What a Joke: Favre Investigation

The situation between Brett Favre and Jenn Sterger was first broke by a website called deadspin.com. I don’t know if you’ve ever been on it, but the site looks like one you could easily discredit if you ask me. Even they said they weren’t sure if it was Brett Favre’s voice on the voicemails. They never cared if it was him or not. They were breaking that story if the voice sounded nothing like Favre’s because they knew it would give their site mega publicity. Besides, they were more interested in getting out that Favre sent inappropriate text messages to her anyways.

Now Favre refused to confirm or deny anything to the media before or after talking to NFL officials about the incident. It was even reported that he refused to meet with the NFL the initial time they wanted to talk to him. Favre did give one of his patented teary-eyed apologies to the Vikings organization and fans for the distraction he caused though. We then found out that Favre admitted that he had left voicemails to Sterger, but did not send her any inappropriate text or picture messages.

Sterger contemplated for a very long time on whether to talk to NFL officials about the Brett Favre allegations. I find it interesting that she did decide to talk to them a few days after her show was canceled on Versus. She then met with the NFL officials for three hours, which is weird because telling her side of the story should not have taken three hours. It was never disclosed what she said, funny how that worked; what Favre says is out mere hours after his meeting but what Sterger said to this day is still not out.

Sterger’s lawyer recently said that the NFL has finished their investigation and that all the evidence and materials are sitting on Goodell’s desk to look at. Quite frankly at this point I don’t see why Goodell would even look at them. Favre has already said he will not come back next year and that he will be retiring for good. This means that there will be no way that Goodell can punish Favre besides maybe suspending for the last three games of the year. He could also suspend him for next year in case he decided to come back for a 21^st year. But if Favre found out he would be suspended next year, he would just say he was retiring anyways and that it doesn’t matter to him.

Sterger’s lawyer also recently said that Favre will retire after this year to escape trouble from the League. I found this to be hysterical because Favre announced way before this story even broke that this would be his last year. I remember he said something about not planning to play in the League for 20 years and that it was just a coincidence that he’s retiring after 20. He said this during his press conference back in August that was held after he made the decision to return for the final year of his Vikings contract.

I personally don’t think Goodell will punish Favre at all. The situation has dragged on for so long that people actually stopped talking about it, and when people forget that means the NFL’s reputation is not being run through the mud. Favre has also brought a lot of good publicity over the years for the NFL as well. He is a legend who has almost every qb record there is, and has led his teams to countless 4^th quarter comebacks. His wavering over retirement for the last several years has grown old, but I don’t think Goodell holds that against Favre. I think Goodell honestly believes Favre wavered for all these years because it has been a tough decision to come back and play each offseason. In the end, this story will simply result in more Favre jokes and will be a funny story to look back and laugh at, nothing more.