Favre to finally retire?

[DTro]

Before Deanna Favre got married, she was NOT one of those women who suffered silently and looked the other way while her man engaged in dalliances with other women.

That's absolutely clear in the pages of her New York Times bestselling autobiography, "Don't Bet Against Me!" It's a tell-all -- she'll hate those words -- in which she openly talks about her battle with breast cancer, diagnosed in 2004, and her life with Brett Favre, whom she most likely met in catechism class when she was 7. I picked up the last copy of the book published in 2007 at the Barnes & Noble on Nicollet Mall Tuesday, after stumbling on the New York Post's Saturday story with the headline, "Brett Favre's wife nearly sacked him over babes."

The NFL is investigating what's been reported in Deadspin stories that claim during the year Favre QB'd the Jets, he sent inappropriate "sext" messages to a female employee of the team. While the alleged behavior of Favre, now QB of the Vikings, in sending photos of his lower brain to Jenn Sterger would represent a childish new low, Deanna Favre has seen bad behavior before from Brett, her high school sweetheart and the man who "always will be the love of my life."

From Page 34, during the Green Bay years of drugs and alcohol: "One night, I walked into the room and heard Brett talking on the phone to a woman I had discovered he'd been calling. 'That's it,' I told him. 'I don't deserve to be treated like this. You asked me to move up here to Green Bay and now you're calling these girls -- well, you're on your own now. I'm not living this way. All this stuff is over for me.'"

But Deanna was encouraged to stay by Gayle Mariucci, who believed Brett would end up killing himself by abusing Vicodin. Gayle's husband, coach Steve Mariucci, had recently confronted Brett about Deanna's suspicions he was abusing Vicodin, and Brett had vehemently denied it. Then in February 1996, while recovering from surgery to remove bone spurs from his ankle, Favre had a seizure. Blood work disclosed "a toxic liver." That's when he entered drug rehab.

Favre checked himself into Kansas' Menninger Clinic to deal with his addiction to "Vikes," as he called the drug. Soon after rehab, Brett wanted to marry Deanna, but she was not so sure until she started to see a change in him. She sent a letter declining her hard-won spot in a dietetics program at a Mississippi college: "I wanted it so badly, but I believed in Brett more, and I wanted to be with him," she wrote. So back to Green Bay she went, and they were married on July 14, 1996.

Although the QB had licked his pain pill problem, he thought he could still drink, and he did, Deanna said.

By the spring of 1999, Deanna was pregnant with their second daughter, and "Mr. Wild Man, a real party animal," as she called him, was fully on the loose, fueled by "liquid courage."

Her breaking point came after the wedding reception for Brett's brother in Mississippi that year. Brett rolled into his parents' home at 8 the following morning. "Is this how you want to live?" she asked.

She left Brett at his parents and went home with their child. "He didn't call me, and he didn't come home. Instead, he went out with his friends. When he finally came home on Monday morning, I had all his belongings packed and waiting in the courtyard of the house." [Page 74]

She told him, "I'm done. I've already spoken to an attorney."

Brett began begging and promising, "I'll never do it again," and then the phone rang. It was Deanna's divorce lawyer. "Brett heard me tell her I was ready to file."

Brett checked himself into rehab again, but "my feelings numbed," Deanna wrote. "At that point I honestly wanted nothing more to do with Brett Favre."

Many assume that women who marry pro athletes understand these are the terms of the contract: In exchange for the wife living a lavish lifestyle, the husband gets to cheat whenever he wants.

In the past, Deanna has been the type who goes ballistic with the conflict-averse Brett. She shares her fears and concerns with an inner circle that includes folks to whose homes she went to pray during her bout with breast cancer.

I'm looking for something in Deanna's chapters about cancer that might indicate this current pickle of Brett's making falls into the category of small stuff not worth sweating.

She is a very religious woman. "I'll be honest, sometimes it's hard to live like a Christian in a world of wealth and privilege. That's why I'm always grateful for our Mississippi roots," she wrote on Page 194.

After checking out the photos on Deadspin, Deanna may be the only person other than Brett to know for certain the answers to the questions the NFL is investigating.

She could be forgiven for concluding that this tale is starting to sound like "The Same Old Song" -- or some other s-word.

[harvey lee]

I could care less what any sports star does on his own time. That is their business.

I have no idea what is true and what is not about this subject and could really care less.

A good way for a bunch of people to try and make a few bucks. So many times these stories are false or blown way out of proportion.

I wonder who the next star is that they will need to go after?

Why people put these players on such a high pedestal is beyond me.

They are human and this stuff does happen right or wrong. No one is perfect.

Maybe the press should check out the people that bring these things up and see just how clean and perfect they are.

[DTro]

via David Letterman. Top 10 Favre excuses:

10. Part of my audition for ‘Jackass 3D’

9. Uhhh, I was dehydrated

8. An Autograph seemed so impersonal

7. Too many concussions

6. Meant to send it to Commissioner Goodell

5. No habla ingles

4. Offensive line let me down

3. Don’t blame me, I voted for Kucinich

2. If I can’t text inappropriate photos then the terrorists have won

1. Thought the cell phone was gum.

[Musky Buck]

I like how it took a few years to break and I like how everyone is technology is great, but boy is it burning people time after time and even years down the road.

[toughguy]

Don't hate the player. Hate the game, err his game. If this would have came out last year when the Vikings were riding high this wouldn't have been a story. We just love to kick them on the way down don't we. I have seen comparisons to the Rothlesburger allegations and that makes me sick. The two stories aren't even in the same ballpark IMO. The guy allegedly asked a woman to his hotel room and sent a nasty picture to her. Was the picture sent after something happened between the two? Did she send him pictures of herself back or even FIRST? Was she offended? Did she file a complaint? From what I heard she bragged about it during a photo shoot and deadspin pressed the story and she refused to give up any additional info. Deaspin moved forward finally buying the photo and message for $80,000 from a 3rd party. I'll give you a photo and voicemail of #4 doing something 100 times worse for $80,000. That's good enough motivation for me to "create" it. I'm sure something happened between the two and it's having a huge impact on his marriage as it should. That would make any guy emotional. Let's just take a breath, step back for 5 minutes wait for the real story to come out. Not that it's really any of my business. I'm with you Harvey, I personally don't care. I'm not Jen Sterger or Dianna Favre.

[pinkfloyd4ever]

regardless, he won't go out because of this. He will ride out the season, with his ego, he can't just quit during a season over this.

[toughguy]

Very true. Think about what we'd all be saying 5 of 10 years from now if he left The NFL just to avoid this story. It would be the last thing people remember about him. Now imagine he rides this out, takes his lumps (if there even are any) and retires at the end of the year. Regardless of the Vikings record it would diminish the impact of this story on his legacy.

[Steve Foss]

Don't hate the player. Hate the game, err his game. If this would have came out last year when the Vikings were riding high this wouldn't have been a story. We just love to kick them on the way down don't we. I have seen comparisons to the Rothlesburger allegations and that makes me sick. The two stories aren't even in the same ballpark IMO. The guy allegedly asked a woman to his hotel room and sent a nasty picture to her. Was the picture sent after something happened between the two? Did she send him pictures of herself back or even FIRST? Was she offended? Did she file a complaint? From what I heard she bragged about it during a photo shoot and deadspin pressed the story and she refused to give up any additional info. Deaspin moved forward finally buying the photo and message for $80,000 from a 3rd party. I'll give you a photo and voicemail of #4 doing something 100 times worse for $80,000. That's good enough motivation for me to "create" it. I'm sure something happened between the two and it's having a huge impact on his marriage as it should. That would make any guy emotional. Let's just take a breath, step back for 5 minutes wait for the real story to come out. Not that it's really any of my business. I'm with you Harvey, I personally don't care. I'm not Jen Sterger or Dianna Favre.

Yup!

[harvey lee]

via David Letterman. Top 10 Favre excuses:

10. Part of my audition for ‘Jackass 3D’

9. Uhhh, I was dehydrated

8. An Autograph seemed so impersonal

7. Too many concussions

6. Meant to send it to Commissioner Goodell

5. No habla ingles

4. Offensive line let me down

3. Don’t blame me, I voted for Kucinich

2. If I can’t text inappropriate photos then the terrorists have won

1. Thought the cell phone was gum.

I guess some people have nothing better to do in life than to worry about others in their life.

Most have skeleton's in their closets.

Seems one should practice this ol saying.

Do unto others as you would have thenm do unto you.

[MuleShack]

Seems one should practice this ol saying.

Do unto others as you would have thenm do unto you.

YEA, too bad the media doesn't pick up on that one...

[DTro]

oh geez, lighten up guys, it's a game, and a business that is driven by our entertainment. HaHa....don't pick on poor multimillion dollar Brett. LOL

Did you hear the real story finally came out? Deeana had a press conference yesterday and admitted that those pictures were meant for her eyes only. But it turns out they were intercepted. LOL HaHa

[MNice]

dang it, you beat me to it, I heard that today too.

[pegleg]

The funny part about that is David Letterman last year was charged with sexual harassment and now he is blasting Favre on what he is doing with his Top 10 monologue. You would think he would be one of the last ones to throw stones.

[mrklean]

oh geez, lighten up guys, it's a game, and a business that is driven by our entertainment. HaHa....don't pick on poor multimillion dollar Brett. LOL

Did you hear the real story finally came out? Deeana had a press conference yesterday and admitted that those pictures were meant for her eyes only. But it turns out they were intercepted. LOL HaHa

funny darren i had a guy at work tell me that exact joke about 5 min ago haha

[Nate McVey]

oh geez, lighten up guys, it's a game, and a business that is driven by our entertainment. HaHa....don't pick on poor multimillion dollar Brett. LOL

Did you hear the real story finally came out? Deeana had a press conference yesterday and admitted that those pictures were meant for her eyes only. But it turns out they were intercepted. LOL HaHa

Holy [PoorWordUsage] I just pee'd a little..............IALTO!!!!!