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Looky here. How long did it take Randy Moss to get into trouble with his new team - 23 minutes?

[Edit: Ooops. Wrong Randy Moss. Honest mistake. ]

Or maybe he has a heart that’s been stuffed too full of artery-clogging cheese. John Jones, the relatively newly minted president and COO of your Green Bay Packers, is going to take an indefinite leave of absence to “recharge his batteries.”

This is the same president that just a few weeks after he landed the job as the head cheese in Titletown promptly had a heart attack and went on injured reserve for several months. (A few weeks after he had the multiple bypass surgery he did an interview for one of the local news stations, with the wires from a heart monitor sticking out of the bottom of his shirt.)

According to Peter Platten, speaking on behalf of the Packers Executive Committee, said: “We determined that it would be mutually beneficial for John to take a leave of absence while we continue our evaluation of the situation and collectively determine next steps,” said Platten. “John will be on leave until the Executive Committee and John conclude that process.”

So after getting the job roughly a year ago, and only serving his duties in the job for a few months, he’s leaving again, this time at the request of the executive committee.

I don’t speak Japanese, but I’m pretty sure that’s code for “Sayonara, Mr. Jones.”

Bob Harlan will continue to serve as CEO/COO/President until the next one can be selected Jones can recharge his battery.

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I’m not sure if you felt it yesterday, but the earth briefly stopped spinning at around 12:30pm CST, right around the time that Brett Favre held a press conference in an attempt to wash the dirty laundry that had been hung out on the line at 1265 Lombardi Avenue.

As is Wisconsin protocol for amber alerts, a presidential address and spoken words from 3-time MVP QB’s, all programming across our state was interrupted so that Favre could discuss the accrued hard feelings thanks to the Randy Moss non-deal. In a brief statement before he took questions from reporters, Favre said that never at any point did he request to be traded from the Packers, and that he had no idea where that rumor came from. He said that yes, he was frustratred, but that was as far as it went.

All I can say is, ladies, this is football. This is not the President surgically selecting words to disclose that there is an Extinction Level Event coming next week, trying to put it in a way that won’t result in us running through the streets, killing each other over a pound of baloney before the asteroid even hits.

Over the course of the week, for those who didn’t listen to any sports blah-blah last week, Favre had made it clear that he wasn’t coming to this first mini-camp, opting instead to take the time to plan for his daugher’s graduation. This was generally interpreted as Favre channeling diva Celine Dion. Later in the week Favre was reported as having changed his plans to attend the minicamp. This was generally interpreted as Favre not liking being compared to Celine Dion.

After that he pooped, and the toilet paper used to wipe up is currently priced at $489.36 on eBay.

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