Brett Favre Has Told The Jets He’s Retiring…Again

We’ve been robbed this morning, America (hey, I’m Bernie Mac). I know that like me, you were hoping to spend your whole spring and summer listening to all the latest reports from an ESPN reporter embedded in his shower on what Brett Favre was going to do. Would he retire? Come back? Force the Jets to trade or release him so he could go to the Vikings? All of that suspense we needed to get us through another long NFL offseason, it’s gone.


Brett Favre is retiring. Again. He may even mean it this time.

From ESPN:

In an e-mail to ESPN’s Ed Werder, Favre indicated he had no regrets about finishing his career with the Jets rather than with the Green Bay Packers franchise he represented for his previous 16 NFL seasons. He specifically praised Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum, team owner Woody Johnson and fired coach Eric Mangini — and even mentioned Thomas Jones and Kerry Rhodes, both of whom were publicly critical of Favre after the team’s collapse in the final month of the season prevented the Jets from making the playoffs.

“Mike and Woody, as well as the entire organization, have been nothing short of outstanding,” Favre said in the e-mail. “My teammates — Thomas and Kerry included — were a pleasure to play with. Eric [Mangini] could not have been any better. I enjoyed playing for him. My time with the Jets was short, but I’m honored to be given that chance.”

Now obviously this is Brett Favre we’re talking about. Just because he says he’s retiring that doesn’t mean we should assume he means it this time. In fact, I’m setting the over/under at May 15th for when he “gets the itch” to play again. Then after the Jets have signed or drafted a quarterback and have no place for him on the team, it’ll be a lot easier for him to force them to release him so he can go to Minnesota.

And he’ll do all of it while wearing Wrangler jeans.