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So My Fiancee Asks Me ...

JackWESQJackWESQ Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭
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I'm driving with my fiancee to go visit mom. We're talking about stuff and eventually I tell her that Brett Favre got traded. And comes the million, no billion dollar question ... "Why they trade him if he's still good?"

I'm not going to, but I told her that someone could write a thousand page book to answer that question.

/s/ JackWESQ
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  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Simple answer - Because sports players are paid on anticipated future performance, nothing more, and the bottom line is that Green Bay has "calculated" that whatever is the possible "still good" future performance of Brett Favre is not worth it to them.

    I agree with Green Bay - it was a good move on their part to trade him.
  • TheVonTheVon Posts: 2,725 ✭
    I'd tell your fiancee that playing for one football team for 16 years is a lot like being in a marriage. No matter how good it was in the beginning, both sides eventually get tired of each other and parting ways is an inevitability.
  • edmundfitzgeraldedmundfitzgerald Posts: 4,306 ✭✭


    << <i>I'd tell your fiancee that playing for one football team for 16 years is a lot like being in a marriage. No matter how good it was in the beginning, both sides eventually get tired of each other and parting ways is an inevitability. >>



    Yesterday was my 20th anniversary, and it gets better every dayimage
  • TheVonTheVon Posts: 2,725 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I'd tell your fiancee that playing for one football team for 16 years is a lot like being in a marriage. No matter how good it was in the beginning, both sides eventually get tired of each other and parting ways is an inevitability. >>



    Yesterday was my 20th anniversary, and it gets better every dayimage >>



    Shouldn't you be out for dinner with your wife right about now then?
  • bdunndchibdunndchi Posts: 650


    << <i>I'd tell your fiancee that playing for one football team for 16 years is a lot like being in a marriage. No matter how good it was in the beginning, both sides eventually get tired of each other and parting ways is an inevitability. >>



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  • brianwintersfanbrianwintersfan Posts: 3,626 ✭✭


    << <i>Simple answer - Because sports players are paid on anticipated future performance, nothing more, and the bottom line is that Green Bay has "calculated" that whatever is the possible "still good" future performance of Brett Favre is not worth it to them.

    I agree with Green Bay - it was a good move on their part to trade him. >>



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