BREAKING NEWS: Brett Favre Un-Retires...Again

by Josh Gans on April 1, 2009 · 12 comments

Eric Mangini, the new Cleveland Browns Head Coach, asked Brett Favre to come to camp to coach his two battling quarterbacks Brady Quinn and Derek Anderson.

Contract Controversy

After watching a week of throwing and mechanics from both Quinn and Anderson, Favre either had an epiphany or completely lost it. Brett called the New York Jets, paid them a ridiculous sum of money to release him and the very next day came running out of the Cleveland locker room in shoulder pads wearing a #4 Browns Jersey.

I don't know what's more insane; that Mangini called Favre for help, that Favre thinks he can win the quarterback battle in Cleveland or that the Cleveland Browns Press staff already released this statement about Favre's return to the NFL:

This morning the Cleveland Browns are proud to announce that Brett Favre will be our starting quarterback for the 2009 NFL season. We are happy to have Brett join our franchise and know that he can lead the Browns in the right direction.

Brett Favre returns to the NFL for Cleveland Browns

Trade in the Works

With their starting quarterback battle already settled, Cleveland is now actively working on a three-way deal with the Broncos to send Jay Cutler to a new team after he demanded a trade due to his falling out with Josh McDaniels. Sports Fan 4 will keep you updated as more details become known.

Thanks to Maitri and purpleslog for the great photos.

Tagged as: Brett Favre, Cleveland Browns, Eric Mangini

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1 Adam April 1, 2009 at 2:10 pm

Good for the rest of the NFL, bad for the Browns. Wish the Pats played the Cleveland this year so we could send Favre back into retirement.

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2 ninja April 1, 2009 at 2:58 pm

nice. gotta love april fools day!

3 Josh April 2, 2009 at 12:23 pm: absolutely! hope you had as much fun with it as I did.

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4 Maitri April 1, 2009 at 11:56 pm

Haha.

Just so you know:

A) I didn’t take that picture. It was emailed to me.
B) Good thing I’ve been telling myself all day not to believe a word mentioned today.

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5 Josh April 2, 2009 at 12:22 pm

Well thank you again for being the source for the picture. I hope you enjoyed the use I got from it, I sure did!

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6 Maitri April 4, 2009 at 1:05 pm

No problems. Glad you were able to give people mild heart attacks with it. Of course, a small irony is that I just moved to Ohio and, for one teeny-tiny second, thought I’d be able to watch Brett play up in Cleveland.

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7 Josh Gans April 4, 2009 at 2:50 pm: Hey, you never know, the Brett Favre saga will be ongoing until September as always.

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8 PurpleSlog April 2, 2009 at 7:08 am