Hey Favre lovers…  You just know that if this team wasn’t owned by the city, and instead had it’s deed placed in the personal safe of an insanely greedy wealthy business man, this whole Favre thing wouldn’t be going on.  He’d be in camp, throwing heaters to Driver, Jennings, Jones, Robinson and Martin.

How’s that possible?  Lemme explain.  If you’ve ever worked for and seen the upper levels of management work in a corporation, you know how this Favre thing probably played out.  I know Ted Thompson is the GM, but this is such an important, high profile thing that you know upper level Packer management has been in on it. Mark Murphy flew down to Mississippi to present the most recent offer to Favre, so you can be sure that anyone with a VP in their title has been involved.

But think about your time spent in Corporate America.  In mine, if there was a meeting to decide on something, once one pig-headed exec had it in his head that something should happen, he’d usually steamroll a couple colleagues.  The small group now held enough power to push through a decision.  And in Corporate America, once the decision is made, the bay doors have been closed and locked.  That bomb is delivering it’s payload. You can’t reverse gravity, pry open the belly of that B-52 and re-nestle that missile of destruction. There’s no recalling of executives to another meeting to hear an emotional appeal for reconsideration; executives have all sorts of mechanisms to prevent a meeting like that from ever occuring.  Insurmountable scheduling conflicts that pit that meeting against an upcoming “team building” session, for example.  Or the reprioritization of other issues over this one.  Straight up intimidation.  That meeting will never, ever happen.  Bomb’s away!

But if this team was owned by someone like Jerry Jones?  Dan Snyder?  Al Davis?  *shudder*  They could take the pulse of the community and decide by themselves that the happiness of the market might be worth the upheaval of the franchise.  They’d place a couple calls, and poof!  Favre’s in uniform, in camp, doing up-downs, giving fellow team members chicken bites.  As mega-successful owners, they’re pretty sure that every inclination they have is a correct one, even if a truckload of PhD’s disagree.  After all, do they own a football team?

So for all those that would still take Favre back, know that it’s our quaint little arrangement of a municipally-owned team that may be contributing to this thing being dragged out like a possum’s guts on the highway.

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