No Favre’s No.4 Packers Jersey at Lambeau Yet

It looks like the scheduled retirement of Favre’s No.4 jersey at Lambeau is now put on hold.

In case you haven’t heard, Brett Favre has postponed retirement yet again and has showed his intentions to play in the 2008-09 NFL football season. The problem is, the Packers have already committed to start their ‘’QB for the future’’ Aaron Rodgers and as far as Favre’s place in the team is concerned, he may have to be contented with a backup role to the new starting quarterback.

Of course, being the competitor that Brett Favre is, he doesn’t want to play backup to anyone, EVER. Leading him to ask the team for his immediate release and make that now infamous phone call to the Minnesota Vikings.

The Green Bay Packers organization has been accusing the Vikings of exchanging ‘’secret messages’’ with the future Hall-of-Famer since. Sure, the Vikings are denying it but since they are one of the bitter rivals of Lambeau Field, Favre probably figured that if his team doesn’t want to give him his old spot back, he’ll just sign with the enemy to further infuriate the team that no longer wants him.

If Favre did sign with the Minnesota Vikings, I wonder how will Favre be received when the Vikings visit the Packers at Lambeau in the coming season? Hmm…

The Packers organization seem to be confused on how to deal with this situation. They are, after all, on the verge of losing the city’s icon to another team, something that their fans won’t forgive them for, EVER. At least for now, they have decided to put the scheduled ‘’Brett Favre No.4 jersey retirement‘’ on hold, not because Favre could sign with another team but because of the mere fact that Favre ain’t retired just yet.

‘’We’re going to retire Brett’s number at some point,’’ Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy said. ‘’Regardless of whether it’s this year, it’ll be sometime in the future. We’ll wait and see, but I think it’s still enough up in the air that we want to wait and see how things play out.’’

‘’Quite a few people look at the situation and say, ‘Boy, that’s really a tough one,”’ Murphy adds, referring to Favre asking to be released from the team. ‘’You know, you’ve got an iconic player [who] has meant so much to the team. But with all the circumstances, the organization moved on after he retired. So I think people realize that it’s a pretty delicate, sensitive situation and we’re trying to handle it the best we can.’’

There are rumors that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, led by coach Jon Gruden, a guy who just loves veteran quarterbacks, are also interested in signing Favre. Whatever the case may be, one thing’s for sure, Favre will improve a team’s chances for a title, wherever he decides to go.

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