Oct 23 2008
Brett Favre Giving Secrets to the Lions
This story cracks me up. Brett Farve has admitted that he talked to Matt Millen but didn’t give competitive secrets to the Detroit Lions about how to beat his former team:
The New York Jets quarterback acknowledged yesterday that he spoke to former Detroit president Matt Millen a few weeks ago, but denied reports he called Millen and gave him and Lions coaches information they could use in a game against the Green Bay Packers.
Favre, who had a bitter split with the Packers in the offseason, said Millen called to invite him to go hunting. The friends then briefly talked about football.
This is the biggest non-story in sports. Favre was with the Packers for 16 years and in the end, he experienced what many aging players experience: a team that doesn’t need him anymore. Why shouldn’t he help a friend keep his job? Farve moved on and now is helping others to beat the team that jilted him. Who wouldn’t?
Of course, his former teammates feel a bit betrayed:
Favre said he had heard quotes from the Packers locker room accusing him of sabotaging the team, but he said he was only doing what many players and coaches do around the league, which is to share information. He claimed that what he was doing was not out of bounds in the football world.
Asked about his former teammates’ reaction, he intimated that they were being influenced by higher-ups in the Packers organization who have a bone to pick with him.
If Brett did give intimate secrets to the Lions about beating the Packers, it didn’t do much good. Green Bay beat Detroit 48-25 even with Brett’s secret knowledge. Of course, giving the Lions the secrets to beating the Packers would be like giving a Rubik’s Cube to a dog: they lack the physical dexterity to do anything with the it but drop it on the floor and try to bite it.
