Apparently a story on Green Bay Press Gazette's website is reporting that Mark Murphy offered Favre upwards of $20 Million in "hush-money" over the next 10 years to stay retired.  You heard that right...a full-on bribe attempt to one of the greatest football players ever...Surreal.

I should be surprised, but I am not at this point.  This PR nightmare has twisted and turned so many different directions every couple hours that nothing surprises me anymore.  The only thing that does surprise me about this whole mess is that nobody has wound up dead in Lake Michigan in Wisconsin or in the Gulf down by Mississippi(!)

The fall from grace of both Favre and the Packers as an organization is astounding.  I am only 29 years old but I have never seen a soap opera like this in professional sports.  I never thought I would say this, but if they did indeed try to bribe Favre to stay retired then they are simply scared to death that Aaron Rodgers will not work out in the long term in Green Bay and they could not bear to see Favre come into Lambeau wearing a purple jersey and kicking our a$$.  It sounds like Packers Management isn't playing to win, they are simply playing not to lose.

The only sensible way to put this to bed would be to release Favre.  If he goes to the Vikings then so be it--we have joined ourselves at the hip with Rodgers according to McCarthy and Thompson and there is apparently no turning back.  If the Packers want to cut off their nose to spite their face that's fine, but they won't be able to smell the big steaming pile of you-know-what that they just stepped in.

Favre obviously isn't blameless in this whole fiasco but he called the Packer's bluff and, rather than play hardball back, the Packers got caught so far off guard by everything that has transpired during the past week or so that they have behaved like a captain on a sinking ship--and they're going down with the ship right before our very eyes.

By the way: The Packers should not let TT do any more PR on their behalf--he has the charisma of a cinder-block and doesn't really relate well to Joe-Packer fan.