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Favre Speaks
The NFL Guru — In case you missed Brett Favre speak this morning at his retirement conference, check it out below: Hopefully he doesn’t regret his decision.

Friday Fire: Is Brett Favre Better Than Warren Moon?
The Starting Five — Click on the above pic to access my commentary. Appeared on a internet radio program hosted by Florida broadcasting legend Ed Berliner yesterday and discussed some issues that just don’t sit well with the TSF collective. I’ll provide links to other topics as they are posted on SBN. I said stuff you will not hear the mainstream media say that needs to be stated even more. I haven’t watched any of Brett Favre’s retirement coverage. I refused to be dumbed down. I’ll say it again my annoyance has nothing to do with Brett Favre the person. He was a great quarterback, but was he really that much better than Warren Moon? Really? Moon’s stats: 208 games. ...

Mavs Fans reaching for the.....
Bob's Blog - Live from Lewisville — First of all, sorry about the tardiness, I had a chance to sleep in for once. I took it. You would have done the same. The Mavericks had two options last night as the palyed a hot Rockets team without Dirk. They could have spent 48 minutes playing with some desperation and defend their homecourt against a team that has not scored 100 points against you in 13 games. Or Dallas could have went to center court and take a massive deuce in the jump-circle. The latter happened at the American Airlines Center last night losing 113-98, and it wasn't even that close. T-Mac took over in the 3rd quarter as Houston outscored Dallas ...

Brett Favre's 1st Retirement Speech
10,000 Takes — Enjoy! Just like with movies, the sequel won't be nearly as good as the original.

Brett Favre’s emotional retirement press conference
Hail Mary Jane — Who knows if we will ever see #4 lace em up ever again but if this is it, Thanks to Brett for everything.  I have tons of respect for Brett Favre even though I have never been a Packers fan.    Tags: brett favre, retirement

So What If He Cried?
Women Like Sports — Brett Favre grew on me a few years ago. At first, I wasn’t a fan of his work or the Green Bay Backers since I am a follower of California NFL teams, particularly the San Francisco 49ers. After a while, the rivalry faded as the Niners became less of a threat following the salary cap debacle and disappointing performances year after year. I didn’t really give Favre much though until he started breaking some impressive records. The one thing I have always admired is his work ethic. For example, here was a guy that had an extra helping of family ...

Favre’s Latest Comments Could Call It A Comeback
SPORTSbyBROOKS — As soon as Brett Favre gave his tearful goodbye to professional football , speculation has run rampant that the former #4 isn’t really ready to hang up his jersey permanently. Brett Favre face close-up And now new fuel has been added to the fire from the man himself. Al Jones of the BILOXI (MS) SUN-HERALD chatted with the Southern Miss product , prior to the publication of the paper’s upcoming book, “The Brett Favre Story”. (Expect a lot of pre-orders from northeast Wisconsin.) When the inevitable discussion of his retirement status came up, Brett may appear to have left a small window of opportunity open. If the Packers ...

Wilt Chamberlain, Ron Jeremy, And Now...Storm Cat
Rumors and Rants — A 21 year career came to an end this week as famed stud Storm Cat ended his fertile, promiscuous tenure as horse breeding's go-to genitalia for fast offspring. We know many of you like to gamble on the ponies out there and we can't deny the popularity of horse racing, despite our efforts to prove the Kentucky Derby sucks. Still, the key to horse racing (and we can't believe this hasn't happened in professional human sports) is breeding. Owners pay tons of money to other owners for the privilege of having a champion horse seed their mares. Storm Cat grabbed up to $500,000 per "session" when he was ...

49ers pipe dreams: Brett Favre can come to The City
Mining the Gold Rush — 49ers pipe dreams: Brett Favre can come to The City According to sources close to Favre and the Packers, there is an “itch” in Favre that wants him to return to the Packers. I cannot believe it! I did not see this coming at all!!!! [/sarcasm] The situation for this comes to the Packers, who now have to wonder what they need to do about it. They have reworked their offense and have been preparing Aaron Rodgers for the upcoming season all camp. It would be wrong to push that all aside for Favre. Yet at the same time, this is Brett Favre though. A chance to have him return would mean wonders for the Packers. However, due to this ...

Favre requests release from Packers.
Clubhouse Cancer — Plenty of sports media are posting that ‘former’ Green Bay Packers QB Brett Favre “has the itch” to play in the NFL in 2008. Big deal. Favre is a drama-queen crybaby attention-whore who eats all this up with a spoon. But only The Wisconsin State Journal is reporting that ...

Green Bay a Favre-free zone?
With Malice - An LA Lakers blog, news and opinions — NFL is abuzz at the moment with the rumoured intention of Brett Favre to return to football. Something Brett Favre himself assures us all is ‘just a rumour’. I don’t buy that. I think he wants in again. Funny, listening to Scott Van Pelt the other day, you’d think that with the Favre situation ...

An Open Letter to Brett Favre
ChicksInTheHuddle.com — Dear Brett, I was sitting in Starbucks today working on a script for “Rocky 7: The Senior Slug-Out” and for some reason you came to mind. I thought about your storybook career, the childhood hero dreams you made come true, and the nearly fabled way you made the “critics and experts” bite their tongue on talk of you retiring after 2006. I thought about the emotional news conference you held earlier this year announcing your retirement and how it inspired me to reflect on your career and the contributions you made to the game. Then, I had another ...

Tuesday edition: Brett Favre’s tarnished legacy
Randball — favre1.jpg Until last night, we weren’t sure if we were on the side of Brett Favre or the Packers — which, as many of you know, is like trying which medieval torture device to try out. With Favre, we knew this was all going to happen ...

Don't call it a comeback
Bullets Forever — If you've been keeping up with sports for more than six seconds over the last few weeks, than you're probably aware that a certain future Hall of Fame quarterback might be lacing them up again.  Of course, Wizards fans know what it's like to deal with an all-time great trying to re-capture old glory, so we can empathize with what Brett's future team is going to go through.  But which fanbase is going to have it worse?  Let's take a look at whether or not Brett will be able to help his new team more than Michael did. ...

Favre: Prognosis Negative (If You’re a Packers Fan)
The Big Lead — Brett Favre walked into a meeting with Packers coach Mike McCarthy … and five hours later, this line seems fitting: What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate. Since we’re Jets fans, we’ll be on round-the-clock* Mort/Glazer/King watch, hoping that somehow, New York GM Mike Tannenbaum can do a deal for Favre before the Bucs can. Kindly read Favre’s quotes to Mort and Ed Werder from the above link, then remember his teary retirement speech, and then come back to our earlier post on Favre. You’ll thank us later. * Actually not; sleep. Lots of ...

Brett Favre Released
RightFielders Women in Sports — The New York Jets have released Brett Favre from their team, acceding to Bret’s request which was made in February. Favre now says that he has no plans of returning to professional football. “Nothing has changed,” Favre said ...

Favre finally spits out an unequivocal 'no'
Shutdown Corner — The question, of course, was, "Will you play football in 2009?" It was asked of Favre by former quarterback and current ESPN analyst Trent Dilfer via text message. For the exact wording, let's go to ESPN's Kevin Seifert: On Monday, ESPN's Trent Dilfer put out a question to retired quarterback Brett Favre: Any chance you would consider playing in 2009? Favre's response, via text: "NO." (Capitalization his.) And that capitalization is no accident, my friend. Unless you're using a cell phone manufactured in 1992, you just ...

Favre Saga Claims Another Victim
Fourth And Fifty — I iz brokan hearteded. When will this madness end?  Has Brett Favre no heart?!  I’m not talking “heart” in the “he plays with ‘heart,’ he’s a gunslinger” capacity or having a literal heart (I heard he doesn’t… he’s a cyborg).  I mean, he ...

ESPN reports that Favre had shoulder surgery
TheDailyBlitz.com — Vikings coach Brad Childress, agent Bus Cook and Brett Favre himself can stop with the "Favre-is-still-retired" talk. Last month, there were reports that he was going to have surgery. Then there were reports that he wasn't going to have surgery. According to Chris Mortensen and Ed Werder of ESPN, Favre did have surgery on his shoulder last month. Favre's shoulder is still not 100 percent according to ESPN. However, it seems to be a certainty now that Favre will unretire (again). Just think - only another ten months or so to another Brett Favre retirement ceremony. ...

Brady, McNabb, Manning — and Money
LEEInks — While football purists might believe that a love for the game is all that sustains the players they adore and admire, it’s wishful thinking to assume that money doesn’t play a significant role too. Once you get past the sentimentality – Favre’s emotional retirement speech, T.O.’s tearful defense of Tony Romo, Rudy – it’s safe to say that a considerable element of football revolves around dollars and cents. Now money may not buy you or me happiness, but it seems in the NFL it can buy a quarterback’s happiness. Donovan McNabb, the Eagles’ 33-year-old Pro Bowl quarterback, wasn’t ...

Brett Favre Has Much In Common With Michael Jackson
Lombardi Ave | A Green Bay Packers Blog — Who was Michael Jackson writing all those songs for during his career? Some lucky lady? No. Brett Favre. I was doing some investigating for a Jackson tribute post comparing Jackson’s song titles to players and teams in the NFL. For example, the song “Bad” was matched up with the Detroit Lions because the Lions were, well, bad (”horrendous” is my word choice, but MJ doesn’t have a song called “Horrendous”). Favre was on that list in it’s infancy under the song “Circus Girl” (more on that later). I was looking for ...

Wild World Of Wednesday - July 29, 2009
Women Like Sports — Thank You!: Thank you for retiring again, Mr. Brett Favre. I really appreciate it. Don't get me wrong; I completely understand the desire to continue doing what you love. It's a way of staving off growing older. Nobody wants to get out of shape and become irrelevant, so I completely understand the delay. Why not take up golf? How about starting a football camp for kids? There is so much you can still do. Enough With This Guy: Aww...poor Michael Vick. Seriously? I can't even talk about this guy more. He's A Human ...

Just So We’re Clear
The Goose's Roost — by Ryan I know we haven’t talked a lot this weekend, but I think this video makes it pretty clear. I retired on Saturday morning, but now I’m back. You just can’t keep Brett and I down. Sure there were tears and lots of workouts with high schoolers, but I’m back and ready to be a shell of my former self roll. Unfortunantly I have to post about the Raiders now, but at least we have things to talk about…

Cryin' Shame: Rodriguez Another in Long Line of Sports Tear Shedders
The Legend of Cecilio Guante — He Won't be the First or the Last Rich Rodriguez shed a tear in a press conference earlier today. It doesn't make him any less of a man. Surely it's not the first time an athlete or coach has fought back a few tears -- or unabashedly let them flow down their cheeks like rain. We need to get over our collective ...

Top Ten Players I'd Like The Smack Silly
Reservation For Six — Heres a list of the top ten NFL players I'd like to smack..... enjoy Yeah, Just like that well anyways, while I'm warming up here is my list 1. Martellus Bennett TE Dallas Cowboys: The dude is dumber than Jerry Jones is rich. He was smart enough to create a black olympics, where he had events like watermellon eating. Marty, if your going to be an annoyance, back it up on the field. SLAP! 2. Mike Vanderjagt PK Free Agent: Has there ever been a player I have hated worse. I dont think so. ...

Former Packers VP Andrew Brandt on The Ted Thompson and Brett Favre Saga
Sports Radio Interviews — It was public knowledge that Ted Thompson and Brett Favre didn’t get along with each other. After all, Ted is the reason Favre is still not playing in Green Bay. I mean how could you blame him? Favre was 38 years old at the time and just finished his 17th season and they had been grooming a younger talent in Aaron Rodgers. For that reason, it is believed that Favre came back to play this season for the Minnesota Vikings just to stick it to Ted Thompson and the whole Packers front office and win a another Super Bowl title. Favre got the best of the Packers both times they played each other and after all he is going to be the last one laughing as ...