Good column in the GB Press-Gazette:
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/p...0113/1058/PKR01
Brett Favre’s “itch” has developed into a full-blown media rash over the past week-and-a-half.
Everyone in the Packers’ locker room is praying Favre returns
It would be foolish for anyone to say publicly he doesn’t want Favre back, but there is a substantial faction of younger players who are eager to play with Rodgers. Favre is at least a decade older than all but six guys on the roster.
He dressed in his own locker room. He had minimal social interaction with teammates. Rodgers is one of the guys, and plenty of them are pulling for him to get his shot.
That's how I spell DIVA.And now you'll get some Favre fanatic try some circular logic saying he earned his own locker room yet argue that the Packers have a right to move on in spite of all that Favre has done for the franchise.
What? WHAT? Now, listen, if you want to say that the Packers have every right to start Rodgers, I totally agree with you. Favre
retired. He said he was done, and the Packers cheerfully entered the "Rodgers" era, for however long they planned on that era to last, I don't know. I do know they won't settle for less than one offseason though.
But that is the only reason that is fair to say that the Packers organization should move on. Do the Packers owe it to Brett Favre to take him back? He rebounded his play last year and took the team to the NFC Championship. He helped turn the franchise around, and now that he's turned wishy washy posters want to forget about him. People are finally admitting that Favre's acted childish now that he's not their QB, where before it wasn't such a big deal that he's been uncertain about retiring. He's still not sure, what's changed? I haven't seen somebody get denied this much since Peter said he didn't know Jesus.
An interesting counter point to the Packer fans who state that "real" fans have all moved on to the Rodgers era: ever since the story broke, each Sportsnation poll asking whether or not Favre should play for the Pack this year Wisconson has consistently said Yes. So either it's only women and casual fans living in Green Bay or the truth is not as some have tried to paint here.
If I see another Packer fan say the Pack should take him back, trade Rodgers and see how the team does with Favre "for a year
or two" so Brohm can start I'm probably going to vomit from laughing. Favre has had trouble deciding if he's wanted to play for years, trading away Rodgers on the hopes that he might come back and stick around for two more is outrageous. What if he gets frustrated with poor performance and quits halfway through the season? It's obvious that for such a tough guy, he's turned quite simple and I would not count on him to be able to keep his composure for a full season.
The only reason the Packers want Favre to stay retired is so they don't have to trade him. They're playing it awfully close to the belt now, with all the talk of "legacy" and subtlelly trying to remind Brett that retirement was what he'd asked for. It doesn't help them any to have him in the league, and that is the same reason now Favre fans are also wishing he'd stay retired. The team has moved on because it had to. The fans that have moved on because he has betrayed them now have to act like Rodgers is the one they want, instead of the hand that they have been forced to play. And to spite him, they say things like the Packer organization doesn't need him any longer. Ouch. The QB that turned the franchise around has officially become chopped liver.
What a mess of a situation.