Originally Posted by GBFanForLife:
I'm genuinely curious how x4 would vote on this
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I would cheer.
And get a beer.
If he's escorted by Bob Harlan (most important person in the history of the franchise since Vince), I'm not booing.
I'll be cheering, no sense in booing like a jilted ex-lover. There were a lot of fun years and games with Brett at the helm. Yes, he's a tool, but at some point the past has to be looked at for the positive times, and not for the negative.
Not sure on the date, but I predict a full moon that weekend
Originally Posted by Satori:
Not sure on the date, but I predict a full moon that weekend
Beef would hit it!
Maybe Sterling Sharpe will be on hand for his Packer Hall of Fame induction next year
Rodgers is surprised Favre didn't do it earlier.
I don't want to jack this thread from its start, but I find it interesting things are falling into place after TT's contract was renewed.
That is interesting, and most likely purely coincidental. Good to see the team and Favre finally get it done.
I'd cheer him. He made some real mistakes when he left, but I'm ready to put that in the past. I for one am happy that he's coming back home where he belongs.
He made a lot of mistakes when he was in GB too!
I'd time taking a huge noisy dump accordingly.
Then Tankard P. Ale and myself would listen to the rest of the game on radio.
(Wouldn't want to see that pervert lying traitor in one of Lambeau's boxes.)
The Packer/ Favre retirement conversation is still breathing for 3 reasons.
1. Brett was Brett against NO in the 09 championship
2. GB won a SB
3. Aaron Rodgers is a great QB
If any of those things goes the other way Brett never sees the inside of Lambeau again without buying a ticket and Ted, MM, Rodgers, and probably every coach on the staff is long gone and who knows what the team looks like today. The fan base would have been fractured for years.
Its been mentioned time after time here but the balls for Ted to stake his future, Mikes future, Aaron's future, the teams future to his decision to do the right thing in 2008 is remarkable and can't be appreciated enough.
Even with the way things have played out. Brett better play his comments right or he could still screw this up. He'd better understand he forced things to play out the way they did and own up to behaving like an entitled prick.
Well said Chilijon. TT in retrospect did the right thing...
"Come back here asshole, we're going to retire THIS jersey instead"
Even if things didn't come up roses the way it has I still would have sided with Ted (and Mike) for doing what they did. I would be in the minority but they knew they had to part ways and move the Packers forward.
Things would be pretty freaking dark and hostile in GB if Minny won a SB in 2009 and Aaron wasn't the QB he turned out to be.
You have to have a special kind of conviction in doing what you think is right and have the ability to trust the players you've chosen can get it done to do what Ted did. I've got a lot of admiration for him for that alone, never mind the roster he's continued to assemble.
I woulda sided with CJ and Ted too. I was sooo sick and tired of the "will he/won't he" retirement dance every year and the lackadaisical "aw shucks" demeanor to his QB play. the ol' gunslinger had slung too many of them to the wrong people for me not to mention getting his WRs killed in the process of fitting the ball in a tight window. I'm pretty sure McCarthy was done with bert after the OT INT NFC Championship game of 2007. I still recall hearing that MM had a pretty strong desire to take the old cold man off the field that day and insert Rodgers - woulda been far more ballsy than Ted in 2008. Ted & Mike absolutely did the right thing and history proved it.
Originally Posted by Packiderm:
He made a lot of mistakes when he was in GB too!
They should talk a lot about retiring his number every year, but then never actually do it.
I may be reading too much into it but I saw Favre's confirmation of the 2015 Packers Hall of Fame induction and jersey retirement and it seemed like he was almost taking a shot at TT by saying Ron Wolf was the greatest GM in the history of the NFL. Again, maybe nothing.
Originally Posted by chickenboy:
I would cheer, with a beer (in hand).
Yeah and we all know where your other hand would be.
The sentence reads that Wolf is the greatest GM of all time BECAUSE he had the good sense to acquire Favre. It's not a shot at TT. It's just Favre being his typical self-absorbed self.
Originally Posted by Shoeless Joe:
Yeah and we all know where your other hand would be.
Originally Posted by Tdog:
I woulda sided with CJ and Ted too. I was sooo sick and tired of the "will he/won't he" retirement dance every year and the lackadaisical "aw shucks" demeanor to his QB play. the ol' gunslinger had slung too many of them to the wrong people for me not to mention getting his WRs killed in the process of fitting the ball in a tight window. I'm pretty sure McCarthy was done with bert after the OT INT NFC Championship game of 2007. I still recall hearing that MM had a pretty strong desire to take the old cold man off the field that day and insert Rodgers - woulda been far more ballsy than Ted in 2008. Ted & Mike absolutely did the right thing and history proved it.
Exactly, TD. The lying Prick wore out his welcome with everyone who mattered in that organization. (In addition to the fans with enough IQ to read between the lines, his hillbilly groupies notwithstanding.)
I'm willing to be a whole lot of whatever over Favre and the retirement stuff. I'd like to hear him take a little responsibility. But again, whatever.
The part of all this I'll never be ok with, and I don't think any Packer fan should be ok with. Is that had Favre won a SB with the Vikings, had AR not worked out, had GB had a string of losing seasons and TT and MM been fired and Green Bay was left a smoldering pile of ashes with a completely fractured fan base Favre would have been perfectly ok with it.
He never loved Green Bay. He loved the thought of being right.
That's just my honest opinion.
I was on the floor praying that we would lose the toss in the 2007 championship game…knowing fully well that Bert would throw an interception and that would be it.
That, obviously, was his big game operation in the second half of his NFL career.
I grew very frustrated with him long before he left Green Bay…and it didn't help that every broadcaster and media outlet blamed everybody and everything, but him for his big game struggles….as he cried during his retirement speech---I also cried, big tears of joy..
But…Lambeau, Lombardi and Starr all left in less than wonderful circumstances...he was fun to watch…the toughest QB ever and he elevated the Packers from the abyss…I would cheer for him…..
Besides..The Giants beat the ultra-dick undefeated Patriots…We would not have done that…and Favre took the Vikings, arguably the best team in football at the time…and led them back into darkness…that alone might be worth retiring his number.
I'll boo his ass. It's been said multiple times, I understand he's made mistakes, who hasn't. What I can't forgive is the fact that he had to "retire" from the Jets, so they could trade him to the Vikings, so he could "Stick" it to the Packers. That's a vendetta. Furthermore, the fact, and I haven't seen this unsubstantiated, but the mere fact of him calling the Lions and giving them plays and audible calls. He's not a Packer, IMO, I don't care what he has done.
Starr wouldn't call the Bears and give them team info. Reggie White wouldn't call the Eagles and give them team info. Lombardi wouldn't put up with that, and no one should take a "dive" so there friend can set a record (looking at you Strahan). That was awful, and it all revolved around Brent.
D BAG!!!!!! I wouldn't pay to get in there to Boo, but if I got a free tix, you better believe that is what I would be doing.
One last thing, I like how Brent is having Harlan, be the one setting it up. Why can't he set it up? Why does Harlan have to be the go between? Everyone knows why, cause Brent can't do it, he needs someone like Harlan, who is respected by everyone to get it done. BOOOOOOOOOOO!
I wouldn't boo, I wouldn't cheer. I'd , followed by
. In other words, exactly what I often did in the fourth quarter of tight games or in OT when Favre was just slingin' the ol' rock around like the football-lovin' big kid he was.
Glad I won't be there.