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His 70’s throwback dance will be seen on NFL football fields no longer, as Daunte Culpepper announced via email that he would retire from football, effective immediately. Um, yeah. That it was done via email and not in front of a microphone and cameras tells you everything you need to know. Without an agent or just a person with a grasp on reality to advise him, Culpepper turned down two offers for backup QB money, one in Green Bay and one in Pittsburgh. When Culpepper was informed that he would in fact NOT be competing for the starting job in Pittsburgh, he turned it down.

It’s also being reported that the coffee has been brewing for seven months now, but Culpepper’s sinus issues and dependence on long naps have prevented him from smelling it.

Daunte, in five years, when you’ve pissed away all your money on hookers and chartered boats, you’re going to wish you had that extra mil or two in the bank. You know, for bail money. The only reason you aren’t on a team today, earning big cash wearing a baseball cap and chewing sunflower seeds is because of your cruise ship-sized ego. Was there something about your time in Miami (6-10) or Oakland (4-12) that led you to believe you could carry a team on your back? Let me tell you something you may not have realized - when the hookers, mid-coitus, were telling you that you were the best quarterback in the NFL and that nobody did it better, they didn’t really mean it.

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When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way, from your first cigarette to your last dyin’ day.

I’ll have more on this later, but by a show of hands, how many think Favre’s antics will get him eaten alive in the Big Apple?

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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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