Favre: 'I would like to continue longer' with Pack

**cycloneace55** · 01-10-2008, 04:10 PM

As a Vikings fan I would love to finally see him retire, but as a football fan I love the passion he brings to the game. As far as I am concerned he can play as long as he wants to. I have never seen him as the sort of player to bask in the limelight, granted he has made some poor decisions in the past but never went out of his way to put himself at the center of media attention. I think most of the attention he has gotten comes part and parcel with being one of the best QBs in the history of the game. If he wanted attention he would not go to his farm in Kiln Miss. during the offseason and have a house in Los Angeles. Plus he would have tried to further his stellar acting career after the rave reviews from "Somthing About Mary"

**ISUFan22** · 01-10-2008, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by CTTB78

This guy is the classic example of the jock that will never know when to walk away. With all the records, all the money, it will take a major injury for him to call it quits. The limelight is just too strong.

When I think of the word "jock", Favre is not a guy that comes to mind as fitting that label. Plus, that word has always carried a negative connotation to it, a word that is often paired with "dumb". Favre, is not a dumb man.

Does he love to compete? Obviously. Is he fond of the attention? Probably, yet who doesn't love to hear their name mentioned alongside and even above some of the best players ever?

**wonkadog** · 01-10-2008, 04:21 PM

As a Bears fan I can't stand the guy but I'd love to see him stick around for a few more years. That just means that you keep on knowing what you've got in Green Bay. A pretty good football team year in and year out, sometimes a really good football team when things go their way (like this year), sometimes a below average football team when Favre is throwing INTs (like last year). That being said, they aren't a team that scares me as a Bears fan like the Patriots or Colts would (a team that you can't ever overtake to win the division). As far as I see it, if he stays around a few years he just holds back the progression of A.R. I don't care how you spin it, you can only get so much out of holding the starting QB's jock without getting any playing time, no matter how great that QB happens to be.

**CTTB78** · 01-10-2008, 05:05 PM

[quote=jtd9046;315833]Why should he hang it up?

As the Vikings Robert Smith said when he retired at the top of his game-- "I want to be to walk when I'm 50."

**jbing** · 01-10-2008, 06:44 PM

I don't see why he shouldn't come back next year. Let's hypothetically say they don't win the Super Bowl this year, Favre is going to come back to a VERY strong and much more experienced team. He will come back to a solid running game and hopefully get some more defensive help in the draft/free agency during the off season. He could still have one more great season.

The big downside is that the Packers are looking like a college football team. You have some promising underclassmen (Grant, Hawk, Jennings) and you have the outgoing seniors (Favre, Driver, KGB). What Packers fans have to hope is that there isn't a mass exodus of players when Favre decides to hang it up. If I were an older player like Donald Driver, I would certainly examine my career future after Superman checks out. That could be bad news for the Packers and could put them into a series of rebuilding years.