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How long will it be before Brett Favre is welcomed back to Lambeau Field? |
 | By Dave Begel  Special to OnMilwaukee.com E-mail author | Author bio More articles by Dave Begel |
| Published Feb. 17, 2009 at 4:44 a.m. |
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Today, we are all going to pretend that we are wives.
If you are a married woman, this should be easy. If you are a married man it won't be all that tough. If you are a single woman, this ought to be a piece of cake. If you're a single man, then you'll have to stretch your imagination.
Here's the deal...
You've been married for quite awhile. Maybe a dozen years. Maybe 16. You really love your husband. And he was a great, great husband.
He worked hard. He took care of you and the kids. He made a good living. Other wives wished their husbands were like him.
He had a great sense of humor. He was just about the best husband you could ever imagine. Some people said he was the best husband there ever was.
Then, he slipped up. He didn't mean it, but circumstances conspired against him. The two of you had a spat. More than a quarrel, but less than a full-fledged fight.
He ran out of the house and headed for a bar downtown, where the lights were dim, the music was loud and the drinks were cold. As luck would have it, that cute secretary who has been flirting with him, was in the same bar.
He called you on his cell phone from the bar, asking you to let him come back. You told him he could come back if he said he apologized and said he was sorry.
He didn't. He ended up going home with the cute secretary. People saw them out, at the theater and having dinner in fancy restaurants.
Your life continued. You explained what happened to your kids, and they took your side. That handsome teacher took you out for dinner, but he was a little too young, even though you liked him a lot.
Your husband hung out with that cute secretary for a short period of time, but then he decided he didn't really like her that much, and left her house.
He was adrift. Nobody in town saw him and you didn't know what he was thinking.
What do you do now?
The easy thing to do is not even talk to him. Just let him suffer.
But all your life, people have talked about what a wonderful person you are. The word people use about you all the time is "special."
How should you act now?
If you really are "special," you know what to do.
Forget holding a grudge. Forget being petty. Forget teaching him and everybody else a lesson.
Open your heart. Open the doors to your house. Tell him that you love him now and you'll always love him. Tell him you realize that things were said in the heat of the argument that you didn't really mean.
Tell him you forgive him. Tell him to come home.
And tell him that you will retire his jersey No. 4 during the first home game at Lambeau Field.
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Posted by Broner on Feb. 19, 2009 at 12:52 p.m. (report)
excuseme, please don't act like Favre was an innocent victim of TT's runaway ego. I loved the guy on the field but off the field, his own ego got out of control. He's even admitted that he wanted to play last year just to prove TT wrong. Well, I think he proved TT right. Now, for the love of god, let's let this thing go.
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Posted by sandstorm on Feb. 19, 2009 at 9:20 a.m. (report)
excuseme, you're getting tripped up in your own semantics. if this had nothing to do with last year what are you upset about? ted thompson did nothing to erase the previous 16 years. those years are in the bank and will go down in packer lore forever. you're acting like thompson somehow erased the record book when in reality what he did was best for the team in 2008. favre fans claim to be also football fans, yet somehow cannot grasp the concept that it is a team sport. favre was not above the game, and shouldn't have put himself before his team, and this "mess" would have never happened.
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Posted by excuseme on Feb. 19, 2009 at 8:10 a.m. (report)
This has nothing to do with what he has done this year and what he could have done if he had stayed with the Packers. It has to do with what The Packers did to a guy who gave us everything--he gave us enjoyment, he played hurt and never called in sick and we will probably never see another quarterback like him again. Do you know what Bear fans would do to have a quarterback like him the past 16 years? They had about 10 different quarterbacks and none of them were good. This all could have been avoided if Ted T didn't have an ego problem.
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Posted by sandstorm on Feb. 18, 2009 at 8:54 p.m. (report)
don't think the Jets would not have preferred Rodgers to Favre last year. in the game of "what if" that Favre fans love to play- what if Favre were the packers QB last year and Rodgers was the jets QB? packers : 3-13 jets: 11-5 and playoffs and to call the packers defense "leaky" is being way too charitable.
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Posted by Captool73 on Feb. 18, 2009 at 7:44 p.m. (report)
Hey excuseme, did you see Favre's last games with the Jets? Do you seriously belive that he would have done any better with the Packers this season? Let it go. Brett is way past his prime. He might be able to play well in a game or two. A whole season? Take a look at his last few years.
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