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Thanks For the Memories Brett Favre
The yoyo Brett Favre and his re-re-return to football...AND one last shot at glory.
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Who's Tampering With Whom?Entry #596872
The Green Bay Packers made a bold move filing tampering charges this week against the Minnesota Vikings, suggesting one of their coaches talked to Brett Favre about playing for their team.

This type of posturing further suggests to me the Packers wanted Favre to retire and to stay retired by intimidating other teams who may be trying to lure Favre their way, or to prevent the quarterback from shopping himself around.

As I understand the way I hear it done in some sports organizations, a team will grant a player and/or agent to seek out teams who would be interested in a trade. Why are the Packers stonewalling Favre for any other reason than to snuff out his career, and why?

The talk about them trying to protect his legacy is now a load a bull, especially if they say he is welcome to come back as Aaron Rodgers backup. No, this is no way to treat a legend and the Packers are made some bold moves to counter Favre's efforts to get his unconditional release from the team.

I can understand why Ted Thompson and company don't want Favre in a Vikings jersey. It's because the Packers will wind up only looking up at their North Division rival in the 2008 standings.

This is just like watching an ugly firing. I've been through something similar. You get the feeling the employer is moving in another direction. You make attempts to secure your job, make sacrifices. When you see that isn't going to work, or the boss has his mind made up, you feel like you're playing a lonely game of Survivor with weak alliances.

Getting coerced into leaving your job is tough. You just want to take that door and leave because they took the fun out of it, or made you fear for your job security or being diminished by every changing policies. It's an unfair advantage that a boss has over an employee and they fully have the right to do it. But in Favre's case, it's more than unethical because the team is airing dirty laundry in the media, forcing Favre to retaliate in the same way because he feels he has no other recourse.

Favre doesn't get to hold many cards because the league allows a team to protect a player under contract, even if he's retired. So when Favre says they manipulated him into an early decision and are now trying to keep him from playing again, it's no lie. And when they say they are trying to preserve a legend, that folks is the real lie.

You'll hear all kinds of misguided pundits try to point out this or that, but Favre was genuine in his retirement annoucement. If he had a notion he had to retire so he could go play somewhere else, it was only an inkling. The things the Packers have said or done pushed him over the edge. Do you want to be told you are not valued as an employee any more and you are not welcome back? Doesn't that make you want to prove your worth? And who is going to tell Favre he's not worthy of playing after the kind of career he's had and what he proved last season?

No Thompson and McCarthy are guilty. They are trying to hide what's on their hands. People need to wise up and see the parallels, because we all get treated like this in real life. Brett Favre is not immune to the same kind of cruel practices of the work place.


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