Oh larwd.....


Without the tearful public ceremony that accompanied his retirement announcement from the Green Bay Packers just 11 months ago, quarterback Brett Favre has instructed agent Bus Cook to inform the New York Jets Wednesday that he plans to retire.

In an e-mail to ESPN's Ed Werder, Favre indicated he had no regrets about finishing his career with the Jets rather than with the Green Bay Packers franchise he represented for his previous 16 NFL seasons. He specifically praised Tannenbaum, Jets owner Woody Johnson and fired coach Eric Mangini -- and even mentioned Thomas Jones and Kerry Rhodes, both of whom were publicly critical of Favre after the team's collapse in the final month of the season prevented the Jets from making the playoffs.

It's sad that there's a lot of hard feelings about him here in Wisconsin, considering what a major impact he had here for so many years.

But people are generally pissed at the guy.

Eric Mangini named his kid after Brett Favre. Bummer.

nobody gave a rat's ass about the jets last year without favre. he took a sorry team and almost got them into the playoffs. but, like jordan, you can't make this hip-hop generation understand dedication and hard work.

Fury said:

Favre deserves his share of the blame for the Jets late-season collapse, too.

The jets would have been fine with a healthy chad pennington. It was
justice that pennington would lead the dolphins to victory in new york
over the overrated favre led jets.

Maybe if favre would've worked harder during the offseason once he knew
he wanted to play again, instead of bitching at green bay and whining
for sympathy with ESPN analysts, he may not have cost the jets a playoff
berth with his 30 turnovers.
[Edited 2/11/09 10:11am]

phunkdaddy said:

i disagree. chad pennington rode a verrrrry soft schedule that pretty much any seasoned quarterback could have done well with. he was exposed in the game against the ravens when that wildcat college shit got shut down. favre can shoulder some of the blame, and he has...but that horrible secondary and a sporadic running game didn't help either.

Fury said:

...not to mention questionable play-calling by the "Mangenius".

finally.

minneapolisFunq said:

Maybe.....

uPtoWnNY said:

Yeah it's always convenient to blame someone other than favre. Riight!
When the pack won games it was always because of his leadership.
When the pack lost games it was because he was hurt or didn't have talent
around him. Yeah. Riiight!