Brett Favre: Welcome to Retirement

Brett Favre spent his first few days of freedom wild boar hunting.

Teammate Frank Winters thinks that Favre will have no problem finding things to keep him occupied other than football.

Winters suggests "knocking down trees and stuff" on his tractor.

Favre hasn't officially filed his retirement papers yet, but he just thinks that's a formal step, and plans to do it later.

When receiver Donald Driver was asked whether or not Favre would come back for a ceremonial coin toss to start the 2008 NFL season, he laughed.

"He ain't coming back for no coin toss," Driver laughed. "He's going to be a ghost. That's the thing—he has to get away from the game for a little while."

The prospect of a return from retirement, not unlike that of Michael Jordan, is also considered highly unlikely around the Packers camp.

"I don't know," Driver said of Favre's future in football. "It'd be hard to say."

Green Bay Packers president and chief executive, Mark Murphy, a former safety for the Washington Redskins, said retirement is extremely tough to cope with.

"I didn't really miss training camp, didn't really miss the minicamps," Murphy recalled. "But when the games came around in the fall, that's when it really becomes difficult to see your teammates and friends playing. But people have gone through it. And he obviously thought it through. He really knew that it was time for him to step down."

A popular idea in Green Bay, and around the country for that matter, is for Favre to "pull a Tiki." That is, return to the NFL via a television network.

Winters disagrees: "I really don't think he'll really get into that stuff right now," said Winters of Favre as a commentator. "Maybe a few years from now. Who knows?"

When I look at some of the comments on ESPN, it gives me the impression that Packers fans think Favre is gone too:

"I have a funny feeling that the next time we see Favre it will be when he is getting inducted into the Hall of Fame!" -TrackguyRH 

"Brett is still a country boy. Now he gets to be the original Brett Favre every day for the rest of his life." -jdebose004 

"I absolutely cannot see Brett Favre enjoying a commentating job even in a few years." -flaxman0

Andrew Kneeland writes for Bleacher Report. You can view all his articles here.

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