The good news is that he is ahead of both Carolina QBs in Quarterback Ranking. The bad news is that he is third from last in the whole league.
The owner overpayed, and coach groveled, and for what? This?
The good news is that he is ahead of both Carolina QBs in Quarterback Ranking. The bad news is that he is third from last in the whole league.
The owner overpayed, and coach groveled, and for what? This?
How could Geb be the Brett Favre of running when he has achieved way more in running that Favre has in football? Geb is like what Jerry Rice is to football. He took what he did to another level.
Midwesterner wrote:
I am pretty sure Geb has never had a drinking problem. I am pretty sure Geb has never had a drug addiction. I am pretty sure Geb has never gotten his young girlfriend pregnant and refused to marry her so he could continue to party and sleep with other girls. I am pretty sure Geb never abandonded his girlfriend and their daughter for several months in a small town like Green Bay so he could go home and party with his friends and sleep with other women. I am pretty sure Geb would never have refused to help his back up quarterbacks(or runners) so they could become better players. I am pretty sure Geb never played games with his bosses so he could get out of the hard work of pre-season practices. I am pretty sure Geb would never have held an entire team hostage by refusing to make a commitment on whether to retire or not, therefore not letting them plan for the draft or deal with salary cap issues.
I am going to have to go with the answer, no Geb is not the Brett Favre of running.
Someone asked if Brett really did all of the above in a subsequent post, but I did not remember where the article was where I read about his relationship with Deanna. With Brett's latest publicity for retiring, I decided to look it up. Much of what is written above is public knowledge, but the information about how he treated Deanna and his daughter I got from an article in Milwaukee Magazine on 10/29/2007. Most of these are direct quotes from Deanna herself. You can decide for yourself. Remember also that this article was written well before much of Favre's antics of the past three years, including his texting scandal which I am sure didn't please Deanna. The article is very long, so I took out excerpts that show his behavior over the years to Deanna and his daughter. My favorite part is where he would ignore his girlfriend and daughter in their own home and go out without saying where he was going and when he abandoned them up in Green Bay after the season was over. To be fair, the article shows that he eventually did marry her and quit drinking and became a better husband and father, at least until the past three years. Here is a link to the full article if anyone wants to read it:
http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/currentIssue/full_feature_story.asp?NewMessageID=16951Excerpts from Milwaukee Magazine article on Deanna Favre on 10/29/2007
Deanna gave birth to a daughter, Brittany Nicole, on Feb. 6, 1989. Brett was with her at the hospital. “He was supportive”.
And so Deanna set out on what would be a six-year odyssey as a single parent, returning to school part-time that summer. Both families helped her in caring for Brittany, but she took the responsibility of parenting.
By the end of Brett’s time in college, the relationship had grown rocky. “He always did things for her, I think he just wasn’t there emotionally,” explains her sister. “He liked to go out and drink and [party].
Things didn’t improve when Brett was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in 1991, nor when he was traded to the Packers in ’92. Rumors swirled that he was seeing other women, cheating on Deanna.
In 1995, Deanna agreed to move to Green Bay full-time to be with Brett, bringing Brittany, who would start first grade there. Packing up and leaving Hattiesburg and her family that August, she could have no idea what struggles lay ahead.
Deanna quickly began to realize he was no longer the Brett she had known as a teenager. In her book, Don’t Bet Against Me!, published in October by Tyndale House Publishers, she is candid about the struggles of that time. The Brett she knew was quiet and caring, but this man “was loud, rough, and often hateful,” she writes. “He didn’t seem to care that Brittany and I were in the house. He started to ignore us soon after we arrived.” Erratic, moody, he would often leave without saying where he was going.
Sue, who lived down the street from Deanna and Brett, remembers the drama playing out in quiet shifts. “I used to see them leave their house. Brett would go out with the guys, and then Brittany and Deanna would go out to get a bite to eat or go to a movie.”
Grounded in a way Brett was not at that time, and knowing him better than anyone, Deanna could penetrate the haze of fame and deception that masked his problem. Suspecting he was misusing painkillers, she confronted him, but it only led to further strife. Kristin Noskowiak, who was 14 years old when Deanna and Brittany moved to Green Bay, recalls a night when she slept over while babysitting. The next morning, Deanna asked her if she’d heard anything the night before; Kristin said she hadn’t. Deanna told her they’d had a huge fight after arriving home, and broke down, confiding Brett was “on drugs.” Kristin didn’t fully comprehend at the time, but recalls thinking, “Wow, everyone thinks he’s this god almost, and look at what Deanna’s life is like.”
It seemed things couldn’t get any worse. But then the season ended, and most of the wives Deanna had gotten to know returned to their off-season homes in other parts of the country. Brett, too, headed back to Mississippi, leaving Deanna to see their daughter through first grade, and a winter and a loneliness unlike any she had ever known.
He came over and told her he wanted to go out after the party with a group of friends. She said no way. But he slipped out, not returning until the next morning. After they fought, he went out for the next two nights, not showing up at their home in Hattiesburg until Monday.