Florio doesn’t believe Brett Favre will walk away. According to this poll, you guys don’t believe Favre either.
Let’s see what the rest of the NFL had to say about the sport’s longest running and highest-rated soap opera.
1. Most Vikings teammates said they hadn’t heard from Favre. Jared Allen revealing pleaded the fifth, but did say, “I still hope we see him in a couple of weeks. But the sun is going to rise tomorrow and we’re going to have football whether Brett Favre shows up or not.”
2. Vikings tight end Visanthe Shiancoe on SportsCenter: “I’d be lying if I didn’t tell you it wasn’t a blow to hear something like that. I feel like it may give us a little setback to our team. But it’s not nothing that we can’t overcome.”
3. Unnamed Jets player: “That’s [bull], stringing them along this far.”
4. Rex Ryan: “If he’s not playing in Week 5, I’ll be happy as heck.”
5. Best pal, Packers G.M. Ted Thompson: “I haven’t thought of it. To tell you the truth somebody mentioned it to me out on the practice field, and I don’t know anything about it.”
6. Packers safety Nick Collins: “You know Brett is Brett. We’ll see. Time will tell.”
7. Packers linebacker Nick Barnett: “We’re going to have the same goal whether it’s Tarvaris [Jackson], Jeffrey Dahmer or Norman Bates quarterbacking. We’re still trying to do the same thing.”
8. Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher when told Favre wasn’t coming back: “Not coming back to training camp?”
9. Former teammate Dorsey Levens: “I’ll be very surprised if he walks away.”
10. Mike Shanahan, Keyshawn Johnson, and just about everyone else: “I’ll believe it when I see it.”