Clock Ticks On Packers’ Dispute With Favre
Clock Ticks On Packers‘ Dispute With Favre
As the Green Bay Packers sorted through their trade options for Brett Favre, time was running short for them to try to resolve their dispute with the retired quarterback before training camp begins this weekend.
Executives with other teams said they still regarded the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Carolina Panthers as the teams most likely to acquire Favre if the Packers trade him. The Packers are scheduled to report to training camp Sunday and practice Monday, and several people familiar with the situation, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic, said club officials were doing all they could to settle the matter before then.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden, a Packers assistant from 1992-94, said today that he did not know whether the team had been given permission to speak to retired Packers quarterback Brett Favre but did …
Bucs safety tasered during arrest at nightclub (AP)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers reserve safety Donte Nicholson was tasered twice and arrested during a weekend scuffle with police officers at the entrance of a St. Petersburg nightclub. The third-year pro, who appeared in one game last season, was taken to Pinellas County Jail early Sunday and charged with misdemeanor battery and resisting arrest without violence.
Jon Gruden’s reputation has been transformed from that of “offensive genius” to “Mr. Inconsistent” as coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
2008 Cowboys’ opponents: Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The last time the Cowboys played against Tampa Bay, Tony Romo threw five touchdown passes on Thanksgiving 2006.
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