And I get email all the time, telling me I’m great.  Yeah, that’s it. ”

I watched the Joe Buck interview (here’s parts one and two, if they’re still up on Youtube).  You’ll have to have seen it if what I’m about to say is going to make any sense.

I’ll try to make this kill swift and painless:

Green Bay didn’t name the Superbowl trophy, the league did.  Lombardi only ever lost one playoff game, and the trophy was named after him because he won 7 league championships and his persona transcended the game.  Brett Favre won only one, gave away one and cost the team a trip to a third, and his persona, that of hillbilly diva, is at best going to net him his name on a building at some 13th grade school in Mississippi.

Favre told Greta Van Susteren a year ago that the reason he wanted to go to the Vikings was to play in the division to have a chance to stick it to his former team and Ted Thompson.  Any variations from that story now can only be considered spin doctoring.  The “lure of a team with a chance to make a deep playoff run” has been played.  The Jets were considered to be loaded for the Superbowl when Favre got there.  Now they have a new coaching staff and a rookie swimsuit model under center.

Favre and his agent lied about the phonecalls to Bevel and Childress last year.  Favre lied to the Jets when he asked for his release.  He gave an oscar-worthy performance when he retired the first time, when all along he was plotting his revenge.  He lied to Trent Dilfer via text message (ok, I’d probably lie to Dilfer to, just to fuck with him).

I think the only thing you can ever believe from Favre anymore is what’s out on the field.  What he gives between the hashes is honest and pure.  Sometimes it’s ugly and gut-wrenching, and he can’t give as much as he could a decade ago, but it is the true Favre.  Everything else about him?  Bullshit.

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I honestly don’t know why people send me these.

I’m pretty sure they’ve never read the blog before.  They just Google Green Bay Packers blog and >poof<!  There I am.  And they figure they can probably get some free pub out of me if their announcement or breaking news item has anything to do with the Packers.

Sometimes they’re right.  Like today, for example.

I got an email from Jamaila Cuentas today on behalf of an online fashion magazine that looked like an accident at the intersection of Metrosexual and Dieter from Sprockets.  In this month’s edition they did a multi-page photoshoot and interview with the man of a thousand poses, Green Bay Packers running back Ryan Grant.

Here he is showing us his look called Le Tigre:

And here’s Blue Steel:

And then he unleashed his Magnum:

And he pulled off these myriad looks all while wearing the same pair of red Skechers sneakers.  Bravo, Mr. Grant!  Brav-oh!  Mugatu’s gonna have a place for you in his new Derelicte line, I’m sure of it.

Grant did come off looking like a genius in the interview portion of the pageant interview, and I’m wondering if it’s because compared to Grant, it appeared the interviewer hadn’t received her ESL certificate yet.

From page 8 of the eModa article:

MM: What are some of your career goals?
Grant: None… j/k… I am doing real estate stuff already…
NFL or Plan B, C - He once stated that if he didn’t play football he would’ve went into real estate or finance.
MM: Do you still have plans of going into real estate in the future?
Grant: I’m already working in real estate, I kind of just deal with residential stuff right now.

I feel like I just got off the tilt-a-whirl. Is the room spinning? Did I hear somewhere that Ryan Grant had interest in real estate?

I think I’m gonna hurl.  ‘Scuse me.

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It seems the ESPN sports journalists have been falling for some of the simplest tricks in the book when it comes to unverified stories and fact checking.

Ed Werder recently reported that Brett Favre had yet to file his “unretirement” papers. Yeah, funny thing about that. He never filed retirement papers. He was still under contract with the Jets - that’s why he had to ask to be released from that contract. Sure, he said he was retiring, but unless the words came with a signed fax to Roger Goodell’s office, you and I both know it was meaningless. ESPN is like the daffy mutt that keeps falling for your feigned throw of the tennis ball. Go get it, boy!

Then ESPN, Werder, et al reported that the Vikings were backing away from Favre because he didn’t report for OTA’s. Uh, why would someone not under contract with the Vikings need to show for the Vikings OTA’s? And shouldn’t that have been Ed Werder’s first question? Kinda like when you see that slightly masculine woman in fishnets at the street corner - you just automatically know to ask her before you chat her up - “You a cop?” I mean, come on! Basic journalism, man!

I guess we’ll just have to expect the boys at ESPN to keep falling for simplest of tricks Favre, Cook and Childress have up their sleeves.

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