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Packers Now Say They'll Welcome Favre Back

Sunday August 3, 2008
After insisting for weeks that Aaron Rodgers is their starting quarterback, it appears maybe the Green Bay Packers are doing some flip-flopping of their own now that they are faced with the realization that Brett Favre is coming back one way or another.

In a statement released Sunday on the Packers' web site, president and CEO Mark Murphy said the team would welcome Favre back and "turn this situation to our advantage." The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that the Packers have also agreed to let Favre compete with Rodgers for the starting job (which is what they should have done all along and avoided this PR nightmare in the process). Read more...

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August 3, 2008 at 9:36 pm
(1) fpl says:

Let the competition begin. This is a free and open market. May the best man win.

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