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Brett Favre: The Packers Really Don't Want You To Come Back (But ESPN Does!) [Brett Favre]
Brett Favre: The Packers Really Don't Want You To Come Back (But ESPN Does!) [Brett Favre]
Yesterday's inevitable Favre "itch" has given NFL writers mired in a mini-camp malaise and added story line — albeit one they've written every year for the past four or five years. What's interesting about how yesterday's NFL Live breakingnews went down yesterday was the how fortunate NFL live was to have Al Harris in the studio the day that story breaks. Really, it must have been just the ...
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Three Idiots on Sports — ... If you've been in a cave for the last 12 hours, this Brett Favre fellow is making news. Here's my advice to Brett, shut the hell up and get back on that lawn tractor you seem to love so much (seriously, who ENJOYS cutting the grass?) ...

HARRIS A SOURCE FOR MORT’S FAVRE REPORT?
ProFootballTalk.com — A.J. Daulerio, the brand-new chief cook and butthole washer (yeah, I think that’s funny . . . and, yeah, I’m also secretly eleven years old) at Deadspin, has an intriguing tidbit regarding the possible manner in which the whole “Brett Favre Has An Itch . . . In An Area Other Than His Crotch” spectacle that unfolded Wednesday afternoon. Daulerio suggests that Chris Mortensen was working the story regarding Favre’s possible interest in playing (possibly in response to our report from Monday that Favre’s agent, Bus Cook, ...

Dr. Favrenstein: Chiefs, Peterson Interested In Favre?
Arrowhead Addict | A Kansas City Chiefs Sports Blog — ... wanting its boy back. Personally, I kind of feel like Brett was pushed out by the Pack. I think the guy can still play, and if that is his desire then the Pack owes it to him to find a spot for him on an NFL field, either in Green Bay or elsewhere. After all, did any player ever give more to an NFL franchise? Still, all of this is contingent on the validity of the rumor that Favre is seriously interested in making a comeback. All of this could just be ESPN rumor mongering. ...

Either way, this Brett Favre business will likely end gloriously
Tremendous Upside Potential — ... Brett Favre apparently has the itch to come back and play football, which may or may not be a strange side effect of abusing pain killers. Either way, this story seems to be one with disaster written all over it, which is to say that it is ...

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