Favre – No Mas?

According to Van Susteren, who spoke to the AP by telephone Monday afternoon, Favre said he was “never fully committed” to retiring and felt pressured by the Packers to make a decision, a notion Packers general manager Ted Thompson and coach Mike McCarthy tried to dispel in an interview with the AP on Saturday.

Pressured to retire? Doesn’t Brett have a mind of his own? Hasn’t he considered the options? If Brett wants to play then he can return to Green Bay as the back-up to Aaron Rodgers and wait for the new quarterback to stumble. But Brett wants to be the starter. If that doesn’t fly, then he wants to select the teams he wants to be traded to.

There is no doubt that Brett Favre can still throw a football. He looked pretty good last season as he led the Packers to a division title. But Old Man Time waits for no one and the business end of the game demands he step aside. Athletes don’t like to lose and they have been wired to feel powerful and omnipotent. Their egos are huge, out of necessity; it is how they survive the brutal business of professional sports.

But the business end of the Packers requires they develop their future players.

Brett is not their future; he is their past.

Brett, it’s time to move over and look for a new career, step aside and hold the clipboard in Title Town, or to take your guts and glory mentality to another team.

Yes, Packer fans. It’s time to tear the Number Four off those Cheeseheads and bid adieu to number four.

Nothing says loyalty like a clumsy and contentious departure.

By Ivette Ricco

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