All kinds of great Brett Favre anecdotes coming out this week!
He thinks he’s Elvis. He thinks he can still play (which, unlike everyone else, we don’t find surprising at all).
And this.
Green Bay Packers general manager Ted Thompson texted Favre after both of Brett’s victories over the Packers as a member of the Minnesota Vikings in 2009.
https://twitter.com/jasonjwilde/status/616316210100240384
Big Ted’s texts to Favre were “Great job,” after the first Vikings’ win and “You played outstanding,” after the second.
This is surprising because of the way Favre left town and the fact that he engineered his way to the Vikings to stick it to the Packers. We’ve always believed that Thompson was the main focus of Favre’s ire, since Thompson ultimately made the decision that the Packers wouldn’t take Favre back as a starter or grant his release in 2008.
It’s not surprising if you look at it from another angle, though.
Thompson knew the Packers would want to repair their relationship with Favre and that Favre would eventually stop being a vindictive, selfish dick. And if Thompson still planned on running the Packers football operations for a while, he’d have to make nice with Favre.
So Thompson laid the groundwork early.
Do we like it?
We don’t like anything about those shitbags from Minnesota beating the Packers, so no.
We respect it, though.