Bob Harlan Provides Rationale for Favre Enshrinement Plans
The Green Bay Packers announced on Friday that fans will be able to buy tickets to watch Brett Favre's enshrinement into the team's Hall of Fame inside Lambeau Field.
Although the ceremony will still be held inside the atrium, Favre will still make an appearance and address fans inside the stadium afterwards.
Packers chairman emeritus Bob Harlan reportedly met with the media Friday and provided the rationale why the entire ceremony wasn't held inside the stadium bowl.
From Tyler Dunne of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Harlan says they discussed having the entire hall induction in the bowl, but potential bad weather the main reason they cannot.
— Tyler Dunne (@TyDunne) February 27, 2015
Comments (7)
4thand1
February 27, 2015 at 09:53 pm
Packer fans don't care about bad weather. If that was the case there'd be a roof over Lambeau.
Irish_Cheesehead
February 28, 2015 at 06:49 am
What a joke. Second class treatment for the fans. The executives need to grow a pair and sit outside.
badaxed
March 01, 2015 at 09:43 am
Kowtowing to sponsers. Fans pay the ticket price. buy the merchandise. Get to the back of the bus. so much for fan ownership.
4thand1
March 01, 2015 at 10:33 am
Money talks and bullshit walks. I have a feeling the fans will get their moneys worth. Favre wants to have it in the open.
Zola Davis
March 02, 2015 at 10:12 am
Take all that BS and tell me how it overshadows 290 consecutive starts. Anyone can find a flaw with anyone; no matter how hard I've tried, I can't overcome the 290 starts.
End
of
Story.
Amanofthenorth
March 03, 2015 at 01:14 am
The media started all that annual retirement talk when he was about 30. The media had nothing else to talk about so Favre retirement was a way to sell papers.
But it eventually put Favre and the Packers into an awkward situation. He still wanted to play, obviously, and who can blame him. That's what he was. a hell of a football player, but certainly not a smooth politician or caretaker of his public image.
I think Tootie Robbins called him a country boy redneck and Favre said, " Heck yes. That's what I am. "
Fourever
cuervo
March 03, 2015 at 12:33 pm
Look the guy was a good player for years for the Packers and helped make us respectable again, nobody disputes that. None of that changes the fact that the guy turned into a complete and total douchebag. Personally I wouldn't waste one second of my time having anything at all to do with him. For me, actions matter...and when you act like a douche, you get treated like one.
For those that want to go, I sincerely hope you have a good time though.