Watching the local news tonight, it appears the plotline was thick in trying to get the Moss deal done. I have to go to bed, so I’ll just cover the highlights:
Brett Favre and Randy Moss have the same agent, Bus Cook. This matters because it opens an avenue of communication that may not ordinarily be available when trying to get a deal done.
Brett Favre wanted Randy Moss. Really bad. He said the behind the scenes discussions were to the point that $3 million and a 4th round pick would have put Moss in green (considerably less than the $10 million the Patriots gave Moss).
Favre was willing to redo his own deal, diverting money from his own pay to allow the Packers to guarantee that $3 million.
Favre was pissed off enough when the deal didn’t go through that he called Mike McCarthy and/or Ted Thompson and told them that since they don’t want to bring in the talent needed to win, in his final season he’ll try something he’s always wanted to do: quarterback an entire season left-handed.
Actually, I made that up. Something I didn’t make up? In Favre’s anger he told Thompson he wanted to be traded and should look for another quarterback in his butt, since that seems to be where he finds everything else for this team.*
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*Actually, I made up the “in his butt” part, too. Unfortunately, I didn’t make up the “look for another quarterback” part. Like I said, he was pissed.