The Pelican Brief: My Theory of What's Happening

Through all of this, something just hasn't sat right.  It's too weird, too dramatic, too shrouded in fog.  On the one hand, we appear to be twisting and turning along with BF's heart, and yet...

Earlier today I was trying to figure out who stands to get rich by all of this.  I can't understand how Bus Cook would.

I can't understand how Favre would.

But what if...

(note to reader: wild speculation to follow. however, it is testable, and therefore scientifically valid)

It's March, 2008, a couple weeks after Brett retired.  He's starting to think he made a mistake.  He feels better, he's excited about football, his body's entirely recovered.  So he talks to his family about it and Bus and everyone tells him to go for it, and he calls up the Pack, and they say, "Hey, yeah!  Come back."  TT and MM charter a plane, get ready for a press-conference.

Then Favre starts thinking about the NFC-Championship game.

Cold weather.

Soldier Field a couple weeks before.

Favre thinks: I can still play.

I can still play, except when it's really cold.  I can't play in extremely cold games anymore.  I know I can't do it.

What if Brett admitted this to himself?  For real?  Just honestly thought about it and realized he was no longer capable of outplaying Eli Manning if the temperature was below 10 degrees.  He would have realized that no matter how fond he was of the team and his history, it made no sense for him to play for Green Bay anymore, this late in his career.

So he calls Jon Gruden.

Jon Gruden says, "Um, yes?"

Jon Gruden then goes into work and tells his negotiators, "Don't do the deal with Garcia."

Brett goes to Bus and says, "What would I have to do to get onto the Bucs?"

Bus thinks.

Bus says, "Well, wait a few more months.  We'll do it just before training camp.  Say nothing until then.  And call off that chartered plane.  Tell them you changed your mind."

As I said, it's testable.  My thesis is this: everything that's been happening in the last week has been planned and choreographed.

It will be proven.

How, say you?

Jon Gruden and the Bucs will be offering a first-round pick for Favre in the next week.

And if they don't, this is just a blog with no accountability and it doesn't matter at all.

Comments

[MC]

Something that's been percolating in the back of my head since the retirement press conference in March --- something I perhaps didn't want to admit to myself --- was that the so-called "retirement" circus back then was actually more of a devious relocation strategy orchestrated by Bus Cook. Masterfully played, when you think about it. The tears were real, after all, because Brett was retiring from the Packers, but not the NFL.

[theruffian]

Interesting theory, makes a lot of sense. If true it's the ultimate betrayl. First time visitor btw. Nice blog.