Favre, Packers at Impasse
Published 7/12/2008 by Mark Maske at Mark Maske's NFL Insider
It officially is standoff time between Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers. The retired quarterback and his agent, Bus Cook, asked the Packers in a letter delivered Friday to release him. The Packers are refusing, with team officials telling media outlets that Favre is welcome to return if he wishes as a backup to newly appointed starter Aaron Rodgers. How did Favre let it get to this point? He was one of the...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.
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