Well it looks like the 6′9, 345 pounds monster tackle of the Baltimore Ravens, Jonathan Ogden, is calling it a career.  He was the staple that held together the O-line in Baltimore all the way back to their 2000 Superbowl win.  He made it to the Pro Bowl 11 straight seasons and kept defensive ends at bay when trying to rush whoever their QB was (Boller, Dilfer, Redman, whoever).  But injuries in the past few seasons kept him off the field and helped faster defenders to rush past him.  Remember a year ago against the Super Bowl Champs that year Colts (they were 13- 3 that year!)?  I know that he will be in the Hall of Fame soon, as soon as 2013 with Brett Favre.

But on a side note, don’t have many pics but from this pic, his wife looks pretty hot.

Photo by:  Ralph Fountain

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Check out video of Packer great Brett Favre breakdown during his press conference on his retiring. I have to admit, it got me when I watched it live. There were times in the past where I hated on Brett, but as I continued to watch, he gained my respect. He played with a lot of passion and a gunslinger’s mentality, shooting his guns until there were no rounds left in the chamber. Oh yes, there were times he shot blanks, but there were other times he could not miss.

Favre said, “I promised I wouldn’t get emotional” and then, after a long pause, “It’s never easy. You know, it’s funny, I watched hundreds of players retire, and you wonder what that would be like. You think you’re prepared.”

He then took about 20 seconds to regain his composure before continuing, by saying what he said to his wife prior to the press conference: “I was telling Deanna on the way over here, God has blessed me with so many great things, abilities, wonderful family, and as I was flying up here today I thought about so many things and I wanted to say so many things that I feel like I needed to say. But He gave me an opportunity to use my abilities and I seized that opportunity. I thank Him for that.”

He then said, “I’d like to thank the Packers for giving me the opportunity as well.” And then he broke into tears again as he said, “I hope that every penny … I hope that every penny that they’ve spent on me, they know that’s money well spent. It was never about the money, the fame, the records. I hear people talk about ‘Your accomplishments’ and things that — it was never my accomplishments, it was our accomplishments.”

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Here’s the voicemail message sent to Chris Mortensen from now retired Brett Favre on the day that he chose to leave the NFL.  He speaks about him being tired and it was Superbowl or Bust for him.  I don’t think that there will be many like Brett to come along because I don’t know how many teams could tolerate a QB with his off the field problems, slung it around like he did with the INTs, but still came up big when it counted.  I don’t think teams would wait to see the good, with all the bad could go wrong.  This was the guy who’s first pass in the NFL was one to himself, go figure.

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Well, we knew this was inevitable that the great Brett Favre would announce his retirement after a 17 year run.  From his drunken days in Atlanta to his pain pill addictions in Green Bay, he was able to fight those demons to become one the NFL’s most popular QBs ever.  3 time MVP, Super Bowl Champ, and coming off of his best season in a few years, it comes to me as a shock that he would retire now.  He showed last year that he till had it, but considering the thing that haunted him the most did him in on a snowy night in Green Bay which was INTs, it is almost poetic justice for it to end the way that it did from him. 

I loved his no holds barred approach to the game leaving it all on the field, but sometimes the INTs were a little too much for me.  But who could forget the great game against Oakland after his dad died where every throw seemed to fall in a Packer’s hand, or the first superbowl win against the Pats, or his dominance over the NFC North.  There was so much he did in his career that I will always remember.  Thanks for the memories Brett, now don’t do a Michael Jordan and come back.  We want to remember you the way that we do.

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Check out what REALLY happens in Green Bay Wisconsin during Packer games. The chicks come out at night! Check out photos of the Lambeau Field Bikini Girls:

I wonder who got to go home and warm these ladies up after the game. Maybe this guy, he did win the game.

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It seems that Brett now wants to attend mini camp after blowing off the team so that he could prepare for his daughter’s graduation that is A WEEK AFTER CAMP IS OVER! 

“They were going to have me sit out anyway,” he said in an article on the paper’s Web site. “To be honest, we have [daughter] Brittany graduating in two weeks. Instead of going up there and not doing anything, I will be better off being at home because of graduation parties and banquets.”

I ain’t got no problems with him wanting to be there for his daughter’s graduation.  You can’t get that day back, but the Packers are giving you an ass of money and you have a job to do.  If you are healed from your ankle injury, your ass should be out there.  What you look like planning balloons, clowns and party favorites, I’m sure your wife and family members can handle that.

Sounds to me that it’s sour grapes over not getting Moss (I still think you got screwed by management, you still my boy).  Maybe they are trying to tell you that we don’t want you know more.  Kinda like the girlfriend that don’t wanna hurt your feelings so she just cheats on you until you break up with them.  Retire already or sit down with management and ask for a trade like a grown up.  Don’t do your politicking in the media because they are not your friends.  You still haven’t found that out yet? Take your lazy ass to mini camp or let Aaron Rogers take over the reigns from here so that franchise can have a future.

We loved you when you were winning a super bowl, loved you when we watched you in that unforgettable night after losing your dad, and loved you when you were the gun slinger that just didn’t give a fuck.  Now, you are just the gunslinger who needs to drop their weapons because your aim ain’t worth shit.  Now you just miss right into defenders hands.  Maybe its time to just hang it up, because it looks like Green Bay has given up on you. 

Meanwhile, after the great Brett Favre Party, we have pictures from this grand party Brett’s planned for his daughter:

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