Goodell is definitely more of a hands-on commish than was his predecessor, but it isn’t right in singling out a particular player to favor with his position of authority, no matter if it is the Great Brett Favre involved. The Packers offered Favre a position in the organization as backup to Rogers, which in my opinion does no favors for either of them, but that’s their right.

Unless Goodell prepares to step in on all contract negotiations, he shouldn’t be offering Favre anything he wouldn’t give the “Duane Starks” of the League.

so they can back down from the hardline they intially took with Favre without looking dumb.

I believe Goodell doesn’t necessarily have a leg to stand on from a policy standpoint, but he’s trying to act in the best interests of Favre, the Packers, and the NFL. This thing has already blown up way too much and it can only get worse. Heck, Favre was stupid enough to call members of the Vikings front office on a Packers issued cell phone. I’d like to say this is as dumb as dumb can get, but I’ve been wrong about that before.

I thought the same thing when I heard about this.

Good Point.

Who cares about his “rights?” I bet he’s just as f*cking sick of this as the rest of the football-loving universe, and he’s using the bully pulpit to try to hasten the end of our suffering. Good for him, because this has gone from merely annoying to way past pathetic and right on into Britney Spears territory.

ENOUGH!