The Packers Fumble the Favre Situation

By John Appicello
WSLS10 Sports Anchor
Published: August 7, 2008

  The Drive:
    As the Olympics begin I can’t help but wonder if politics aren’t going to take center stage here. The Human rights issues in China are the stuff of the deepest kind of emotion—and the Olympics are a stage unlike any other. The opportunity to make some kind of statement—with the world watching—always exists come Olympic time, but I can only hope it is a peaceful one. No matter what happens, I trust NBC News will be there with the experience and understanding to put it in its proper perspective.

The Fairway:
    The Packers are ridiculous. My opinion, set like that concrete you poured for the fence post this past week. The press conferences were just silly….filled with the kind of political double speak only Ari Fleischer could deliver. The Packers hired him to help with the PR nightmare). You tried to freeze him out, you tried to buy him off..then you begged the guy to stay away. Worry about your own legacy, I say. If he’s that much of a pain, and he’s “held you hostage” the past couple of seasons…deal him, release him…be done with him in the name of money or prudence. Get in front of the issue…don’t react to it. But they bumbled, they stumbled, and ultimately, they divorced. Good luck Aaron Rogers, with one suggestion. Don’t start slowly young man….
  The J-E-T-S Jets! odds to win the Super bowl dropped from 75 to 1…to 15 to 1. Nice.

The Green:
    Did you notice our good buddy Chip Sullivan dropping a 65 on the PGA tour in Reno? As I’ve told him, he’s the best player in America with a job. Chip has a real job(head pro at Ashley Plantation) and a family, and somehow manages to trade strokes with guys who sleep with their putters and never leave the game 24/7. He obviously can’t spend eight hours a day beating balls like those full-time tour guys. Amazing stuff.

The Jar:
    College football is right around the corner and I have a couple of thoughts. I played golf with Georgia Tech play-by-play institution Wes Durham and wow, can he crush the ball. He’s got game away from the mic. What I enjoyed more than playing his 300 yards drives was how he reacted to Boston College coach Jags hitting his own 300 yard drive off the top of Wes’s cart. Some might have been a tad, well…upset that the Eagles coach hit into us…but he calmly teed the ball up and left it in the fairway, there for all to see. Then, every time Jags cart got near us..Wes reminded him of his errant missile.
    The Cavs need a quarterback, the Hokies need some young receivers to step up, and as of this writing, my beloved Gators need a tight end.  I pains me to write this, but Georgia has the best team in America, but also the toughest schedule. Probably the clearest road through to the title exists for either the Buckeyes or the Sooners, but they’ll lose again to a one loss Georgia or Alabama or LSU or Florida or Auburn team that wins the SEC title game. And so it goes…