Eric618 said:
I also totally agree, Mike
As was stated, sure he needs to retire eventually and a replecement will be found... But how much time is being WASTED right now regarding prepping for the upcoming season. Who's starting QB? No one seems to know. Does that affect the team? Anyone who says it doesn't is crazy IMO. Does Favre care? Seems like he couldn't care less to me. It's all about Favre and NOTHING about the Green Bay packers.
And to say, "I might retire, I just wanna hold out and see if my team is going to suck or not this year, then I'll decide" is pathetic and shows a blatant lack of respect for the team and the game.
Bettis was used as an example and that's the ONLY reason I'm mentioning it (cause I'm certainly biased toward Pittsburgh). As Mike saide, Bettis took pay cuts 2 years in a row, and also stepped back for Duce and Willie to fill in the starting roles. All while playing the role of mentor to his replacements. He publicly said he wasn't thrilled, but was willing to do whatever it took to help himself as well as the TEAM. Even if you loathe Pittsburgh, I don't see how anyone can find his actions anything less than commendable. On the opposite end of that coin, Favre is doing just the opposite. Even if you love Green Bay, I don't see how anyone can find HIS actions anything less than reprehensible.
Put yourself in Favre's shoes.
You've already won a Super Bowl (one of two you've been in). You've won three MVP awards. You are close to breaking almost every QB record on the books. You already are a millionaire several times over.
You've started every game in your career, playing through broken bones, torn ligaments, concussions, etc. (and played admirably and won, I might add...sticking your neck out for the TEAM, as it were). You've played through your wife's cancer, the death of your father, the death of your brother-in-law, your hometown area practically wiped off the map by a hurricane...in short, you've given it your all for your team...for your entire career.
Then this past season you've played with a sub-par O-Line and different running backs and recievers every game, all season long only to post your worst career numbers, and the worst team record since you joined the team.
You're close to those records, there is all that money and you still have the desire to play, but you'd have to come back and play for a team that might suck as bad as last year.
Yes, a very easy decision.
You accept all these talented players like T.O., Walker, etc. who whine and demand to be traded and switch teams like they change socks...players who have no concept of loyalty, because they are just doing it because the NFL is a business.
But Favre? No, don't cut him any slack, because even though he's given the Packers a Super Bowl (not single handedly, but they surely wouldn't have even been there without him), and he's given everything he had to the Packers his entire career.
No, he should just make up his mind already, because it's so easy to do...especially being on the outside looking in.
, I disagree. If he was so unwilling to "give all of that up", why did he say playing for another team wasn't an option? Besides, he ain't giving "all of that up", because he don't have it! As for his accomplishments, they're etched in stone, dude. They can't be undone. You football fans in Green Bay are like guitar players. You refuse to believe that there are others. 
