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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- Brett Favre, who has been treated like family by the Green Bay Packers while deciding if he will leave or quit, criticized the Tennessee Titans' exile of Steve McNair.
"All of the things he has done for that team," Favre said Thursday. "He really has been the face of that team for the last 10 or 11 years, the one bright spot really. To be treated that way I think is really unfair. He doesn't deserve it ... It is not right."
The Titans on April 3 had a team trainer tell McNair, co-MVP in 2003, that he could not work out on the team's property until they can reach a deal reworking his contract. They fear an injury would put them on the hook for $23.46 million under the salary cap.
Favre and McNair have the same agent, Bus Cook.
McNair agreed to a six-year extension with Tennessee for $47 million in June 2001, a deal reworked often to provide the Titans with much-needed salary cap space until now. The Titans declined to pay a $50 million option to extend his deal, which now runs through 2006.
The players' union has filed a grievance on McNair's behalf, charging the Titans breached his contract.
Favre declined to comment about his own playing future, but he made the comments before attending a fundraiser for the Chattanooga football program as a guest of coach Rodney Allison. He was quarterbacks coach at Southern Mississippi when Favre played for the Golden Eagles.
Favre also described Terrell Owens, who played at Chattanooga, as a "phenomenal player, we all think that. I think every team that picks him up thinks that they can maybe change the way he approaches things.
"Dallas is loading up and if he can give them the year that he gave Philly his first year they feel like they'll be in the Super Bowl," Favre said.
"I don't know if there is a player out there who is as dominant as he is, when he wants to be. I know he can't be covered. He is his own worst enemy or has been. But would I have loved to have signed him? Sure."As Favre arrived at Chattanooga's Finley Stadium, he was greeted outside by a Packers fan displaying a sign: "Favre's No. 1 fan from Thailand" and stopped to be photographed with him.
"Jack" Wattanawongsawang, 33, of Chattanooga said he has been a Packers fan since moving to the United States 10 years ago and later getting introduced to football on a visit to Lambeau Field.
Wattanawongsawang said he wants Favre to make decision on his playing future based on "what is best for him. I want it to be best for him. As a Packer fan I'd like to see him as long as I could."
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/football/nfl/04/20/bc.fbn.favre.mcnair.ap/index.html
"All of the things he has done for that team," Favre said Thursday. "He really has been the face of that team for the last 10 or 11 years, the one bright spot really. To be treated that way I think is really unfair. He doesn't deserve it ... It is not right."
The Titans on April 3 had a team trainer tell McNair, co-MVP in 2003, that he could not work out on the team's property until they can reach a deal reworking his contract. They fear an injury would put them on the hook for $23.46 million under the salary cap.
Favre and McNair have the same agent, Bus Cook.
McNair agreed to a six-year extension with Tennessee for $47 million in June 2001, a deal reworked often to provide the Titans with much-needed salary cap space until now. The Titans declined to pay a $50 million option to extend his deal, which now runs through 2006.
The players' union has filed a grievance on McNair's behalf, charging the Titans breached his contract.
Favre declined to comment about his own playing future, but he made the comments before attending a fundraiser for the Chattanooga football program as a guest of coach Rodney Allison. He was quarterbacks coach at Southern Mississippi when Favre played for the Golden Eagles.
Favre also described Terrell Owens, who played at Chattanooga, as a "phenomenal player, we all think that. I think every team that picks him up thinks that they can maybe change the way he approaches things.
"Dallas is loading up and if he can give them the year that he gave Philly his first year they feel like they'll be in the Super Bowl," Favre said.
"I don't know if there is a player out there who is as dominant as he is, when he wants to be. I know he can't be covered. He is his own worst enemy or has been. But would I have loved to have signed him? Sure."As Favre arrived at Chattanooga's Finley Stadium, he was greeted outside by a Packers fan displaying a sign: "Favre's No. 1 fan from Thailand" and stopped to be photographed with him.
"Jack" Wattanawongsawang, 33, of Chattanooga said he has been a Packers fan since moving to the United States 10 years ago and later getting introduced to football on a visit to Lambeau Field.
Wattanawongsawang said he wants Favre to make decision on his playing future based on "what is best for him. I want it to be best for him. As a Packer fan I'd like to see him as long as I could."
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/football/nfl/04/20/bc.fbn.favre.mcnair.ap/index.html
