We know you’ve tried to block out Brett Favre’s pre-Jet days, but you might remember that he was offered $20 million over 10 years to stay away from the team. Man, talk about f-you money. But the general perception was that the money would’ve been to basically do nothing, just vamoose. It turns out nothing could’ve been further from the truth. In addition to maintaining a clothing line, making appearances and singing autographs, he would’ve had to keep a blog. We’re going to say it would’ve been the worst blog ever.

“[T]he Packers’ proposed 10-year deal for Favre included a line of clothing, merchandise and collectibles. The Packers Pro Shop would have become the exclusive distributor of autographed Favre memorabilia, and Favre would sign 300 items a year for the team’s use.

Favre also would have been required to make 10 personal appearances each year — including two private hunting or golfing trips — and a blog would have been created for Favre on the team’s Web site.”

Now, we’re not going to say Favre would be a horrible blogger because he’s an athlete. There are tons of great ones out there (although most are ghostwritten). But with the way he’s handled this whole retirement/non-retirement thing, we’d expect him to tackle (or hand off) his blog with the tenacity of a recently dumped goth girl opening a Livejournal account. He’d start out with a bang, maybe even two posts per day, talking about his routine—maybe his bowflex workout— and his eating regimen. Maybe he’d write about some trip he took to a sick ward to cheer up some Louisiana or Wisconsin youths (talk about photo uploads!). But then, once he started to realize the commitment, the two a days turn into once a day. And then one day he gets a cold and blows off the blog off for a little bit. Before you know it, Favre’s blog will have three month gaps between posts, and even some of those will just be LOL cats pictures he found, along with an apology for not writing. And then finally, one day, he’s just going to write a post about how he just doesn’t have time anymore and his blog will be 404’d… and then that motherfucker will come back three months later talkin’ about “Naw, I was just kidding” and start posting twice a day from a cafe in Brooklyn.

So cliche.

Favre’s deal with Packers included souvenirs, blog, report says [ESPN]
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