Goodell wants Favre, Pack dispute solved by Monday
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell hopes to have Brett Favre's standoff with the Green Bay Packers resolved by Monday — even if he has to force the issue.
In an interview with the NFL Network on Saturday, Goodell said, "I think we've gotten to the point where we kind of have to force it."
Favre retired in March and the Packers have offered him a marketing agreement reportedly worth $20 million over 10 years, and he presumably would remain retired if he accepts it. (It's a bribe that keeps Favre from attending training camp AND makes a trade/releasing option of Favre a mute point.) But Favre also could be reinstated and show up to Packers camp early next week, perhaps forcing the team to trade him.
Anyone know the precedent of the NFL commissioner going to this length to interject and force a resolution when it comes to a team matter?
Your comments on the marketing services agreement offered to Favre are not correct. That deal was put on the table back in January. It is not a bribe tactic.
ReplyDeleteLet's get the facts straight.
Any way you look at it, it IS a bribe. Take the money and don't show up to training camp.
ReplyDeleteThe facts: "Bribe" - Black's Law Dictionary defines "bribe" as the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official...The bribe is the gift bestowed to influence the recipient's conduct. It may be any money, good, right in action, property, preferment, privilege, emolument, object of value, advantage, or merely a promise or undertaking to induce or influence the action...of a person.
Even NFL Commish Goodall stated he did NOT like the whole concept of the $20 million offer and that is one of the reasons he stepped up and ruled Sunday that Brett was reinstated Monday.
You can call it a "personal services contract". But it's a bribe.
And Brett DIDN'T take it.