Green Bay is offering Brett Favre $20 million to stay retired. And Favre is actually considering it

SCOTT JACOBS

Sports is a business. Athletes say it. Coaches say it. General managers say it.

Loyalty is a thing of the past.

Players and teams don’t take things as seriously as they once did. Rivalries are self created by fans and the media.

Jason Taylor once signed a Tampa Bay Bucs Super Bowl Champions shirt for me, because I had nothing else on me.

He had been a Dolphin for life!

So when Brett Favre, who has taken the media on the roller-coaster sports ride of the summer, says he is contemplating accepting Green Bay’s stunning $20 million offer not to play, and to basically re-retire, it should not shock anyone.

Key word there: “should.”

But it does.

I am stunned. Shocked. A bit appalled.

Brett Favre is considering being bought off.

The only thing missing is him saying, “This was the only way it could end.”

Retired. Un-Retired. Reinstatement letter. No reinstatement letter?

And this could be the conclusion? Favre giving a shrug and taking $20 million (money he doesn’t need) to fade into retirement and join the Packers marketing and merchandising team?

That’s the price?

When an athlete says they have that desire to play it usually doesn’t come with the line– “unless you pay me X amount of dollars.”

When this story was first reported Green Bay looked desperate. They looked like the team that was a joke and their inability to handle matters was being scrutinized everywhere. But now, with Favre contemplating the offer, and claiming it just might be the best for all sides, he looks like the jerk.

It may not be intended, but it looks on the surface that he came out of retirement to milk the Packers for more money so he could re-retire agan.

It sounds ridiculous, but Favre has basically told the Packers that if he can’t play with them he wants to remain in the division. Why in the world would Green Bay do that! This is the same guy that said he doesn’t want to create a distraction. I’m begining to lose all respect for the guy.

If you want to play Brett, play!

The Packers will eventually deal you or release you. If you want all of this to go away as fast as it started, retire. But don’t take this contract. This doesn’t make you the hero, the good guy saving face for both the player and the franchise. No, this further promotes the “greedy athlete stereotype.”

Favre looks horrible right now.

The thought he’s mulling this over simply says I’m not that serious about this comeback thing.

If I were a team interested in Favre, my interest would disappear after hearing this.

What kind of athlete is bought off like that?

If Favre wants to work with the Packers in merchandising and marketing, shocking considering the two have been ripping each other back and forth this month, then fine. But let the contract be signed behind closed doors.

Green Bay offering to pay you $20 million not to play? That’s sick! And not in a cool gnarly way.

No, it’s sick when people are struggling to pay for gas, and closing businesses left and right, while you’re mulling over $20 million to leave the game you claim to love.

I love sports. I do.

But this is one of those nauseating situations where teams and players don’t get it.

Take the $20 million. Do it.

Give it to charity. Do some good with the money you don’t need.

But don’t take it, and claim to be the good guy.

You’ll only make me nauseas.

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