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How the Jets Stole Favre from the Bucs

Found November 06, 2009 on New York Jets.com:
PLAYERS: Brett Favre
TEAMS: Minnesota Vikings,  New York Jets

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Excerpt from Steve Serby's book, "No Substitute for Sundays: Brett Favre and His Year in the Huddle with the New York Jets." By STEVE SERBY Now it was a Monday night in the first week of August — three nights before the preseason opener in Cleveland — and GM Mike Tannenbaum, in his office at Weeb Ewbank Hall, was on the telephone giving Favre, at home in Hattiesburg, the...
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