We’re probably not done yet, as sometime this summer someone will ask Brett Favre, picking weeds from his lawn in Hattiesburg, Miss., once again if he is considering another season, somewhere.
More than likely, Favre will ask and answer his own question.
It just goes with the territory.
The answer should be and will be no, but lost with the sure Hall of Fame quarterback is his rambling podium conferences, where Favre was a master of turning one question into several of his own. This isn’t Washington, where reporters fire questions at the press secretary or a murder movie where 50 TV reporters launch a gazillion questions at the defendant who was acquitted.
It’s Favre. 24-7.
Here’s a sampling of quotes where Favre just takes over, becoming the interviewer and the interviewee this season compiled from The AP, Star Tribune and Pioneer Press:
Was it cold? I’ve played in colder.†– Referring to game at TCF Bank Stadium. “Everyone wants to talk about me being 40. I’m fine,” Favre said, weighing the pros and cons of the bye while declaring himself fit for the playoff run either way. “Would it help? I’m sure it would. But I’m fine.” It’s been asked a bunch. And it would be easy for me to say, ‘Yeah. You know, I was hoping to come back and be 8-0 at this point,’” Favre said. “Sure, I was hoping that. Did I think we would be 3-5? No.”Favre, quoted by The Associated Press after his club’s 17-13 win over the Redskins in which Favre’s 10-yard scramble on 3rd-and-8 late in the fourth quarter helped seal the victory: “Did I expect to run for a first down? I haven’t expected to run for a first down in quite a while. It was 10 yards? Really? It felt like 50. But we needed that win.”
“The question’s been asked it seems like every week. ‘You glad you came back?’†Favre said this week, as he prepared for the game against his former team, the Green Bay Packers, at Mall of America Field. “Am I pleased with the way the season has gone up to this point? Absolutely not. But there’s still some hope left, but that is diminishing. We’ll put what’s happened up to this point in the past and see if we can change it.â€
“Can you be effective if you play?” was the question Favre said he’ll ask himself next week. “If the answer is yes, if I think I can, I would love to play and see this through.”
“Is Toby an explosive player like Adrian? I don’t think anyone is,†Favre said. “But he’s pretty darn good.â€
“I can’t say I was surprised or shocked,” Favre said of the move to Frazier. “I was probably more – and when I say this, I’m talking Monday and even Sunday after the game – it’s kind of the way our season has gone. I think back to how we played or didn’t play in this past game as opposed to who was coaching or not coaching us. Because ultimately it falls back on the players individually, whether you like your coach, you get along with him, agreed with what is called or not called. You still have to play and I think it would be easy to pass the buck off on the next player or next coach or past coach. It’s the way this business works. Coaches usually go first. Players, you can’t get rid of everybody right now. You wouldn’t field a team.”
