What The Heck Is Going On In Wisconsin?

Jayhawk Fan posted 2/28/2008 from awfulannouncing.blogspot.com [flag]

At around 1pm, PFT and C-Mottram at TSB saw that Packers.com had a story up with the title "Breaking News: Favre to Retire". The story had no words, just a title and a photo, and it has since been taken down. But screengrabs exist, so let's go to the video tape, er photo..... Well Wisconsin's WTJM just spoke with Packers PR and this is their response..... A Packers spokesman tells Newsradio... [link]

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