What Was Brett Favre Thinking?

The Brett Favre Green Bay Packer story continues to unfold taking a new twist. begging the question, Brett what were you thinking?

As you recall Green Bay has filed a complaint with the NFL accusing the Minnesota Vikings of having inappropriate talks with Brett Favre.

The inside sources thought proving these charges would be an uphill battle almost impossible to prove. Green Bay would need a smoking gun.

I now appears The Pack may very well have that smoking gun, a Green Bay cell phone issued to none other than Brett Favre.

According to inside sources the phone records report repeated calls from Brett to head coach Brad Childress and offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell.

Brett what were you thinking? This is James Bond 101, get a non traceable disposable cell phone. You can afford it, you are rich.

These cell phone records take me back, circa 1970's to former President Richard Nixon and Water Gate.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune Reports

July 22nd, 2008 – 2:05 PM by Judd Zulgad
As we await the NFL’s decision on the tampering charges filed by the Packers against the Vikings for “inappropriate dialogue” with Brett Favre, Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had an interesting bit of information in a piece he wrote about the quarterback today.

McGinn writes that a source said Favre had continued to use a Packers-issued cell phone and that when the team checked the phone records it found “repeated calls to coach Brad Childress and offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell.”

The possibility of Favre having used a phone issued by the Packers had been speculated on last week after the Associated Press reported that Green Bay informed the NFL it felt “an investigation of the phone records would show more than ‘normal contact’ between the Vikings and Favre, even before he formally asked for his release to play for another team.”

Bevell served as Favre’s quarterbacks coach in Green Bay from 2003-05 and the two have remained close. That relationship made it difficult to believe the Packers could prove much by simply pointing to conversations between Bevell and Favre. However, if Favre’s phone records also point to conversations with Childress that could be a different story.

The Vikings have remained mostly quiet on this subject since news broke nearly a week ago that tampering charges had been filed. Minnesota issued a statement last Thursday, saying the Vikings “are not commenting on this issue. These types of matters are handled by the league.”

The Vikings, if found guilty, could face penalties that include loss of draft picks and/or fines.

Should all these new issues prove out, sadly a great quarterback's legacy will be tarnished.

The Vikings will be found guilty of stupidity. Remember the 49ers were found guilty of the same thing and fines aside had to surrender draft choices to the Chicago Bears in this springs draft.

Hopefully we will see Brett back in uniform, any uniform gracing America's gridirons, doing what he does best, playing football and torching the defense.