BRETT FAVRE RUMORS & GOSSIP

Packers to retire Brett Favre’s jersey “in a year or two”

Even with the way things ended between Brett Favre and the Packers, almost everyone expected that his number would be retired by the organization someday. Favre holds almost every major passing record in NFL history and is arguably the Packers’ greatest player ever. He’ll be a Hall of Famer in 5 years from whenever the hell his last game actually was. Today, the Packers gave...
Via The Football Fan Spot  |  8 days ago
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Packers to retire #4 in "a year or two"

Regardless of how Brett Favre's last 3 seasons in the NFL played out, he will always be remembered as a member of the Green Bay Packers. He was without a doubt one of that franchise's best players of all time, and it appears that the Packers will indeed be retiring Brett Favre's jersey, #4, in "a year or two." Lori Nickel of the Journal Sentinel spoke with...
Via This Given Sunday  |  8 days ago
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Now’s Not The Time to Honor Favre

This image is still fresh in the minds of Packers fans When Mark Murphy was asked on Thursday about retiring Brett Favre’s number, the team’s president and CEO replied, “Probably in a year or two. We want to do it at a time that’s meaningful to him.” Huh? Am I reading this correctly? Murphy wants to honor Favre “at a time that’s meaningful...
Via Packer Update  |  8 days ago
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Report: Packers to retire No. 4 'in a year or two'

If time can truly heal all wounds, the strained relationship between the Green Bay Packers and former quarterback Brett Favre still needs a couple more years. With Favre now out of the NFL for good having not played during the 2011 season, the 42-year-old gunslinger and the team he led for 16 seasons the one he was later unceremoniously traded by -- can attempt to reunite and leave...
Via Fox Sports Wisconsin  |  9 days ago
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Packers plan to retire Brett Favre’s number

Brett Favre may be long gone from the Packers, and football in general (we think), but an ugly, high-profile parting of ways is not going to prevent his name from being etched forever into Green Bay lore. On Thursday, Packers president Mark Murphy told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that the team is aiming to retire Favre's number within the next two years, when it is "...
Via Helmet2Helmet  |  9 days ago
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Packers will wait 'year or two' before retiring Favre's number

The Green Bay Packers will wait at least another season to hold a ceremony to retire Brett Favre's No. 4. Packers president Mark Murphy said the team will wait "probably in a year or two," according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Favre led the Packers to two Super Bowl appearances and one title in 16 seasons before ending his career with stops with the New York...
Via Pro Sports Daily  |  9 days ago
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Brett Favre Auctions Off a Day of Pitch and Catch

Brett Favre is returning to the football field in Mississippi to loosen up the ole cannon but he’s not working out for NFL scouts. Favre auctioned off an opportunity to play catch with some lucky high schoolers with all of the proceeds going to the RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights. The winning bid was said to be around $5,750 and the winning bidder will have the chance...
Via Rant Sports  |  9 days ago
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Brett Favre Spotted at the Donut Hole

I love snapping pics from my phone T.. I’m pretty sure there’s a potential joke or two about Brett grubbing at the D-hole — We received this tip in our inbox, “Sitting by Brett Favre at the donut hole… Nothing like eating breakfast next to a famous NFL quarterback” I agree, just so long as he keeps his camera phone in his pocket. -TO Favre Forced...
Via Terez Owens  |  10 days ago
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Packers QB Coleman's mentor: Brett Favre?

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- If the newest quarterback of the Green Bay Packers happens to play a bit like Brett Favre, there's a perfectly good explanation as to why.In the seventh round of the NFL draft, the Packers selected B.J. Coleman out of Tennessee-Chattanooga. It was prior to the draft that Coleman was trained by Favre, who is remembered in Wisconsin as much for the drama that...
Via Fox Sports Wisconsin  |  28 days ago
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NFL rewind: Brett Favre 3 games, 3 INTs, 3 retirements

Brett Favre.  Perhaps his greatest strength was his greatest weakness.  In a survival of the fittest like tactic from the days of the Wild West, for 20 years Favre brought his gunslinger mentality to various cities throughout the NFL.  Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn’t, but the fact of the matter remains that when Favre
Via The Penalty Flag  |  March 07, 2012
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