Report: Packers have Favre’s phone records
July 22nd, 2008 – 2:05 PM by Judd ZulgadAs we await the NFL’s decision on the tampering charges filed by the Packers against the Vikings for “inappropriate dialogue” with Brett Favre, Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had an interesting bit of information in a piece he wrote about the quarterback today.
McGinn writes that a source said Favre had continued to use a Packers-issued cell phone and that when the team checked the phone records it found “repeated calls to coach Brad Childress and offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell.”
The possibility of Favre having used a phone issued by the Packers had been speculated on last week after the Associated Press reported that Green Bay informed the NFL it felt “an investigation of the phone records would show more than ‘normal contact’ between the Vikings and Favre, even before he formally asked for his release to play for another team.”
Bevell served as Favre’s quarterbacks coach in Green Bay from 2003-05 and the two have remained close. That relationship made it difficult to believe the Packers could prove much by simply pointing to conversations between Bevell and Favre. However, if Favre’s phone records also point to conversations with Childress that could be a different story.
The Vikings have remained mostly quiet on this subject since news broke nearly a week ago that tampering charges had been filed. Minnesota issued a statement last Thursday, saying the Vikings “are not commenting on this issue. These types of matters are handled by the league.”
The Vikings, if found guilty, could face penalties that include loss of draft picks and/or fines.
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And his little black book, too?
How about his emails?
well only a matter of time before this came out, now lets see what Goodell has to say about this…draft picks a plenty?
Report: Brett Favre just used the bathroom
Hows Hattesburg, MS BP?
to answer from the last blog, I think Winfield is thru ‘09. However, a site I found has T-Jack as the only Vikings UFA in 2010… but I am skeptical on the accuracy of that.
Childress has reached a new level of stupidity.
I agree, stupid coaches getting themselves into stupid situations.
Although, had it worked, you have to give Chili some props. He not only wanted to win the North, he wanted to take the Packer’s legacy, eat it, digest it, and take a giant legacy-shaped poo on the 50 yard line at Lamboo field on the monday night opener. I approve of the hatred… but not of the stupidity.
Okay, so Favre called the Vikings? Why is that tampering on the Vikings part? What were they supposed to do, hang up on him? I suppose they should have, given all that has transpired since.
Methinks the Packers doth protest too much.
“repeated calls to coach Brad Childress and offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell.”
That’s “TO”, not FROM Chili and Bevell. Interesting that you didn’t point that out, Judd. Wouldn’t the Vikings have to initiate the contact for it to be tampering?
Hey… If Favre is under contract with GB and HE calls the Vikings… wouldn’t that mean a Packer employee might be doing the tampering with the Vikings?
Judd, if a person (like one of us crackpots) calls you repeatedly, does that mean you are guilty of harassing the person calling you?
How many calls from Chili and Bevell to Farve were made?
Nice thoughts… but regardless of who called who it all depends on what they talked about… maybe Chili and Favre and Bevell were planning on a charity event together… or wanting to set up an “A-Holes Only” fantasy league… or wanting to gossip about Koren robinson or the latest episode of Gilmore girls. Who knows.
Maybe Favre was drunk dialing?
I believe Mr Favre to be an honorable gent. That being said, Mr Thompson and Mr McCarthy are tarnishing the name of that poor soul in much the same way Mr. Random tarnishes the name of Flaxton.
Maybe his daughters were prank calling Chili pretending to be the mustache police?
Maybe Favre knows another person named Brad Childress (lord, I hope there’s not two).
Just to let it be known, I am filing tampering charges against the false Todd Flaxton, a.k.a Mr. Random Thoughts Guy. He has been initiating contact with my son Ronald, offering to take him to a house of ill repute or something called Deja Vu? I’m not sure what that is Mr. Random, but rest assured, Ronald is still under contract with team Flaxton, and he will not be allowed to join another family.
God is good
~T
Maybe he was calling to get Sharper’s cell number after his contacts book was lost in a terrible beer/tractor accident in Mississippi?
Maybe they were talking about world domination… Maybe chili wanted to tell farve how to get the gray out of his beard? Or how to get his hair to grow back….
Maybe he wanted to ask Ryan Longwell out ona 2ND date?
Maybe they were exchanging Hannah Montana ringtones?
Maybe Favre wanted to donate to the Vikings Stadium cause so that he never had to play in the dome again if he DID go back to the Pack?
Did they write out any contracts on a napkin…oh wait, that’s how Glen Taylor and Kevin McHale do buisness on the down-low, my bad.
Maybe Fav-re lost Madden’s number and was getting frantic…
Maybe Childress is right next to Brandon Chillar in the Green Bay phone book, and he made a mistake (because he was drunk)?
Looks to me like Mr. Favre and Packer nation are setting up the Vikings here…Smells like something is stinky in Packerland…(it’s the cheese)
Maybe they co-chair the A-Hole’s for KAO’s Committee?
So, now everybody nows, Favre has always fantasized about being a Viking. Let it out Brett, don’t be shy.
Maybe he wanted to find out Chili’s opinion on the Obama and McCain race?
eh, thought I would give this a shot and see how many disagree.
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Minnesota at Green Bay: Brett Favre gets his number retired. Rodgers out to prove something and tries to do too much. Jackson benefits on a short passing game with Taylor and Wade. MN DEF stuffs the run and keeps Rodgers in check.
Vikes win 27-14 (1-0)
Indy at Minnesota: Manning stays sharp. Harrison is healthy and the Indy DEF, especially Bob Sanders, is all over Jackson. Peterson is limited to his second straight sub-100 yard game but the MN DEF eliminates Addai from the equation as Wayne steals the show. Indy wins 24-13 (1-1)
Carolina at Minnesota: Delhomme is under pressure the entire game. DeAngelo gets stuffed and Steve Smith is double covered all game. Jackson is sharp, Berrian gets his first 40+ yard reception and Peterson/Taylor combo is deadly. No match. Minnesota wins 35-10 (2-1)
Minnesota at Tennessee: Chris Johnson goes down with an injury. Young is forced to scramble and throws 3 INTs. But Jackson is forced out the pocket a few too many times and throws 3 of his own. Running game is blanked and special teams is all each team can rely on. Last second field goal. Minnesota wins 13-10 (3-1)
Minnesota at New Orleans: The loss of Faine kicks in. The Deuce is going no where, but Bush is effective in the flats. Peterson and Taylor have a hay day and Rice has his first 100 yard game of his career. Jackson is efficient, but Brees is better. But it is still not enough. Vikes win 28-21 (4-1)
Detroit at Minnesota: Jackson is player of the game with over 300 yards passing with both Rice and Berrian with 100+. J.Allen has a 3 sack game and Edwards adds 2 of his own. The Minnesota DEF is too much for the sorry DET OFF. The Minnesota OFF and DEF are too sharp. Minnesota wins 38-6 (5-1)
Minnesota at Chicago: The last of away game in the division. Tis the coldest outdoor game for the Vikes of the year. A miserable 64 degrees. The Bears decide to go with Orton. Forte has an efficient game but this is the Peterson show. 150 yards on the ground and Berrian has some surprises for his former team. Jackson goes deep twice to Berrian and J.Allen welcomes Orton back by keeping him down. Minnesota wins 28-14 (6-1)
Houston at Minnesota: The Texans DEF is all over the place. Jackson makes familiar mistakes. Peterson has no where to go. Berrian cant get open. Rice is covered. And Shaub gives up on the running games and finds his target Johnson. But the Vikes stay in this one until a last second field goal and the heart breaker of the year. Houston wins 17-14 (6-2)
Green Bay at Minnesota: Rodgers is an effective start and learns from his mistakes. Jennings connects on a few key plays but the Pack is all about stopping the run. Berrian goes over 100 yards again and Rice is shut down. J.Allen is stuffed all game but Edwards picks up the slack. Jackson marches the Vikes down the field but throws a last minute INT. Green Bay wins 24-17 (6-3)
Minnesota at Tampa Bay: Is Favre the QB for Tampa????? No, but Garcia does his best. Garcia has trouble finding his targets. The MIN front 4 hurry him all day. Cadillac is out of gas and the Vikes OFF does the rest. Peterson has his first 200 yard rushing game of the year and Jackson shows he can lead a team. Minnesota wins 21-10 (7-3)
Minnesota at Jacksonville: Garrad is still wondering where Matt Jones is. Williamson scores a big time 83 yd TD reception, but drops another one. Taylor/Drew are moving the ball but is it enough? Short passes from Jackson and a hard hitting north/south running style from C.Taylor gives him his first 100/100 game. A hard fought battle and lots of old school football going on today. Childress coaches a tough game but Del Rio is just a little tougher. Jacksonville wins 14-10 (7-4)
Chicago at Minnesota: Welcome back Grossman. 1TD 4 INTs. Kevin Jones and Forte combine for 43 yards on 22 carries. The entire front 4 come away in this one with sacks. The Bears are completely shutdown and the Minnesota OFF gets around the Bear DEF enough to win this one. Minnesota wins 17-3 (8-4)
Detroit at Minnesota: hehe. Minnesota wins 28-13 (9-4)
Minnesota at Arizona: Lienart is pass happy and with his receiving crew, why wouldn’t he be. E.James goes for 100 yards. So does Peterson. So does Berrian. K.Williams lets Lienart know right away he cant stand around in the pocket. J.Allen reminds him 3 plays later. Jackson is looking great. Minnesota wins 31-23 (10-4)
Atlanta at Minnesota: Matt Ryan is throws is 20th INT of the season. Lets give that one to McCauley. Turner passes 1,200 yds as does Peterson. Jackson continuing his solid season with his 20th TD and Berrian passes the 700 yd mark. J.Allen and R.Edwards keep putting on a show and this ones for MN. Minnesota wins 24-7 (11-4)
NYG at Minnesota: Good game back and forth. MN would like to rest their starters but they are fighting for home field advantage over the Cowboys. It’s a key win but the Giants DEF cant keep up with the high powered rushing game. Jackson plays carefully and manages the game well. The Vikes DEF line is held in check the secondary keeps up with the Giants WRs. Manning plays an average game but the Vikes eliminate the Giants from the playoffs and Minnesota goes into the playoffs with a first week bye. Minnesota wins 21-17 (12-4)
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Wow, getting as specific as predicting when people’ll get injured? If you’re a prophet, I hope you’re a good one, cause I wont complain about 12-4… although Chris Johnson is on my fantasy team as a reserve… so I think it’s a MINOR injury… hows that?
this brett favre isht is getting older than ed mcmahon.
McHale and Childress…and we wonder why we can’t win a championship…
Sorry AK. It is a minor injury and he will be back the next week
How big an idiot is Favre for using a PACKERS phone to call Bevel and Chili!? Now I’m thinking this is going to cost us.
Come on this is crazy! Just retire already…I have lost all respect for this guy…it’s time he calls it quits instead of bouncing around like a tennis ball! Go out with some sort of “class”
As big an idiot as Childress for taking the call….
Yeah but tampering happens all the time and it’s not that hard to get away with, Favre just had to call on a phone the Fockers didn’t have access to. But Childress still should have been more careful.
If Brett retired, why does he still have a packer phone?
This is going to cost us a pick. It better be a low one.
Source: Brett Favre used Packer facilities to play in the NFL.
Is Brett really that stupid? Or was it a plan by the Packers because they knew Childress would be dumb enough to answer the phone every time…. Did he answer the phone?
Expodis -
You need to get a job … or a girlfriend.
You even went so far as to pick a couple upsets (wins for the Packers and Houston @ the dome?!) to not look like too big a homer.
Well if Favre used the Packers phone to place calls to members of the Vikings staff, doesn’t that mean the Packers were tampering with the Vikings?
[…] The Bob McGinn item we mentioned earlier in the day puts some meat on that bone. As quoted by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, McGinn writes for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that Favre was using a team-issued cell phone, and that the records show calls with Bevell and Childress. […]
The phone records would show he answered the phone and how long they talked. Chili’s probably going to claim he was just trying to be polite and was really getting irritated because Favre was bothering him so often.
Hopefully Chili learned a thing or two from Mase…the infamous “if the phone rings, I will listen” comes to mind.
Hopefully Chili learned a thing or two from Mase…the infamous “if the phone rings, I will listen” comes to mind.
Maybe this was all a setup by the Pukkers & Favra to get back at the Vikes cause they know they don’t have achance this year.
No, Chili will say Favre kept calling his wife asking her if it looked really bad for an old quarterback too be whining on TV all the time.
No, Chili will say Favre kept calling his wife asking her if it looked really bad for an old quarterback too be whining on TV all the time.
That’s hilarious the PFT article, the Fockers could get in salary cap trouble if Favre and the other players were using Packers cell phones.
We’re talking about phone calls in the last what, month? When was Favre off the active roster - March? Salary cap violation? Pretty sure the Packers would have done due diligence on cell phone bills. The tampering is the serious issue here.
I just hope the calls don’t turn out to be some kind of phone sex thing.
Sharockman, take off your purple tinted glasses for at least a second, would you? It’s quite possible that he reported “TO” rather than between. Regardless, Favre could have been returning voicemails from Childress for all you know. Besides, Childress had NO prior relationship with each other whatsoever. If there are multiple phone calls between them after the Packers told Favre it was too late to come back and they were moving on, then it’s obvious they were talking about a way to get Favre to come to the Vikings as his Plan B.
Given that the Vikings were basically silent after the Packers filed the tampering charges, it’s pretty obvious that they knew they got caught with their hand in the cookie jar and anything they said except for a complete denial could be used against them. If they didn’t tamper, they would have certainly denied it publicly through a press release. Of course when you’re guilty, denying it on the record will only make you look like fools again when you are found guilty.
Just another sweet move by the most historically horribly mismanaged team in the NFL! Herschel Walker trade, can’t get draft picks in on time not one, but 2 years in a row, head coach scalping super bowl tickets, hiring the Chiller. And people wonder why the super bowl trophy case is empty and there’s no new stadium in the works.
OK, boys and girls, check it out. Favre, sporting the biggest ego in the universe, is orchestrating this whole mess. This guy bores me to tears.
The ego part is correct. But…why would he orchestrate a mess for the Vikings if that’s the team he wants to really play for?! The Packers told him to stay on his tractor.
He just loves the attention, that’s all. He makes me nauseous.
The whole retirement thing was done with the intention of making a later announcement that he’d changed his mind. The Packers threw him a curve when they said he’d have to be a backup. What an ass this guy is!
VikesSuck - If you own a cell phone, you’ll notice that the bill (that you can’t afford to pay) lists both Incoming and Outgoing calls. This moron of a annonymous ’source” that keeps feeding the press scraps, but doesn’t have the balls to be named, should be able to differenciate between Incoming and Outgoing calls when he leaks his gossip.
It makes all the difference in the world… dumbass. Go back to your dad’s basement and dust your replica Vince Lombardi Trophy.
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And who is to prove that this is not a ploy to up one on their opponent? Maybe Washington will have Campbell start calling the Cowboys so they lose draft picks…
Shrockman, or should I call you Mr. Mensa? Oh wait, you probably don’t know what Mensa is. I’ll give you a hint, it’s a group where smart people with high IQ’s can take a test to prove that they are smart and become a member.
First of all, you need to put down the crack pipe for a second so you can at least be aware of your ignorance.
I was simply stating that given the situation, it’s entirely possible that it was reported as phone calls to Childress’s phone when the opposite also occured. Regardless, IT DOESN’T MATTER!!! They had no relationship whatsoever and who’s to say that Childress didn’t leave him voicemails on another phone line and Favre returned them on his cell phone or that Bevell didn’t tell him that Childress wanted him to call? Once again, this doesn’t matter. You need to go and understand what tampering is and means with regards to NFL policy.
Favre and Childress had no relationship or ties to a friendship (ie. former coach, etc) so if there are calls that lasted any significant amount of time between the two that occurred before Favre asked for his release and after they told him that they weren’t interested in him coming back because they moved on, then the NFL would have more than enough evidence to conclude that tampering was involved. Why else would they have been talking if they’ve never talked before?
The SF 49er’s were charged and punished with tampering for not even initiating a phone call to discuss Lance Brigg’s. His agent called them to discuss and they were guilty of listening and having a conversation, once again that they didn’t even initiate.
A player cannot be charged with tampering you moron. How would Favre be tampering even if he did initiate a phone call? He’s the one under contract to the Packers. Childress should have said that he cannot discuss anything with Favre, even if he did in fact bring it up to him. Obviously the numerous calls to Bevell would be just as suspicious, but at least they could just say that they’re buddies. That said, if they looked at the records and saw that him and Favre normally talked every few months and then noticed that they talked a bunch of times in a week, that would be enough circumstantial evidence that something fishy was going on based on the time line of events with regards to the phone calls and Favre asking for his release.
If there are repeated phone calls that lasted more than a few minutes, it’s obvious to any intelligent person what the topic of the conversation would have been once again given the time frame of him asking for his release. It’s more than plausible that a fed up Favre even said something to the effect of “If you don’t want me back, then release me because I know the Vikings would gladly take me due to the fact that they have a sh*tty QB and from conversations I’ve had with them.”
Something tipped the Packers off that the Vikings were tampering with a player under contract to even make them pull his phone records. If there are any substantial conversations in those records between him and the coach of another team that he had no prior relationship with before.
You make Mike Tice look like a genius in comparison!
PS. As for the basement, I am pretty sure that the basement of the house that I OWN is bigger than your entire house. There aren’t many people as dumb as you that are lucky enough to land a job that pays them well enough to have a 6000 sq. ft house!
Nice rant…lol. Glad I got under your skin.
You didn’t get under my skin. The sad part is that I know you were serious in your post and not just trying to spout off nonsense to get under my skin. I actually feel sorry for you, so it’s my compassionate side coming out. It’s gotta be hard going through life with the intelligence of a gnat/Brad Childress!
“Packer provided cell phone”, RIGHT! Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and General Petraeus illegally accessed private phone records and will now send Favre and Bevell to Guantanamo Bay to be water-boarded, tortured and probably killed.
[…] Report: Packers’ Have Favre’s Phone Records [Minneapolis Star-Tribune] […]
If Childress called Favre, he should be fired. That would show very bad judgment.
Maybe Favre is trying to screw up the Vikings because in his heart he will always be a Packer:-)
NEWSFLASH:
NEWSFLASH: Brett Favre just unloaded a monsterous bomb into the Packers lockeroom toilet - and it was caught on tape!!!!
NEWSFLASH: Brett Favre just unloaded a monsterous bomb into the Packers lockeroom toilet - and it was caught on tape!!!!
question…why would a multi-millionaire not have his own cell phone and have to get one issued for him? This is stupidity beyond belief if it’s actually true.
Who Cares, Favre makes millions of dollars and he called on a cell phone of the Packers to the Vikings. Just a bunch of Drama Queens!
[…] However, both the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had an interesting item today. Turns out that Favre and the Minnesota Vikings were busted because the quarterback contacted his perspective future employer using his PACKERS CELL PHONE! […]
[…] The possibility of Favre having used a phone issued by the Packers had been speculated on last week after the Associated Press reported that Green Bay informed the NFL it felt “an investigation of the phone records would show more than ‘normal contact’ between the Vikings and Favre, even before he formally asked for his release to play for another team.” (H/T - Minneapolis StarTribune) […]
[…] “In what appears to be a brainlock of epic proportions, Brett Favre was using his team-issued cell phone to chat with Vikings offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell and coach Brad Childress, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. There’s no link because it’s tucked behind a pay wall. Worth noting: Pro Football Talk had this last week.” — The Big Lead […]
Favre’s a joke. His prolonged love affair with drug use and steroids has taken its tole on him. He just trashed his entire career.
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