So I’m watching television tonight (I love me some Intervention - nothing makes me feel like my life rocks more than watching someone huffing Rustoleum until they’re blue in the face. Seriously. Face was all blue. From the paint. See? Your life rocks too, doesn’t it?), and there’s another commercial for a cellphone company - T-Mobile. Their latest ad campaign is of people saying “hello” when normally they’d say “goodbye.” A cute girlfriend tearfully says hello as her boyfriend climbs into his car and drives away. The kids say hello to dad as he leaves for work. A quarterback says that after 17 years in the NFL, it’s time to say hello. (Cue the needle scratching a record)
I guess if you learn what’s right and wrong on dirt streets in Mississippi, you probably shouldn’t be expected to know what a slap in the face this is. Favre jerks around his team and the Packer fan base, spiraling year after year into indecision about whether he’s going to return, then he retires, unretires, retires again, then kinda unretires, then finally gets on a chartered jet to come up for training camp. Like a snake on a plane. Where’s Samuel L. Jackson when you need him?
All jokes aside - this was in very poor taste, Brett. You pulled a months-long diva act, holding the Packers and your fans for ransom for months (and seasons), and now you’re making money from your period of indecision, all while poking fun at us by appearing in this commercial. I am embarrassed. Embarrassed to think I was a fan of yours. Embarrassed to know that you’ll be welcomed back into the fold. Did you ask OJ Simpson about how to go about cashing in on your public misdeeds? ‘Cause that’s how this thing feels to me.
For a guy who’s not about the money, it sure looks like you’re willing to burn just about anyone to get a little more of it. How you don’t walk away from this commercial offer given the things you know the fans in Wisconsin have been saying about all of this is something I don’t think I could understand. Maybe if I had $50M in cash and assets and had surrounded me with all lovers of Me, it’d be hilarious. But I’m closer to $50K in assets, so this reads like a Leona Helmsley bio to me.
Pbpbpbpbpbpbpbpb. Ptui!
Ok, I got some of that out of my system. My dad always taught me that if I’m not part of the solution, I’m part of the problem. And I want to help get this problem solved. What can I say? I’m a giver. And I have a possible solution. By doing this Brett will provide some much-needed goodwill to the local fans. Here’s the plan: cop to making a media rookie move and make a written pledge to donate the money you made from the T-Mobile campaign to some local charity. As in Wisconsin charity. Pretty simple, right? And since he’s going to make $13M just from the Packers this year, it’s a safe bet that he can afford it. Who knows how much he’ll make from Wrangler, Prilosec, Bergstrom Automotive, Remington, Snapper Mowers and Mastercard, but I think Brett could prahhhhbably afford to miss out on the T-Mobile booty.
So what do you say, Brett? Are you on board with this, or do I need to superimpose your face on a pretty little sun dress to do my version of poking fun at your indecision, then send it to the Big O for a media blitz?
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August 7th, 2008 at 8:55 am
you must be tweeking meth. Let us not forget Brett was going to retire at the end of the 2006 season but came back and took us to the NFC championship game. I’m sure he pissed off many fans by getting us to the conference & division championship. The fans at Green Bay should have been as excited as Brett was to be able to have him for another year. This (2008)would have been the year the Green Bay packer won another superbowl if Brett returned but with Rogers who throws picks into the endzone and has little experience I think we will be lucky to beat the viking this year in our own conference. Wake up town… loosing Brett was the worst thing that could have happened to us. They should have let him play and then watched what he could do again for us like last year but oh nooo mikey had to make it look like the southern slinger was creating a problem in town and he was just not into playing for the pack this year. all BS
August 7th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
What kind of packer fans are you people, you keep slamming brett as if it was HIS decision NOT to play for green bay, WAKE UP Mccarthy had No intension of letting Brett compete for the QB position in the 1st place. He had his MINDSET on Rogers for starting QB all along. Telling Brett that he can compete for the position and then not allowing him to compete. Yeah real man of his word isnt he. Mccarthy talks about brett’s mindset, BS Mccarthy’s mindset was not to let Brett play as a packer in the 1st place. You fans praise Brett when he is with the packers and now that he is not with the pack, you people slam him. How can you slam a 16 year QB with a team? Your sad and pathetic and are barking up the wrong jersey, Why dont you start slamming the person responsible for Brett not playing with green bay. Get your actions straight Mccarthy is the reason for the pack having their worst season…. Thanks again coach!
August 9th, 2008 at 1:39 am
I typically don’t comment on blogs, but I have to right now. This is directed at every one of you so called Packer fans that is happy with the fact that the Packers sh*t on the greatest Packer ever and slammed the door in his face long before any of this stuff in the media.
I am going to drop some knowledge right now, so just shut up and listen:
As we all know, Ari Fleischer is now on the Packers payroll. Do we all remember Ari Fleischer? Yes, that’s right, he’s one of the main players in the selling of the war in Iraq to the gullible American public based on information that they knew was false. Not going to dive into that. But, think about one of the main tactics they used when selling the war: discrediting and disparaging anyone, and I mean anyone, who spoke out against them. So, don’t you find it at least interesting that every story that has “leaked” from the Packers side has made Favre look bad? Oh, that’s just coincidence you say. Well let me go here. In this whole stupid saga, which side really had more to lose based on how this was viewed in the public eye? Favre? I think not. He simply wanted to play football. He admitted to retiring early, and, as always, he took the blame for this. Even though we know now that he was pressured into that decision. His legacy as the greatest Green Bay Packer to ever play the game, and one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever play the game, is intact forever, no matter how he plays in NY. He has been open and honest, just he was for 16 years. Remember that? For 16 years you all loved Favre because he was an open, honest, down-to-earth guy who wore his heart on his sleeve. Oh, but all of the sudden he’s a cry baby whiner? Really? So for 16 years he was fooling the world. Wow, maybe he should go into acting while he’s in NY. Okay, now what about the Packer organization? Um, yeah! Think about it. These people knew that they wanted Brett gone, and they knew how to make it happen. They would give him no indication that they wanted him back, while at the same time pressuring him for an answer to the point that he just couldn’t take it anymore and finally gave in and retired. Wy do you think the organization set up all of these closure ceremonies (retiring his jersey, staking down his locker) so quickly after he retired? So they could have more reason to keep him out. They knew he would likely change his mind and that is why they wanted to get all of this sh*t done immediately! Following that are phony stories that have come out since then about Favre changing his mind multiple times about coming back from the end of March through May, making it seem as though Favre was toying with the Packers and they couldn’t take it anymore. In reality, Favre NEVER told the organization he wanted to come back until June 20th. All of the leaked stories made it seem as though Favre contacted the Packers telling them he was sure he wanted to come back, then just days later, changing his mind again. You may ask, “Why would the Packers lie?” This management team will forever be remembered as the group that pushed Favre, one of the greatesr players to ever live coming off one of his best seasons ever, out of Green Bay. In order to do this and not suffer the backlash that they SHOULD BE suffering (if only Packer fans weren’t so gullible and stupid), they had to plant false stories (late march flip-flop, Packers issued cell phone, etc.) that made Favre look bad and made it seem as though they had no choice but to not accept him back. How can nobody see this? Why do you think that in the latest press conference with Thompson, McCarthy & Murphy, they still refuse to answer the question “Why, back in June, was it the stance of the organization to adamantly refuse Favre from rejoining the team?” There are four times in the press conference where this comes up with various wording, and every time the question is dodged, or McCarthy tries to tie his answer into the meetings that just occurred this past week. Why, when Favre first came to McCarthy and told him he wanted to play on June 20th, was the stance and adamant no, without any face-to-face contact with Favre about it? He hasn’t earned at least that throughout the past 16 years?! All that had occurred to that point were mini-camps and workouts. You’re telling me they were already set in a new direction at that point? Give me a break! They are running the same play book, but more plays to compliment Rodgers. But it’s the same play book! Also, if you watch all the locker room interviews, the players unanimously declare that bringing Favre back WOULD NOT cause division inside the locker room and the team would rally behind whoever is quarterback. The organization has been lying to the public since day one! Open your eyes people! Do you really, deep down in your hearts, think that the reason they won’t take him back is because he retired? If you do, then I’m surprises you are even smart enough to read this. The organization’s goal, since Thompson arrived, was to use Favre for a few years to mentor Rodgers, then once they felt Rodgers was ready, do whatever necessary to get rid of Favre. His play last season threw everyone for a loop, and they realized that after a season like that, they would need to hire the likes of Ari Fleischer to spin their BS to make it seem as though Favre is at fault here.
I still hold out hope that the once proud fans of the Green Bay Packers, the greatest, most storied franchise in history, will one day stand up and refuse to turn their back on the man who gave them everything he had to them for 16 years, and will not sell him out for the sake of an inexperienced management team that had a plan for his exit from the day they took power. Brett Favre played through the death of his father, the death of his father-in-law and brother-in-law, the revelation of his wife’s breast cancer, with broken bones (including the thumb on his throwing hand) and pulled muscles. He showed up EVERY DAY!! Won championships when he was able to carry the team, and tried his hardest to do so even when surrounded by a poor supporting cast, often to the detriment of his own legacy (all-time INT leader), but with one goal in mind: victory for not only the team he loved, but the town he still loves and the fans who he will always love. Don’t you think he has earned more respect than what he got when these egotistical bast*rds slammed the door on him and sh*t on him beginning January 21, 2008?! What happened to you “Packer fans”? You don’t deserve Brett Favre, and you never did . . .