RSSBring Brett Back and While You’re at it Visit the Website!
Jul 14
Green Bay Packers fans, a few of them anyway, united around the possible return of Brett Favre to the organization. The AP reported 200 fans turned out for what is expected to be a weekly summer event, the “Bring Brett Back” rally. The rally, held at Lambeau Field yesterday, doubled as a can food drive to help flood victims. It is planned for every Sunday until Favre is reinstated to the team. Fans hope to encourage Green Bay Packers management to embrace Favre as the team’s starting quarterback for the upcoming football season.
If you missed the rally, you may have a second chance tonight in Milwaukee, WI. All the details are available at BringBackBrettFavrecom and while you’re there, you can purchase Favre 08 tees and yard signs.
Favre retired formally from the professional football at the end of last season, but recently expressed the desire to return. Packers management hasn’t exactly been in love with the idea, but Favre is on the payroll anyway so he might as well play right? Favre last week asked for an unconditional release from the team so he could sign with another team.
While it’s up to the league to reinstate Favre formally, the Packers have to decide what to do with the 9-time pro bowler who helmed the team for 16 seasons and has the most consecutive starts for a NFL quarterback at an astounding 253 regular season starts. Fans loyalty to Favre is well-deserved but Favre has also strung the team along by vacillating between playing and retirement for several seasons now. Now, they are faced with three possibilities:
- The team can install him as a backup quarterback to his replacement, Aaron Rodgers.
- The team can make him the starting quarterback.
- Or they can trade him to another team.
What they will probably not do is give him his unconditional release, which will almost certainly end with Favre on a team within the same division, either the Chicago Bears or the Minnesota Vikings.
