I Wonder if Fran Tarkenton is Available?

As everyone knows by now, the Packers have offered Brett Favre $20,000,000 to stay home (I put the zeros there for emphasis instead of the customary $20M or $20 Million to illustrate how unbelievably absurd the NFL has become).

It serves further to illustrate how asinine it is to allow franchise owners to hold major market communities hostage by threatening to move clubs to more agreeable venues. If the Vikings threaten to leave the Twin Cities because we won’t give Zygi $200,000,000 I say fine. There is no way you can justify the expenditure of public money for the construction of a sports facility any more, which is probably why the Vikings stadium issue hasn’t floated to the top of the news pile of late.

I say screw them and the Sex Boat they rode in on.

I get the fact that Green Bay doesn’t want Brett Favre to end up with a division rival but his arrival on the roster is by no means a guarantee of a division title let alone a Super Bowl.

I have a hunch that Brett retired for a reason.

History shows that mature, overpaid primadona athletes are as likely to implode in these scenarios than propel their teams to national championships. Ladies and Gentlemen, Herschel Walker.

As such, how can it possibly be worth $20,000,000 to keep Brett on ice? You can buy a lot of grass seed for twenty million. Crap, you can buy the team a new airplane for that.

Oh, and furthermore, in alignment with the boss around here, …who the hell cares.

5 thoughts on “I Wonder if Fran Tarkenton is Available?

  1. Farve is kind of like the family china. You want to use it for special occasions, but it’s too old and fragile for everyday use.

  2. Isn’t this more than he ever earned playing? Surreal. Is he trying to hang on to football past his prime, or has he squandered his money a la Lew Alcindor? Remember Kareem going with “LA Gear” in his last couple of seasons because he was broke–after earning something like $40 million in the game?

  3. Isn’t this more than he ever earned playing?

    If I read the deal right, it is $20M for ten years, so it probably is less than he made playing, annually.

  4. The 20 mil wasn’t a buyoff. It was the value of a personal services contract. Basically paying him to make appearances, do marketing things etc and be the face of the Pack. And the offer has been out there since March. But other than those 2 major omissions, this post was fair…

    …ly wrong.

  5. The 20 mil wasn’t a buyoff. It was the value of a personal services contract. Basically paying him to make appearances, do marketing things etc and be the face of the Pack.

    …and meanwhile not playing for anyone else, right?

    Semantics.

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