We all know that Brett Favre was a tremendous drunk, but did you know that his old coach shipped him off to Green Bay in an effort to get him sober? Because according to legendary douchebag Jerry Glanville that’s exactly why his Falcons made their historically lopsided trade with Green Bay. What, you thought it had something to do with Glanville never wanting Favre to begin with? Oh that’s just silly. You probably also think that Peyton Manning’s Super Bowl interception was an “accident.”
“I had to get him out of Atlanta. . . . I could not sober him up,” Glanville said. “I sent him to a city where at 9:00 at night the only thing that’s open is Chili Joes. You can get it two ways, with or without onions. And that’s what made Brett Favre make a comeback was going to a town that closed down. If I would have traded him to New York, nobody to this day would have known who Brett Favre ever was.”
Man, that Glanville. What a human being. Had he not sent Favre to the safe haven of Wisconsin (a place where you can barely even find alcohol) the future MVP’s career could have been tainted by excessive drinking and, perish the thought, drug use. Consider that bullet dodged.
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Chili JOHN’s dummy.
so a fucker that wise could never go from the nfl to getting fired from the football powerhouse known as the portland state vikings, right?
I just got back from a trip to Wisconsin, there are places out in the country where, if there isn’t a town close by to hit the bars, they’ll just have a bar pop up, all by itself at some crossroads. And the parking lots were half full at 10am…I think I’m going to move there.
Big deal, Jerry Glanville traded me to Wisconsin because I had a weight problem.
Just the other day, I’d seen pictorial evidence showing that Wisconsin has more bars than grocery stores.
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/449-great-party-place-wisconsin-or-americas-beer-belly/
Sending someone to Wisconsin to sober them up is like…
I actually can’t think of something at that level of stupidity.
I fucked Glanville….. Doug Glanville
Also it’s not exactly a secret. I’ve been cut off before at bars while on vacation and gotten served again once I proved I was from wi. Probably the only time being from here has ever been to my advantage.
I live in green bay and Jerry must have never been here because there are bars everywhere here. Even the residential areas. My regular bar is a split building, the other half is a gas station. It sucks here 9 months out of the year weather wise so we really haven’t much else to do but get sloppy drunk and eat deep fried food.
I knew it wasn’t an accident
Well, maybe Buffalo. Or Cleveland. I don’t know. Look, the point is Wiskansas sucks.
Don’t mean to defend him…
Wiskansans are actually a bunch of limp-wristed pansies who who like to talk a lot of shit about drinking hard, but then don’t really do it. The reason people visit Wiskansas and think the people there drink a lot is because it is easy to confuse people who appear drunk with people who are merely retarded, as virtually all Wiskansans are.
Glanville is about as dumb as they come, and I certainly mean to defend him, but what NFL city would have been a better choice to send a drug and alcohol abusing player? You know, if you’re stupid like Glanville and think shipping a player to another team might actually help him overcome his addictions.
…That’s just… Wow. I have NOTHING to add to that.
It’s funny, really, because some of those breweries are in small towns. Like the New Glarus Brewery in that list, where I live. This town doesn’t even have 3,000 people, but the beer is highly enjoyed around the state. (We tried selling it outside of the state, but the Sex Cannon diluted the beer so much, we pulled out from Illinois many years ago.)
+1 G.G.
What if Glanville was actually the driving force behind every failure that has ever occurred in history?
Glanville: I told the French their guns were too damn loosy-goosey, so they put up the Maginot Line. That was all me, fellas.
Glanville went on to add “and the Packers were the only team interested in the redneck sonuvabitch”.
As a Portland State grad, can’t say I’m sad to see that douchenozzle gone from town.
I can’t imagine a dumber statement being made. Going to WI to sober up is like going to AZ to heal from skin cancer.
Two douchebags who richly deserve each other. Wonder if Favre should leave tickets for Elvis at the season opener when he returns this Fall (oh, stop it, you know he is).
So he got Favre out of a city where you can’t buy a sixpack on Sundays and sent him to the beer — or what passes for it in Wisconsin — capitol of the Midwest.
Huzzah!
4 Years ago in Puerta Vallarta, the resort I was at had a beer drinking/chugging contest — The winner? an 18 year old girl from Madison ~~ I, of course, thought Madison, Wisconsin, but now realize that she actually was from Madison, Georgia. Now I realize my error because no 18 year old girl from Wisconsin drinks beer.
/didn’t enter contest
//wouldn’t have won contest
///a man has got to know his limitations
Jerry Glanville? More like Doug Glanville.
So that’s not a button down shirt, huh.
He shoulda been a Catholic archbishop. They like to help kid-touching priests by shipping them to another diocese. You know, the ones that don’t have any of those tempting children.
/Ratzingered
Glanville’s heart is as big as his belt buckle.
No, seriously, he should probably see a doctor about that.
If Glanville could only sober his own ass up, maybe his coaching career wouldn’t have fallen to collegiate division I-AA.
“I had to get [Glanville] out of Atlanta… I could not get him to win. I sent him to a town where there is no football.”
- Rankin Smith
He also thought it would be a pretty awesome idea to go ahead and let MC Hammer hang out with the players and training camp and stand on the Georgia Dome sidelines during home games.
/remembers Falcons from 1989-1994
//Shoots self in Face
I think Glanville is Jimmy Clausen’s dad.
He especially made sure Favre would be close to Madison, a small, sleepy college town where the students only study and hold Bible groups at night.
Green Bay sent him to New York, because they were sure there was no Vicodin there.
No, no drinking in Wisconsin at all……I live in a town of 8000 people. We have 27 bars here.
Drew owes Jerry Glanville a great deal of gratitude. Lofty gratitude.
Yup, a cold, barren wasteland devoid of any culture or nightlife will sober a man right up. Just look at Russia!
As if I didn’t already blame Jerry Glanville for many things that occurred during my childhood…
now I get to blame him for the annual Favre “will-he-won’t-he” news coverage every summer?
Damn you, Jerry!
/former Oilers fan
So Drew can thank Glanville for that soul stomping pick in the NFC Championship Game then huh? SUH-WEEEET!
how can this be? my friend was on a business trip to Green Bay and told me there’s a fucking bar on every corner … including the suburbs!
He wears that belt buckle, but Favre’s the one with the drug problem? What a democracy.
What Glanville didn’t know was the Chili Joe’s had 150 beers on tap.
Jerry Glanville’s all about TCB. And fried baloney.