Favre uses Packer phone to contact Vikings (Freerepublic sports dept flash)

yahoo.com ^ | Wednesday, Jul 23, 2008 9:31 am EDT

[InvisibleChurch]

Brett Favre might want to invest in his own cell phone

It's not as poetically idiotic as Chris Henry getting arrested while wearing his own jersey, but this one's in the same neighborhood.

Remember those tampering charges that the Packers filed against the Vikings? And remember how I thought it would be difficult for the Packers to prove that Favre had made inappropriate contact with the Vikings?

Well, that assumed that Brett Favre wasn't using a Packers-issued cell phone to make those calls to the Vikings. As it turns out, Favre may have done exactly that.

From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:

...Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had an interesting bit of information in a piece he wrote about the quarterback today.

McGinn writes that a source said Favre had continued to use a Packers-issued cell phone and that when the team checked the phone records it found “repeated calls to coach Brad Childress and offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell.”

The possibility of Favre having used a phone issued by the Packers had been speculated on last week after the Associated Press reported that Green Bay informed the NFL it felt “an investigation of the phone records would show more than ‘normal contact’ between the Vikings and Favre, even before he formally asked for his release to play for another team.”

In fairness to Favre, it should be mentioned that any phone calls he made to the Vikings were made in a gunslinging fashion, and through the entire conversation, he looked like a kid out there, just having fun.

[InvisibleChurch]

[Slapshot68]

Did it look like this?

[WayneS]

I’m almost afraid to ask what a Packer Phone is...

[thefactor]

this guy is such a moron.

[AU72]

The cheese on his head has gotten mouldy.

[mdk1960]

Well, Favre is great and has been great for the Pack. But nobody is bigger than the “G” on the jersey.

[Sue Perkick]

This was just a rumor last week. Love that it turned out to be true. What an idiot.

Retire already Brett. For real this time. You’re done.

[Sue Perkick]

Got that right!

[milwguy]

he was calling an audible with is packer phone....’Vikings 94 west on three!’

[JRandomFreeper]

Bart ping.

yeah, I know.... whatever.

/johnny

[Cedric]

Correction: Moron, ingrate, disloyal and presumptuous.

[SengirV]

Yes, and if the team-issued cell phone was not included as part of his contract, then the team is in violation of the salary cap. The NLF doesn’t like when it’s dirty laundry is out on full display. So expect the packers to be getting a slap on the wrist as well. In fact, the pack better come clean now on all those cell phones that players are/have been issued for years now.

[Terabitten]

He needs to retire.

Unless, of course, he comes to my beloved Carolina Panthers.

[KarlInOhio]

Smack upside the head for using the Packers' phone.

[McGruff]

a source said Favre had continued to use a Packers-issued cell phone and that when the team checked the phone records it found “repeated calls to coach Brad Childress and offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell.”

Must have been a TrackPhone. Bwaah.

[Billthedrill]

Oh, come now. Does anybody really believe Favre would be stupid enough to...

Uh...

I withdraw the question, Yer Honor...

[rod1]

Yes I suppose he has taken one too many blows to the head to be left in charge of any teams’s huddle.

Not the brightest decision maker around.

He probably forgot the cell phone was Packer-issued because it was an accessory of his standard Packer BMW.

[Finalapproach29er]

Insert joke about the Mississippi school system here.

[NormsRevenge]

Well, Favre is great and has been great for the Pack. But nobody is bigger than the “G” on the jersey.

..or on the cellphone case.

[NormsRevenge]

Go 4!

[Sig Sauer P220]

ROFLMFAO!

[ryan71]

He’s a legend but...

You can’t go out crying and then think you’re coming back.

Brett, stay home and get ready for deer season.

[Miles the Slasher]

“Yes, and if the team-issued cell phone was not included as part of his contract, then the team is in violation of the salary cap. The NLF doesn’t like when it’s dirty laundry is out on full display. So expect the packers to be getting a slap on the wrist as well. In fact, the pack better come clean now on all those cell phones that players are/have been issued for years now.”

Perhaps it’s a taxable benefit as well? IRS calling Mr. Favre.

[Minn]

If the calls are all one way (Favre to Viking coaches), the Vikes should file a counter tampering claim. A member of the Packers attempting forbidden contact with Viking staff.

[N3WBI3]

Nothing would be as bitter for the Packers fans as to be struck with the image of Favre with a Vikings gear on come opening day...

[Cedric]

Favre is not a member of the Packers. He's retired.

[Cedric]

Never happen.

Rams, Raiders, Jets, Chiefs, Falcons.

[N3WBI3]

Yea I just cant see the pack letting out of his contract to up 94...

[Cedric]

Remember when Jim Ringo pissed-off Lombardi? He traded him to the Colts, by far the worst team in the league at that time.

Jonathan Ogden just retired from the Ravens.

Since it is the Left Tackle who protects a hight-handed Quarterback's blind side....

[Sue Perkick]

But we would all be laughing by the end of the season.

[Mozie]

Thanks Johnny.

Vince is rolling in his grave.

[Mozie]

Oh, good lord. Now he's being offered a book deal to tell his side of the story.

This has gotten beyond ridiculous.

[JRandomFreeper]

I can't say much, looking at what I'm doing to pay the bills.

Guy's gotta eat.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

I do still keep Lombardi time.... "If you are 5 minutes early.... YOU'RE 10 MINUTES LATE!"

Served me well over the years, and the coach (retired Marine Col.) that pounded that into me was a Lombardi fan.

Go figure.

/johnny

[Mozie]

Well, I don't think money is the issue in his case.

Now if they offered YOU six figures to tell your life story..........THAT I'd spend money on.:-)

[Mozie]

Here’s a great Lombardi quote that I just heard for the first time: “The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.”

[JRandomFreeper]

THAT I'd spend money on.:-)

It would/should be censored. And that would be the right thing(tm) to do. Really.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

In other words... "Lead by example from the front"

/johnny

[ops33]

Actually, he is still under contract with the Packers, even if he is “retired.” What he wants is for the Packers to release him from the remainder of his contract so he can play with another team (insert Vikings here) before he becomes too old to play.

[JRandomFreeper]

He IS too old to play. I left the USAFR because I got too old to play. Getting old sucks, and strips us of our former places... but the kids have it now.

Personally, I've saved a lot of money by not buying glucosamine to keep my knees from falling apart after running a few miles.

Nothing wrong with fading away.

/johnny

[ops33]

You’re right, he is getting too old to play.

What did you do in the Reserves?

[scott says]

NFL PING

FReepmail scott says to be added to, or to be taken off the NFL Ping list...

This is a fairly high volume ping list

[Northern Yankee]

Hi Mozie...

What next?

Are we entering the Twilight Zone?

[JRandomFreeper]

I deployed, SMSgt. Over and over.

/johnny

[Mozie]

Isn't this just surreal?

Just heard on the radio..........a resolution SHOULD take place within 48 hours.

We'll see.

Tomorrow is the shareholders' meeting. That should be interesting.

[Mozie]

p.s. I had lunch at Lambeau Field yesterday. Wow, was it crowded.......tours, sightseers, gawkers, media, shoppers, lunchers, etc. etc. etc.

Curly's makes a great beer/cheese soup.:-)

[InvisibleChurch]

bupm

[JRandomFreeper]

It could be worse, you might have to have lunch in Dallas.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

I took care of folks. I fed people. I was Combat Services.

This time around.

Last time, I was Old Crow, working electronic warfare.

Stuff changes. I don't hear so good anymore.

/johnny

[Mozie]

Lunch in Dallas???