Traded Brett Favre to sober him up????

as I understand it…was coveted by Packer’s Mgt – they wanted him in the draft but couldn’t make it happen.
He was a partier in ATL and was a ‘joke’ to Glanville (pot, meet kettle).
I doubt Glanville traded Favre to ‘sober him up’.
He was dumping a troubled, trouble-some, ‘rebel’. Glanville didn’t want him.

In hindsight… Favre is still in the league…Glanville was out of the NFL in 1993, shortly after jettisoning the best QB in NFL history…

GO VIKES!!

Yea…

“I couldn’t get him to sober up, so I traded him to a state with the highest bars per capita in the country.

we as Viking fans should be estatic with the fact that our coaches, scouts, and management work together as a team to draft the right players for our system.

I might not agree with some of the players they are signing or drafting but so far they have been correct on a great majority of them. In fact Brett comes to mind. What a signing.

Everybody wants to point at a superstar and say, ’I was the one who made him into who he is today." There is a cachet to that. But when is it truth, and when is it a tall tale?

Jerry Glanville may be telling the truth, but in light of the 1st round draft pick that his Falcons received for Brett Favre from the Packers, when Favre was only a 2nd round draft pick the year before, and had shown nothing in the regular season, I seriously doubt that Glanville shipped Favre off to Green Bay purely for altruistic reasons.

I find the notion of Wisconsin somehow being a “refuge” away from alcohol and inebriation to be laughable.

Addiction is a serious matter, and addicted people need help to stay sober. In that Brett Favre has been sober, maybe he owes gratitude to other people. Is one of those people Jerry Glanville? I would tend to doubt it.

Ron Wolf wanted Brett Favre, bad. Wolf wanted to draft him while he was in NY. When Wolf ended up in GB, Brett was still a priority to him. From Glanville’s point of view it makes perfect sense. Wolf offered a 1st round pick for an alcoholic, pain killer addidcted, 2nd round pick that was obviously still suffereing from a career threating auto accident.
It was obvious that he was wanted in GB. Wolf and Holmgren offered the support system that Glanville wasnt willing to provide.

The one thing that might be said for GB is that it was probably more like home to Favre than Atlanta ever could be.

but im not buying it, why would he care so much about him? isnt his job to get the best back from a trade, I seriously doubt that he would trade someone to a team specifically because of a bad night life, but rather because green bay was offering the best deal for him. sounds like he is sick of hearing all the what ifs and had to come up with something. like the article even points out, alcoholics can get it anywhere…

Like buddy ryan cutting cris carter because all he does is catch touchdowns.
not good between the 20 yard lines.

I’ve heard him say lots of things over the years to explain this away. Here’s the real deal,as I’ve heard it, and interpolated: Glanville wanted to draft another player at 33. The Falcon FO did not, based upon scouting reports they had Favre higher on their board. It was a political battle, so Glanville was only too happy to see Favre fail, in order to “win” the battle, and prove his point. I’m not saying he caused him to fail, I’m just staying he stepped out of hte way when it looked like he would, and let it happen.

Granville never even bothered to learn Favre’s name, he just called him “Mississippi,” and kinda mocked him.

The thing about Green Bay being a place where people DON’T drink is a joke, as others have already pointed out, and only goes to show Glanville’s ignorance and even arrogance (putting Green Bay down). The real difference between Atlanta and Green Bay was that the Green Bay football franchise had a coach willing to work with QB diamond in the rough prospect like Favre (Holmgren), and was able to engage him and work on him at many levels to get him straightened out — off the football field as well as on. Favre was a alcoholic train wreck in college, Atlanta, and his first years in Green Bay, no doubt.