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Packers Prez Murphy Says Team Welcomes Favre Back

Brett Favre is back. It remains to be seen whether he’ll still be the leader of the Pack.

The Green Bay Packers reluctantly embraced Favre’s forced return to the football field Sunday, after failing to come to a financial agreement that would manage to make Favre happy while staying retired.

The NFL announced Sunday that Favre will be reinstated and added to the Packers’ active roster on Monday. Commissioner Roger Goodell had held off on granting Favre’s request for reinstatement for nearly a week, hoping Favre and the team could resolve their standoff.

“Although we built this year around the assumption that Brett meant what he said about retiring, Brett is coming back,” said team president and CEO Mark Murphy. “We will welcome him back and turn this situation to our advantage.”

A private plane carrying Favre, wife Deanna and agent James “Bus” Cook arrived in Green Bay shortly after 8 p.m. EDT Sunday night. Favre exited the plane and waved to a crowd of several hundred fans gathered at the airport — in a severe lightning storm, no less — before driving off in an SUV.

The reinstatement will become effective at 1 p.m. EDT Monday, when Favre will be added to the Packers’ active roster. By reinstating Favre, Goodell is following through on a recent promise to force action.

Now, I don’t know about you, but I think it’s time for Favre to grow up! He played emotional games with the state of Wisconsin when he hem and hawed about retiring …..was it last year? Then, he says he’s retiring, goes home to Mississippi, Wisconsin mourned, they moved on.

How does this affect me down here in Tennessee? Well, since the only radio we can get comes out of Mississippi…. YOU figure it out! sigh….