Favre. Buck. Nagler. Live.
By Aaron Nagler on Jun 15, 2009 with 20 Comments
And so it begins.
Keep refreshing this post and I’ll keep you up to date on what Favre is saying during his first interview since his release from the Jets earlier this summer.
Opens with a taped Favre-in-the-make-up-chair-will-Favre-show-up segment. Favre is decent – Buck is annoying.
Opening monologue is very stiff – now a Favre montage – playing the tears at the retirement presser, the unretirement, the coverage, the drama… all the horrible memories.
Favre appears – black t-shirt, jeans. Big cheer from the crowd.
Favre: It’s not my intention to create controversy.
Buck is pretty good – very straightforward. Do you plan on playing in the NFL next year? Favre: Maybe.
Favre confirms surgery with Andrews “two and a half weeks ago”
Confirms he has spoken to the Vikings and meeting with their trainer this past weekend.
Favre says “I could teach the offense” about the Vikings WCO.
My oldest daughter, God bless her, just said “He really needs to pick a team…”
Childress asked Favre to come to OTAs. Favre chose not to due to questions about his arm – acknowledges the media frenzy to come when he eventually signs.
Buck brings up Tarkenton. Favre says he’s heard the comments.
Favre says there will always people who don’t “give a shit” – says “This is HBO, right?”
Buck is actually doing a great job – not letting Favre get away with simple dismissive statements. Following up at the right points.
Just as I say that, Favre dismisses any traitor talk by invoking Lombardi going to the Redskins.
Favre: It’s not life and death. It’s football.
Favre says the intense scrutiny in Green Bay didn’t really get to him, but says he definitely doesn’t crave the attention the way he used to.
End of interview.
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I didn’t think we would get an answer out of him
How can Joe Buck do this interview and not once mention Ted Thompson by name? TT is at the epicenter of the controversy!
By comparing the redskins rivalry and the queens rivalry with us, he’s clearly making an excuse, and can be called a traitor. He doesn’t even need to sign with the queens. Because, let’s face it, the only way he doesn’t is if his arm isn’t right. NOT BY HIS OWN WILL. BY MEDICAL REASONS. TRAITOR! I said it!
he said “we” when referring to himself and the Vikings.
enemy.
agree… Vince Lombardi did not coach the redskins to stick it to the Packers, you can say the same about Holmgren going to the Seahawks, Bretts motivation for playing for the Queens is wrong…
And he compared himself to Lombardi! WTF!
He’s coming back.
Ready the bomb shelters. Man the turrets. Hide in the corner in the fetal position. Prepare for Favre War II. Things are about to blow the eff up.
Did the fans just get dismissed?
But did anyone REALLY believe TOG would say something important? Or not self-serving? I’ll leave it up to the Packer defenders to show him the error of his ways. He will face his worst nightmare both in the Dome and at Lambeau. Then, finally, his retirement. Lest we forget.
Well. Favre definitely came across better than he did during the Van Sustran interview.
I do wish Buck would have asked Favre about the “sticking it to Ted” comments.
I also would have liked to see Buck ask Irvin to weigh in again, given that Irvin has been very vocal throughout this latest soap opera.
Anyone stick around to watch the Artie Lange cringe-fest? Classic.
Lombardi,
1. Retired from coaching and stayed on as Packer GM.
2. He tried GM only and his personality and drive prohibited him from staying off the field any longer.
3. He could have had the GB coaching job back if he wanted, but would not screw his good friend Phil Bengston. (Are you listening Favre you AZZ)
4. He signed with the Skins as GM and Coach. The Skins were never aligned as a direct competitor of the Packers.
5. Lombardi never used the Packer Organization as a focus of immature vindictive like that AZZ hole Favre.
May I paraphrase an old politician? I knew Vince Lombardi, and Favre you AIN’T no Lombardi. Or Bart Starr for that matter.
“Favre says the intense scrutiny in Green Bay didn’t really get to him, but says he definitely doesn’t crave the attention the way he used to.”
I don’t need air either.
Sigh..just sigh…and I took a chance on getting fired from my job to watch that man cry on the internet about retiring. And I cried right along with him.
Sigh.
I still stand on middle ground here.
He retired. Bad choice.
He wanted to return and expected the Packers to welcome him with open arms. Dumb, presumptuous move.
He asked to be released or move on. Correct choice if you want to continue playing and your former team wants to move on with a new quarterback.
2 months of pissing back and forth ensues. Favre not released, not traded. Drama unfolds hourly on ESPN.
Finally traded to 4-12 Jets. Decides to play it out so he can be released the following year to go where he wants. Jets and Favre get what they want considering the circumstances.
Jets release Favre. Mutual parting of the ways.
Favre wants to prove that he was worth keeping around to the guy that felt he wasn’t. Cocky, irritating, but as competitive human nature as any of us, and as competitive as we’ve seen Favre his whole career.
Not absolving him or even defending him. But this is far more convoluted that we’ve decided to make it.
I ain’t scurred. Bring on the Queens. I moved on last season. Now can someone carefully remove the knife from my back please?
Thanks in advance.
He said there are 3 kinds of fans, Ones that always hate, ones that always will love and ones that just don’t care.Really? How about ones that loved and supported you for years, and now hate you do to your recent childish actions. He danced around answers the whole time, he shoulda come out and said “If my shoulder’s healthy I’m playin for the Vikings, and if you don’t like that,well um… Lombardi went to the Redskins so there!” would have saved us some time
Artie’s the man.
Buck skipped the good questions:
Brett you admitted the main reason you played last year was to “stick it” to Ted Thompson; has that changed or is this still your reason for coming back?
Brett are you going to agree to an incentive based contract?
Brett if you’re unable to play would you be willing to be taken out of the game, even if it breaks your continuous game streak?
I’m wondering how many of the die hard Favre supporters will cheer him when he emerges from the tunnel in Vikings purple…
For that matter, all Favre’s disciples who ran out and bought a Favre Jets jersey and were chanting his name, will you buy a Favre Vikings jersey as well?
@LA. What makes you think the Jets were happy to let him go? They have half a stake in THE MOST EXPENSIVE stadium ever built, and it was funded by the teams and not on taxpayer money. They need to sell PSLs for 250 skyboxes and 70k seats at prices so absurd I think they are too embarrassed to make it public yet (unless I missed it, but they cant go too far below what the Giants charged). No the Jets were just as tired of the song and dance as the Packers management and they had to gamble on Sanchez. Ideally, you open a new stadium with a HOF QB who is so popular that people would buy his bottled farts.
Graffin is absolutely right. To me it comes down to two things. He’s either a traitor, that used to love playing for the Packers and the fans, and now goes to a big rival just for revenge. Or he’s a liar, that pretended to love the Packers and the fans, and never really cared about the team or the supporters. Either way, his legacy and his image alltogheter are pretty much destroyed…