According to separate reports the Green Bay Packers have both talked internally about trading Brett Favre within the division and (according to www.620wtmj.com) offered the quarterback $20 million to stay retired.
Apparently the latter was to no avail – Jim Rome this afternoon cited ESPN in saying that Favre has chartered a flight to Green Bay.
Mark Murphy released a statement cited by WTMJ in which he said he and Favre had a nice visit. But it sounds like the split is getting uglier and uglier. Kind of sad… sort of.
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I can’t believe that offering a guy money to stay away isn’t somehow a violation of the rules. If it’s not, it should be.
What, are you some kind of commie liberal? Why shouldn’t a team be able to make an offer like that if they want to?
Not illegal from the government needs to step in and arrest someone, just seems like it should be some sort of cap violation, even if he’s on the retired list. Just seems wrong.
More importantly, if you’re a Packers fan, you have be asking yourself why they wouldn’t want him as the starting QB if they are that worried about him going elsewhere to play for another team.
Ahh, well a cap violation is a different issue. I wouldn’t have a problem if the payment counted against their salary cap. Otherwise it situation could get out of hand. We could have the big money teams paying billions to keep players off the field. Jerry Jones might write a heft check to kept Manning from showing up to camp.