Brett Favre: Welcome to Retirement

Brett Favre spent his first few days of freedom wild boar hunting. Teammate Frank Winters thinks that Favre will have no problem finding things to keep him occupied other than football. Winters suggests, "knocking down trees and stuff" on his tractor. Favre hasn't officially filed his retirement papers yet, but he just thinks that that is a formal step, and plans to do it later. When receiver Donald Driver was asked whether or not Favre would come back for a ceremonial coin toss to start the 2008 NFL season, he laughed. "He ain't coming back for no coin toss," Driver laughed. "He's going to be a ghost. That's the thing -- he has to get away from the game for a little while." The prospect of a return from retirement, not unlike that of Michael Jordan, is also considered highly unlikely around the Packers camp. "I don't know," Driver said of Farve's future in football. "It'd be hard to say." Green Bay Packers president and chief executive, a ... [link]