Brett just got off the air and said he will never play again in small words and everything and ESPN guys are saying they do not think he is fully retired. Have they not listened to Brett before? He doesn't BS. It seems the retirement talk and the issues over the last three years are just because the media gets bored and needs a story. No one in the Packers ever felt like we were held hostage, but it keeps getting reported. ESPN is having a harder time moving on than we are it seems. Brett started off specifically to say that he did feel loved and was asked to come back and also that Moss had nothing to do with this, but it still seems to be a story.

Not surprising. The media always makes something out of nothing.

Brett has never BS'd when speaking to the media & I see no reason for him to start now.

I think the media will miss him forever.
He made football FUN and exciting for non fans even.
Wait, TO or Moss or Johnson will do something they can paparazzi after.

Too many greats before him have returned for one last try. So the talking heads are doing their jobs to stir up the pot. It would not surprise me, if circumstances were right, to see Brett Favre play again...in Green Bay.

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ESPN is having a harder time moving on than we are it seems. Brett started off specifically to say that he did feel loved and was asked to come back and also that Moss had nothing to do with this, but it still seems to be a story.

Clayton is one of the guys who isn't "moving on" as you say. His slant is that Favre did not quit because they didn't get Moss, but that if they had, he might very well have stayed. I'm not sure that I buy that. If Favre truly has lost the fire in the belly then I don't think Randy Moss would have made any difference in his decision.

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Originally posted by southOfTheLine:

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ESPN is having a harder time moving on than we are it seems. Brett started off specifically to say that he did feel loved and was asked to come back and also that Moss had nothing to do with this, but it still seems to be a story.

Clayton is one of the guys who isn't "moving on" as you say. His slant is that Favre did not quit because they didn't get Moss, but that if they had, he might very well have stayed. I'm not sure that I buy that. If Favre truly has lost the fire in the belly then I don't think Randy Moss would have made any difference in his decision.

My guess is John Clayton is making some broad speculations based on rumours and other insider speculation. If anyone had any solid proof that Favre was annoyed about the Moss-less Packers, then you know they would have gotten the "scoop" and plastered it all over the place. Instead we hear opinions based on other opinions. I choose to believe Brett Favre who said his decision was his own and unrelated to issues with MM and TT and other media scuttlebutt.

Brett was quite emphatic in his statement that he would miss footba and might even question his decision when Sunday afternoons come around but also that he will not be looking "out the rear view mirror" but rather will be looking forward. These commentators, like political analysts, who try to tell me what someone really meant when they said something really make me sick. They have nothing else to write about so they try to "make the news" rather than just to "report the news".

I hope he comes out of retirement


we could probably get another 2nd round pick for him , to.o bad Cleveland doesnt have another.... OR we could send him to Cleveland for Brady Quinn. Now there's and idea .


kidding.



I actually think he will be back. I think it wont be this season, but rather next season. He honestly to me looked like a guy that was quitting because he lost some faith in himself. I think after watching this next season, he will want to make a year or two comeback. But it wont be in GB.

I only see one way Brett comes back and it is this: Say the Packers start off 8-3 next season and Rodgers goes down with a season endind injury.( No I DO NOT think he is injury prone but look at all the QBs who do get hurt.) I could see Brett coming back as an insurance policy and maybe even a starter in playoff games if we get that far. This is the only way I see him ever putting on a Packer unifrom again. And that is why I think it will be a couple of years before you see any formal number retirement, ring of honor, Packer Hall of Fame type stuff.

The only way I see Brett coming back is as the grounds keeper at Lambeau Field.

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I only see one way Brett comes back and it is this: Say the Packers start off 8-3 next season and Rodgers goes down with a season endind injury.( No I DO NOT think he is injury prone but look at all the QBs who do get hurt.) I could see Brett coming back as an insurance policy and maybe even a starter in playoff games if we get that far. This is the only way I see him ever putting on a Packer unifrom again. And that is why I think it will be a couple of years before you see any formal number retirement, ring of honor, Packer Hall of Fame type stuff.

Isn't their some rule that once retirment papers are filed, a player can't come back (unretire) for 1 year from that date?

The NFL Network has been a 24 Hour lovefest of the Packers. Kind of fun....

20 years from now they will still be writing articles thinking he will come back. Then, after long last they wake up and figure out that he mean't what he said, they will write that he short changed everyone by not coming back. We are a long way from being done with this one.