How do we hate thee? Let us count the ways:
1. Trotting out your 70-year-old-or-so mother to fire the first salvo in this war. Instead of acting like a man, you trotted her out what seems like a hundred years ago to state how the Packers didn't want you back and how the Packers were not respecting you. Respect? How about respecting your mother and not requiring her to launch the first missle?
2. Your Brett Favre Foundation, supposedly a charitable foundation, has the same address as your business agent James "I'll throw anyone under the BUS for money" Cook. Hmmm, there are about 1,000 Freedom of Information requests pending on THIS supposed charitable foundation.
You know what they say—charity begins at home OR in the offices of my business agent. Or, as James "Bus" Cook allegedly says, "I need more money, so I need to get Brett another two- or three-year contract OR I'll need to Cook the charitable books a lot more."
3. Your pick in the 2008 NFC Championship game. Guess what, Brett? You were all constipated there. Cold, wasn't it? There were actually other teammates there who have families, talent, and even charitable foundations. But, you wanted a warm tent and, when it didn't happen, you just decided to try to stick it in somewhere. (Is your poor aim the reason your current wife Deanna threatened to leave you in the 90's?)
4. Trotting out your family once again in the recent Peter King SI statements. What a man you are, Brett, saying Deanna and your family said you should stop letting the Packers play you for a fool. Are you so in love with Bus Cook that his face morphs into Deanna's every time you talk to him?
You keep hiding behind your mother and Deanna. What's next? The Brett Favre-Bus Cook Cookbook in which you pretend to bake chocolate chip cookies from a secret recipe? Here's a recipe! Greatest Green Bay QB: take NFL championship and SB wins, mix, and the result is—BART STARR.
5. Once upon a time, books were written about you with titles such as Greatest NFL Quarterback, or, Beloved: The Brett Favre Story. Now, the titles will be: American Tragedy: A Man, His Agent, and Money, or The Favre/Cook Cookbook: Cooking Up Money While Hiding Behind Your Mother and Wife's Apron Strings.
6. We want to quit you, Brett Favre. We, the fans of a tiny team in a tiny city with tiny pocketbooks, want you to go away. We defended you through the addictions, the wild craziness in certain Northern Wisconsin bars, and ALL the interceptions in playoff games in which, despite your disclaimers, we knew the TEAM, not just you, got us there.
We, the fans of the Green Bay Packers, want to quit YOU, Brett. We want your mother and wife to be released from taking all the crap. We understand what hard work is and, frankly, it must be hell to have to point at women for all the crap just so you can pad your stats.
To Bonita and Deanna Favre, I can only say that women are the toughest and you two have certainly proved that. Sure, you are the benefactors of the money from Packer fans, some who make $10 an hour, and the benefactors of the Packer fans support (including making Brett the first $100 million NFL player) and Packer fan excuses for Brett over the years. But, it still must be tough to be the point-women who have to take the bullets for Brett and Bus. I'm just hoping you have a contract with Brett that pays you as much as Bus Cook is getting.
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Brian Keith Compton 11 months ago
There's a lot of innuedo in here. Little fact to build an argumnet for these assertions. In essence, character assassination. This isn't good journalism, and should be the kind of article a person should be held accountable for.
This sounds like a bunch of stuff that people espouse over drinks in some bar, like reading writing on the bathroom stalls.
You want people to believe your stories, give examples. Specific events that happened in bars. What proof of infidelity? Any evidence of charitable fraud? And tie all this into how this is affecting his current standoff with the Packer organization.
Fact is, you can't. Add it all up, and this is the kind of stuff that would draw a lawsuit if published in a newspaper. Why isn't the internet held up to the same standards? Are these the opinions of the Bleacher Report, as well? You give forum to articles like this?
You disgrace only yourself, Janean (the analyst) with writing like this.
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ethan bremmer 11 months ago
This article is bull. It is based of a whole lot of lies. Don't ever demoralize a foundation that a man that has worked hard to establish and raise money for. It is a foundation for breast cancer and Brett and his family have raised millions of dollars for it. What charity have you established? Favre fan or not, you need to think before you write an article that degrades a person that is a whole lot better than you are.
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Tony Robinson 11 months ago
Are you serious? You've got other althletes in and out of court, talking up how good they are, blowing their time and money on themselves and you've got to go after someone like Favre. Have you seen what Favre has done for the Make a Wish foundation? For brest cancer research?
Why are you using the term we? You obviously haven't been watching the same games as the rest of the Packer fans these last 16 or so years. If you were a fan, you wouldn't refer to The Greenbay Packers and Lambeau field as a "tiny team" and "tiny city".
I hope this article was written for shock appeal to try to get attention dispite lack of information and character. I the future, please refrain from posting articles on the internet. I am going to go and try to make up for the last ten minutes I wasted on this site.
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Bruce Dickenson 11 months ago
Is he saying he doesn't like Brett Favre? It wasn't clear.
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Shaun Ahmad 11 months ago
Irresponsible piece.
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Will D 11 months ago
"Janean" is the author? Sounds like an ignorant female that jus started paying attention to football so she can get paid writing this article. There is no way this person has paid any attention to NFL players prior this this summer. If she did, she would be writing articles about the criminals in the NFL not a beloved QB.
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Russell Burrows 11 months ago
Surely grist for the courts is all this nonsense is good for......."analyst", you're kidding me; loose-stool water, full of innuendo and pointed inference, but no facts. Why? Because the writer is clearly gutless, clueless and talent-less - I would suggest that Janean grab hold off the first offer of employment that comes her way (Burger King, Wendys, Ronnie Mac......it'll be one of those) and run with it. Pathetic.
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PackSmack 11 months ago
Brett's got more left in his rusty pair than you will ever have in the pair you seem to envy, wish you had or think you have. Giving all the credit to his mom and his wife and lamenting him for everything he ever gave to the team is a little desperate, don't you think?
Traitor.
You are now a Chicago Bear to the rest of us Packer fans. Go cheer for Urchlacher. We are ab-DITKA-ting you from the cheesehead community and banishing you to lifelong exile to Soldier Field where you will be forced to support the lowly and hated Bears forever.
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Janean Marti 11 months ago
Thanks for the reads and comments. And, yes, the article was over-the-top but that was precisely the point.
In his interview with Greta Van Susteren, Brett Favre stated the Packer organization told "untruths". And that's the point of my article. Anyone can throw out innuendos and opinions and say other people told "untruths".
The point is: can some people sling innuendos and accusations but others cannot?
Every year we hear NFL general managers say a team has no interest in trading for a player and then, days later, they sign him. So "untruths" are fairly rampant in the NFL and, for that matter, in all of sports.
Why doesn't Brett come out and say he wants to play for the Minnesota Vikings. Why not just say it? What's wrong with that? Why throw the entire Packer organization into flux and say the organization tells "untruths"? What "untruths" as it pertains to the Favre situation?
I agree my article was over-the-top and rather shoddy. But so is calling out an entire organization as untruthful.
You know the old adage about opinions and buttholes. I've learned my lesson. Thanks for pointing out the what should have been obvious holes :) in my article!
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Julie Whitmire 10 months ago
You are completely mindless and what you did NOT learn is that you are the butthole but I'm sure you should know you would have to remove your head from that dark spot to begin with. Maybe by then you could walk a little better. hum? Brett Favre has more care and concern in his small finger than you do in your tiny little some what of a brain.
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Damien Nichols 11 months ago
Janean, you claim to realize that your article was over the top, and have learned your lesson.... Well, I have read some of your recent articles...... and they all have one thing in common....They all suck. Do they seriously pay you for this..... Are you the person that gets paid only on page views? Or comments telling you what an idiot you are... If so, you are probably making good money, cause your are horrible. I really hope for your sake that you are doing this (all of your articles) for shock value and not because these are your actual thoughts and opinions. If these are truly your opinions, human beings around the world have just taken a step backwards, because of your incompetence. We would all appreciate it if you discontinued your "work".
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