The New York Jets' gin-blossomed legend offered some candid thoughts on his old team and, right now, he doesn't like the Jets' quarterback situation at all. Obviously, he was a more interesting interview subject before he befriended Bill W., but he's still got some pluck in him without the booze . T...

No kidding. This is news? Last summer, in the midst of his 2008 messy divorce from the Green Bay Packers, Brett Favre talked with Greta Van Susteren, telling his side of the story. It was clear that Favre was harboring a lot of anger and a lot of bitterness. Listen to him complain about the Packers'...

Brett Favre retired yesterday for the second time in 11 months, and if the New York Jets are lucky, this one will stick. The decision to sign Favre last August was an unmitigated disaster, typical of the Jets' blundering over the last quarter century. Stripped of the illusions the New York media wra...

Today, Brett Favre announced his retirement from the NFL. Yeah, whatever. From ESPN: Without the tearful public ceremony that accompanied his retirement announcement from the Green Bay Packers just 11 months ago, quarterback Brett Favre has told the New York Jets he is retiring. Favre had instructed...

Seems only the fawning sports press has love for Brett Favre anymore. He's worn out his welcome in New York, and now comes word Electronic Arts considered pulling him from the Madden 09 cover. In testimony during the class-action lawsuit against the National Football League Players Association, over...

Not many people have been complimentary of Brett Favre since the Jets’ season went down the tubes courtesy of his three interception performance against the Dolphins in week 17. That capped off a 1-4 finish leaving the Jets at 9-7 despite starting the season a sparkling 8-3. Thomas Jones was b...

Andy Reid is certainly built to survive in cold weather, but unfortunately his Eagles couldn’t make the same claim. Days before the Arizona Cardinals nearly applied a death blow to Steeler Nation, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, in conjunction with Coors Light (for when you feel like having a p...

Trevor Hoffman has signed a 1-year deal with the Milwaukee Brewers for $6 million with incentives that could kick it up to $7.5 million. Like football’s Brett Favre, Hoffman now has the pleasure of being almost universally associated with one team despite neither starting nor finishing his car...

With all due respect to Peyton Manning, the NFL’s MVP for the 2008 season was the Arizona Cardinals’ quarterback Kurt Warner. Warner didn’t have the best passing stats in the league, though his numbers were outstanding: 4558 yards passing, good for 2nd in the league behind New Orleans’ Drew ...

Brett Favre is high up on a very short list of all-time greatest NFL quarterbacks. And yet his re-instatement to the NFL, and the ensuing controversy, culminating in a trade to his new team holding great promise, only for their hopes to be dashed, was equally one for the books. These are some takeaw...