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Brett Favre has been traded to the New York Jets. The Bucs were never in negotiations with Green Bay, said Bruce Allen - Bucs GM. Still there were no explanations as to why Allen let the rumors whirl around training camp, distracting players and coaches from what’s really important, or why Gruden had a phone conversation with Favre earlier this week. The Buccaneers didn’t even have an offer on the table. Regardless, Favre is a New York Jet, the Packers organization gets to move on like they wanted to, and Jeff Garcia will most likely get a new deal in the works because of damage control. In my mind, there are no real winners that come from this mess, there has been disgrace to the Packers organization for the handling of this situation and they should be ashamed of them selves, Favre doesn’t get to play for the Packers, or against them (this year), and the Jets are in the red as far as salary caps go. So maybe it’s not all over, the Jets (since being over the cap), can dangle Favre pretty high in the air over the Vikings heads, getting a lot out of them for Favre. That remains to be seen, but for now it’s over, and Brett Favre is the new New York Jets quarterback, a team that hasn’t won a championship since Super Bowl III. My question is: Say Favre didn’t throw that fateful interception in overtime to send the Giants to the Super Bowl and the Packers go on to win the Super Bowl. Would Brett have retired for good after that? Would the Packers have wanted him back? Would we all be talking more about the Jeremy Shockey and Jason Taylor trades?
The NFL wants YOU to cool it. When you are at an NFL game, you can no longer dump your beer over opponents fan’s heads. You cannot curse or make obscene gestures to other fans, players you hate, or players that just suck, in the stadium or tailgating in the parking lot. The NFL is attempting to make a more of a family atmosphere at all of their events, and if you violate the “NFL Code of Conduct” terms (in each case you agreed to the terms with buying a ticket), then you will be thrown out, banned, or your season tickets could be swiped away.
$50 Million to pay in Europe, you’d do it too. LeBron James has been contemplating a deal that would take him out of the NBA, and pay him $50 Million for one year of play somewhere in Europe. It should be an easy decision considering he’s probably not going win a championship in Cleveland, plus he’s still so young and could return after playing a few years over there and making a crap load of money.
This Tuesday, August 12th, Madden NFL 09 and the Madden Collector’s Edition- Madden XX will come out for sale. As you may know the cover of the video game bares Brett Favre in full Green Bay get-up. EA Sports announced that they did not have time to change Favre to a Jets uniform for the cover, but have a downloadable version that you can print with Favre in the new uniform on their website. We all know about the curse, so Favre could get injured pretty quickly, or some other voodoo could happen to him, as did all the players that were on the cover in previous years. But remember, each player stung by the curse played in the same uniform that year when the picture was taken, this year Favre is in a Packers uniform in the picture, but he plays in a Jets uni.
3200. That’s the number of Favre-Jets jerseys that were sold in one day. That’s a record, and a whole lot of people wearing Favre jerseys considering how much more they’ll sell. I know I’m getting one. The Jets website was even shut down for a few hours due to high traffic issues.
We could talk about the 2-1 loss to the Mariners, but let’s not. The Rays are amazingly in first place in the division this late in the season and I don’t know about you, but I smell playoffs for the first time in team history. If the Rays and Bucs both make the playoffs, for the first time in Tampa’s city history Tampa will have winning pro-baseball and pro-football teams in the same year. The Lighting don’t look to be any slouches either.
This past Thursday morning, the Fox 13 "Good Day Tampa" show took a shot at Jon Gruden when they poked fun at him talking about the whole Brett Favre situation after the trade when Gruden said it was a "20 20 Catch 20 situation". Gruden cleary meant Catch 22. With all screw ups by the anchors that are numorous every day, and the "technical difficulties" they have no reason to show that and poke fun at it.
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