Give it up, Favre...it's time to retire
Jancy Nightingale
Issue date: 2/4/10 Section: Opinion
Dear Favre,
It's time to stop mulling around with "highly unlikely" and officially call it quits. You had a good run with the Packers (1992-2007), but the records and the recognition hasn't been enough. You've been bringing up retirement since September 2002 ("I think about retirement a heck of a lot more than I used to. I miss home," you said in a conversation with Peter King of Sports Illustrated), then refused to comment concerning retirement in May 2003. The following saga represents how ridiculous and drawn-out the topic of your retirement has become, and proof that you need to bring it to an end.
In January 2006, a supposed lack of desire brought retirement back into the picture. You said in an interview with ESPN:
"If I had to pick right now and make a decision, I'd say I'm not coming back."
Months later, your name was on the revealed roster for the season,
After beating the Bears 26-7, Jan. 1, 2007, you got a little emotional in a postgame interview, going on about how you want to remember this game, if it's your last game.
When the retirement question was given to you straight, you dodged it with:
"We'll see, we'll see. I don't want to say anything right now."
Not surprisingly, you returned for your last season with the Packers, and officially hung up your Green Bay jersey March 6, 2008.
Of course, it couldn't be over that easy for you and you happily took up the trade to become Brett the Jet for a season.
That didn't work out, and without missing a beat, you "retired" again Feb. 12, 2009.
Again, you couldn't stay on your Minnesota farm and after Vikings coach Brad Childress said you would not be coming out of retirement to play for his team, you signed to play a month later. Your season as a Viking was better than the previous one as a Jet, but now you're not going to the Superbowl and we're having déjà vu for the fourth time.
Other great quarterbacks hung their helmets whether they finished with a spectacular season or thought it was time to be done.
It's time to stop mulling around with "highly unlikely" and officially call it quits. You had a good run with the Packers (1992-2007), but the records and the recognition hasn't been enough. You've been bringing up retirement since September 2002 ("I think about retirement a heck of a lot more than I used to. I miss home," you said in a conversation with Peter King of Sports Illustrated), then refused to comment concerning retirement in May 2003. The following saga represents how ridiculous and drawn-out the topic of your retirement has become, and proof that you need to bring it to an end.
In January 2006, a supposed lack of desire brought retirement back into the picture. You said in an interview with ESPN:
"If I had to pick right now and make a decision, I'd say I'm not coming back."
Months later, your name was on the revealed roster for the season,
After beating the Bears 26-7, Jan. 1, 2007, you got a little emotional in a postgame interview, going on about how you want to remember this game, if it's your last game.
When the retirement question was given to you straight, you dodged it with:
"We'll see, we'll see. I don't want to say anything right now."
Not surprisingly, you returned for your last season with the Packers, and officially hung up your Green Bay jersey March 6, 2008.
Of course, it couldn't be over that easy for you and you happily took up the trade to become Brett the Jet for a season.
That didn't work out, and without missing a beat, you "retired" again Feb. 12, 2009.
Again, you couldn't stay on your Minnesota farm and after Vikings coach Brad Childress said you would not be coming out of retirement to play for his team, you signed to play a month later. Your season as a Viking was better than the previous one as a Jet, but now you're not going to the Superbowl and we're having déjà vu for the fourth time.
Other great quarterbacks hung their helmets whether they finished with a spectacular season or thought it was time to be done.
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Zach
posted 2/04/10 @ 1:28 PM EST
The NFL admits they were wrong:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2009/news/story?id=4868880
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