Has anyone else notice how angry Favre seems to be?

Question

As the Favre situation heats up and every possible solution seems to be another dead end, has anyone else begun to think that there's something major that went on that P.O.'d Favre and that this whole ordeal is him lashing back?

What I mean is that he seems ANGRY! and I mean REALLY REALLY ANGRY! This is very unlike him.

Answer 1

Hes a big baby

Answer 2

If I was him, I would be pissed too.  I mean, if you look at it from his view, or what he says is his view, it all makes a lot of sense.

According to him, back when he retired he told Ted Thompson, "Look, come June and I get the itch to come back, and I wanna come back, is that gonna be cool?"  Thompson supposedly told him, "Don't worry, I have a plan."

So Favre retires, thinking he has nothing left to give to the game.  Then come July he starts to feel good, and thinks he found something in him that he can give to the game, and asks to come back.  Suddenly, there's a media frenzy, as there should be; Favre's coming back?  That's awesome!

Not quite.  Thompson and coach Mike McCarthy (who I really don't blame too much for all this) start to say all kinds of weird things.  Reports keep getting leaked by Favre's crew and denied by the Packers.  The Packers say that Favre has been illegally talking to the Vikings.  The Packers say that Favre is flip-flopping.  The Packers basically go back on Thompson's word; so much for "I have a plan," its obvious that the Packers have absolutely no plan.  The only plan they come up with is one that presents Favre as some kind of whiner or team cancer; the guy just wants to play football again, and suddenly there's a national media frenzy and everyone's calling him a "jerk" and a "primmadonna."  So he asks to come back to the Packers, and that is denied.  He asks to be traded to a team that he thinks wants him, the Vikings, and that is denied.  Then the Packers purposely put him in a bad situation and try to buy him out.  Now, if you're someone like Favre, he was probably happy that a solution came up that would get him out of the headlines and keep everyone happy, but he's not interested in money, he's interested in football.  So now he looks like a sellout.

I don't know if Favre started out mad, but if he's angry now, I can't say that I blame him.

Answer 3

Who cares if he is angry? The Packers are his "employers" and not the other way around. They have paid him a ridiculous amount of money to play football for nearly two decades and now they don't want him to be their "employee" anymore, which is completely possible and understandable.

C'mon, what kind of an "employee" lashes out at his "employer" like this and still gets away with everything? Brett Favre is so convinced that the world revolves around him, thanks to ESPN, that he must have forgotten who he is. He is a (former) football player and not the GM or owner of the Green Bay Packers. But you know what? As a Giants fan, to me, he's an old overrated QB that stinks in the playoffs and I thank him for choking in the NFC Championship game.

Answer 4

he can always cry to get some relief.... he need some help really.

what a way to end his legacy in Green bay....

Answer 5

He's frustrated more than angry.  The best have the toughest time making the adjustment.  For all the criticism Barry Sanders endured when he pulled the plug, what he did will forever seal his legacy as the best "scatback" to date - and the template for most of the oustanding backs since his day...  Sub 6 foot, superior lateral movement, and ability to shift gears in maximizing his blockers.   I want to remember Favre in the same way, not as a frustrated former player who can't be as decisive in "retirement" as he was in the huddle.  But I understand how hard it is to set the ball down for the last time.  Agony.  I think if Brett were honest and thought about nurturing his loved ones more than his ego, he could start transitioning into private life post-football.  

Answer 6

he has a right to be angree when you're team refuses to either play you, release you or trade you? on all ends there is frustration. Even from a fans point of view.

I wish he was have just stayed retired but if he wants to come back and the Packers don't want him on their roster, then they need to let he go

Answer 7

He's the one that went and retired....a team has to move on and the Packers should just end this thing already.