Packers GM to Favre - I'm on vaca, can't get back to ya right now bro
I’d like to say I told you so right now, but I can’t. We here at The Big Choke (we as in me, and one guy whose never here) have said time and time again that Brett Favre would most likely be back to play another year in a Green Bay Packers uniform.
We are not adjusting our stance. Brett Favre might be back but whether it’s in a Green Bay Packers uniform is now in doubt. FAVRE GOT DISSED SON!
ESPN has cited 3 seperate situations in which Brett Favre has not been treated like an MVP
WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee reported Monday that Favre sent a text message to Packers GM Ted Thompson on Saturday — and that Thompson’s reply was that he is on vacation and the two men will have to talk later.
And Sports Illustrated reported on its Web site Monday that Thompson has ignored phone calls from Favre’s agent, James “Bus” Cook, while sending an intermediary to Mississippi to talk to Favre. According to that report, Cook is expected to request that Favre be taken off the NFL’s reserve/retired list within the next 10 days.
Last week, ESPN’s Chris Mortensen reported Favre had communicated his potential desire to return to coach Mike McCarthy, but that talks had not advanced to a substantive stage, according to a Packers source.
So Brett has been dissed a total of 3 times now. His agents calls to the GM have gone unanswered, his text messages were dismissed by the GM, and the head coach has no comment or answer for Favre. Is this anyway to treat that drunk guy who just doesn’t know when to go home?
Ted Thompson is one cold motherfucker
Michael Vick Files for bankruptcy protection
This is all crazy to me because a judge allowed him to keep $17.5 million of his advance money even though the Falcons wanted it back. So where did that $17.5 million go? Don’t tell me this guy had $17.5 Million dollars in outstanding bills on top of what we learned today!
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Imprisoned quarterback Michael Vick filed for bankruptcy protection while serving time for federal dogfighting charges, saying he owes between $10 million and $50 million to creditors.
Vick filed Chapter 11 papers in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Newport News on Monday. The seven largest creditors listed in the court papers are owed a total of about $12.8 million.
Vick is serving a 23-month prison sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan., after pleading guilty last year to bankrolling a dogfighting ring. He was subsequently suspended indefinitely without pay and lost all his major sponsors, including Nike. He also faces state charges related to dogfighting.
The suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback “will seek to rebuild his life and career” upon his release, according to the filings.
The debt includes part of a signing bonus that the Falcons are seeking to recover.
After the plea on dogfighting charges, the Falcons tried to recover about $20 million in bonuses Vick earned from 2004 to 2007. But a federal judge held that Vick is entitled to keep all but $3.75 million of the money paid to him for playing football through the 2014 season.
According to the filings, Vick’s other debts include $4.5 million owed to Richmond-based Joel Enterprises Inc., and $550,0000 owed to Radtke Sports Inc. for breach of contract.
In May, a federal judge ordered Vick to repay about $2.5 million to a Canadian bank for defaulting on a loan. The Royal Bank of Canada had sued Vick in September, arguing his guilty plea to a federal dogfighting charge — and the resulting impact on his career — prevented him from repaying the loan.
A default judgment for $1.08 million also was entered in January against Vick and a business partner in a lawsuit brought by Wachovia Bank over a loan for an Atlanta-area wine shop and restaurant.
Taking loans from Canadian banks? Is that normal? Or had he tapped out every American bank. Were the Canadians the only ones stupid enough to give him a loan based on future NFL contracts? Or did Vick take out the loan despite his HUGE NFL advance. Maybe he just “forgot” to pay it back.
Michael better be taking his weight conditioning seriously while in prison because an NFL backup career is probably his only shot at being able to live comfortably once again.
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To Former Patriot Ben Coates
Tight end Ben Coates, who played for the Patriots from 1991 to 1999, has been elected to the Patriots Hall of Fame, the team announced today. He becomes the 13th member of the team’s Hall, and the first tight end.
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