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Brett Favre Is Coming Back To Play In 2008...Maybe
Brett Favre Is Coming Back To Play In 2008...Maybe
So pardon me if I'm not surprised by this news at all, but it looks like Brett Favre is coming back to play this year. Maybe. But it's much more of a possibility now than it was before. Sam Farmer at the LA Times i s reporting that Favre's agent has quietly inquired with teams about their interest in trading for the three-time NFL most valuable player. Farmer doesn't name who his sources ...
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Random Unsubstantiated Rumor: Brett Favre's Retirement Lasts 29 Days
FanHouse — Filed under: Packers, NFL Fans, NFL Gossip, NFL Rumors This is rich: according to some super-secret NFL sources, Brett Favre, retired for all of a month, could be contemplating a comeback. Because, you know, it would be totally out of character for him to mull retirement only to play another season. The Los Angeles Times' Sam Farmer writes that "Favre's agent has quietly inquired with teams about their interest in trading for the three-time NFL most valuable player." Shockingly, Bus Cook (Favre's agent) knew nothing of the former Hall of Famer's clandestine return to the league: ...

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In response to Sam Farmer’s recent report for the Los Angeles Times that agent Bus Cook is quietly talking to other teams about a possible trade for retired quarterback Brett Favre, a league source tells us that Cook definitely had been doing this. Cook’s motives remain unclear. It’s possible that he wants to line up a [...]
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Maybe you caught the story in the L.A. Times yesterday: BRETT FAVRE CONSIDERS COMEBACK ! The story, penned by Sam Farmer, cites an anonymous NFL source who claimed that Favre's agent was talking to other teams about possibly playing for them. Oh really. I'm sure that a reporter for the L.A. Times, which is in a city that doesn't even have an NFL team , has access to several top-notch ...
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Boy, it didn’t take long for Brett Favre to change his mind did it? After the tears and a near depression by John Madden, it looks like Favre may not be retired after all. Sam Farmer is reporting that Brett Favre could be back in the league just in time ...
Favre on the comeback trail?ESPN.com - NFL Nation Blog
Los Angeles Times NFL writer Sam Farmer interrupted Day 7 of the Pacman standoff to report that Brett Favre's agent has been quietly gauging the interest that teams might have in trading for his client . Citing unnamed league sources, The Times also reported that Favre's retirement was partially caused by frustration over the Packers' decision not to pursue Patriots wide receiver Randy ...
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If Sam Farmer wasn't such a well respected name in the journalism, this story about Favre returning would be easier to ignore. Okay, it still seems a little far-fetched....
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Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles Times has a report today that, if true, would be a bombshell: Brett Favre could be weighing a comeback with an NFL team other than the Packers. Farmer quotes unnamed NFL sources as saying that Favre’s agent “has quietly inquired with teams about their interest.” And he notes that Favre, [...]