Published 8/1/2008
by MJ Kasprzak
at Bleacher Report - NFL
I am so sick of this. Yet every day, new information comes out that makes me despise the situation more.
Now we find out the Packers offered to pay Favre $2 million/year for a decade to stay home. Seriously? Did you think he only wants to show up for the money? And if that is what you thought, did it occur to you he could make more than that doing his Bergstrom car lot pitch?
Many of you following my writings on this matter know how critical I have been of Favre. I believe he betrayed the Packers by talking to a division rival. (I suspect the reason you are hearing nothing more about the tampering is that the Packers' evidence would show they are paying for a cell phone for Favre, which would have to be reported as compensation to the league.)
I also believe Favre has held the organization hostage by not making a decision year after year, at one point waiting past free agency and the draft. This year, he changed his mind three times in March alone. He is revising history by suggesting the ...
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