Green Bay Packers certain Brett Favre stays retired

And it looks like the Packers will make sure it stays that way... He he...

But then again, maybe not. But as far as the coming 2008-09 NFL football season is concerned, the Packers believe that the biggest star of their franchise to date won't suit up, staying retired since making the announcement at the end of last season.

You see, rumors began to come out last week that Brett Favre will postpone retirement for the third straight year and return to the field as football's ''Ultimate Packer.'' Of course, Favre initially didn't agree but since we are still a long way from the start of the season, you can't really blame Packer fans for hoping.

But after the Green Bay Packers made the announcement, confirming that No.4 will stay retired, will their fans still keep on hoping? Current and former team presidents of the Packers organization believes that Favre will remain retired and coming back for his 18th NFL season is not even a plan whatsoever for probably the greatest quarterback to ever play the game.

''I keep going back to his retirement announcement and how sincere and heartfelt that was,'' current team president and CEO Mark Murphy said. ''I think it's pretty reasonable that, as an organization, we're going to move on.''

The Packers' chairman emeritus Bob Harlan also added his thoughts on the said Favre comeback. ''What I remember about him is he was ready to retire, and that's how I feel today. I think down deep, that's exactly how he feels.''

A few days ago, news broke out about Favre claiming he still has the ''itch'' to play football. Unfortunately, the Packers have yet to address the public about this so-called itch.

''We've had 5-year-old kids ask us about it,'' Murphy added. ''It's obviously on a lot of people's minds.''

''No player leaves the game gracefully. It's kind of the nature of what makes great players great, is they're competitors and they always want to compete and they want that next challenge, and it's hard to find that next thing that's going to give you that excitement and adrenaline. That's what we're seeing a little bit here.''

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