GREEN BAY, Wisconsin. Angered by the Green Bay Packers' refusal to give him his unconditional release, quarterback Brett Favre today announced he would un-retire from two other teams, Hancock North Central High School in Kiln, Mississippi, and Southern Mississippi, where he played college football.
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"I don't care how many teams I have to un-retire from," Favre. "I'm going to be playing football come August 18th," when two-a-day football practices can begin under state interscholastic athletic rules in Mississippi.
Favre started as an 8th grader for the Hancock North Central baseball team, but played only three years of varsity football during which he averaged five passes per game in a wishbone offense. Under Mississippi High School Athletic Association rules, he accordingly has remaining eligibility of either two years or 680 passes, whichever comes first.
Southern Mississippi Golden Eagle: "Brett's back!"
Favre frequently played with a hangover at Southern Mississippi, including a thrilling 1987 come-from-behind victory over sixth-ranked Florida State, and will seek a do-over for any game in which his blood alcohol level exceeded .04. "Brett can play better hungover than a lot of guys can sober," said Favre's agent, James "Bus" Cook. "Carson Palmer's always calling me asking me what he drinks."
He'll be done in 3 weeks. You know no coach is going to be able to stop him from calling his own plays, and you also know he's not going to call a draw play or sweep to the left.
Con Chapman is the author of "The Year of the Gerbil: How the Yankees Won (and the Red Sox Lost) the Greatest Pennant Race Ever," a history of the 1978 AL East pennant race, and "CannaCorn", a novel about minor league baseball to be published by Joshua Tree Publishing in 2009. He has written a number of plays, including "Number One Hockey Mom," "Please, Pope," and "What Mickey Belle Isle Told You," a trilogy about hockey (JAC Publishing). His articles and humor have appeared in newspapers and magazines including The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, and The Atlantic Monthly, among others.
