Glanville finally confirms he had Favre trade

by greenbay packers backer on Mar 18, 2010 6:28 PM CDT

Jerry Glanville now is admitting he's the one who traded Brett Favre out of Atlanta.Back in the mid-to-late 1990s, the former Falcons coach said former Falcons General Manager Ken Herock was the mover behind tradng Favre back in 1992. Herock always maintained it was Glanville who wanted to get rid of Favre. In more recent years, Glanville has talked about Favre's excessive drinking in his one year with the Falcons but has not directly said he wanted to trade him.But in a recent radio interview with WNSR in Nashville, via a post on ProFootballTalk.com, Glanville said he had Favre traded after his rookie season."I had to get him out of Atlanta. ... I could not sober him up," Glanville said. "I sent him to a city where at 9:00 at night the only thing that's open is Chili Joes. You can get it two ways, with or without onions. And that's what made Brett Favre make a comeback was going to a town that closed down. If I would have traded him to New York, nobody to this day would have known who Brett Favre ever was."

I know copy and pasting is a cheap way to make a post however...........the content warrants it is done so everyone could read it. The "....I could not sober him up" quote jumped out at me.

Thoughts??

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Is he implying...

…there are no bars in Wisconsin?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

AAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

HAHAH

Ha.

Um, yeah ok Glanville.

by Archibaldcrane on Mar 18, 2010 8:01 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs

It's Chili John's Jerry...

…and you can get cheese and oyster crackers too, beans, spaghetti or both…

by soliman on Mar 18, 2010 9:09 PM CDT reply actions

sour grapes

atlanta hasn’t been sober since !!!

by gothicpurple on Mar 18, 2010 9:59 PM CDT reply actions

Even Glanville knows....

that it was Green Bay that made Brett Favre.

Not the other way around.

"No player is greater than a team."
-Vince Lombardi

by Jabooty on Mar 18, 2010 10:14 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs

sober

I lived in GB till 10 yrs ago, and I can tell you for damn sure that Favre wasn’t very sober in his first 5 yrs or so in GB!!! I can’t begin to tell you how many times I saw #4, Chewy and Winters out!!! They were very well known party animals!!!

So I would have to disagree w/ Glanville in that sense… #4 was still doing ALOT more drinking than he should have and more than the vast majority of us!!!

by Strohman on Mar 19, 2010 1:34 AM CDT reply actions

Yeah, send him to the state KNOWN for alcoholics to sober up…good call. They may not have the night life of Atlanta, but trust me there is plenty to drink in GB. It might be tougher to be under the radar there though which helps.

The facts, as you stated Stroh, are that he DIDN’T sober up. It wasn’t until his now wife gave him the ultimatum that he finally cleaned his life up…nice try to take the credit Glanville but it had NOTHING to do with you. AND that has NOTHING to do with why you traded him, give me a break. You were given a mid round 1st rounder for him which for a QB who hadn’t done anything yet and slid to the second round was a real nice price!

by TrevorR on Mar 19, 2010 9:19 AM CDT up reply actions

We are talking about Wisconsin though...

So it’s all relative I guess. We lead the nation in binge drinking…

Some See Big Problem in Wisconsin Drinking – NY Times

Drinking deeply ingrained in Wisconsin’s culture – JSOnline

Wisconsin: The Binge Drinking State? – Associated Content

by soliman on Mar 19, 2010 6:52 AM CDT reply actions

Yeah this article cracked me up

The only thing to do in Wisconsin or Minnesota is hunt, fish and drink. The man fails to realize that when ‘everything’ closes down bars pretty much stay open…

He’s just trying to take credit for another man’s accomplishments.

It's a lot easier to love the Vikings when they win...

by Grime on Mar 19, 2010 8:03 AM CDT reply actions

You can add Iowa to that list of states! : )

by BirdDogUni on Mar 21, 2010 8:44 AM CDT up reply actions

It's like Wisconsin without Big Cities or Lakes

Who's leg do I have to hump to get a drink around here?-Brian

by fliphawk4 on Mar 21, 2010 11:54 PM CDT up reply actions

"one mans trash, is another mans treasure"

by hermitcrab on Mar 19, 2010 10:05 AM CDT reply actions

Actually...

… back when he was on the NFL Today on CBS, he admitted the trade was all him. He said then that Favre was drinking constantly and goofing off in practice, so when Wolf offered a #1 for him he took it, since they only spent a #2 to get him the first place. It was only years later that he claimed the trade was Herock’s idea, which everyone knew was crap since Glanville had famously disapproved of drafting Favre in the first place.

I suspect that version is a lot closer to the truth than Glanville’s revisionist line that he was just trying to help Favre clean himself up enough to succeed.

What begins in fear usually ends in folly.

by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Mar 20, 2010 2:58 PM CDT reply actions

Where I grew up in Wisconsin

distance to nearest city (pop ~50,000): 10 miles
distance to nearest village (pop ~500): 5 miles
distance to nearest bars: 2 miles

So, yeah. Wisconsin may not be the greatest place in the world to come to dry out.

by DaveInTucson on Mar 20, 2010 7:22 PM CDT reply actions

1 miles to the nearest bar? Clearly something was wrong in the planning of where you lived…there should be a bar within 1 mile of every residence per state ordinance!

by TrevorR on Mar 22, 2010 9:05 AM CDT up reply actions