In an interview on Monday’s Jim Rome Show, Jay Glazer of FOX shared some more details regarding the report that Brett Favre spent 60-to-90 minutes helping the Lions prepare for the Packers. Glazer says that the situation arose while former Lions CEO Matt Millen and Favre had a phone conversation in connection with Millen’s interest in taking Favre hunting. As Glazer explains it, when the pair finally got on the line together, the dialogue coincidentally occurred in the week before the Packers-Lions game. Glazer attributes the discussion that ensued between Favre and Lions coaches to Favre’s affinity for holding court. “He just goes,” Glazer said, referring to experiences with Favre during production meetings from Glazer’s days as a sideline reporter. Most importantly, Glazer said that he stands by the story “1,000 percent.” “You can’t be 95 percent on this,” Glazer said. “You can’t be 99 percent on this.” As to the possibility (raised by Rome) that Glazer was fed bad information by sources who wanted to make Favre look bad, Glazer said that the information came from folks who “didn’t care one way or the other,” and that Packers sources were not part of the equation. As to Favre’s denial, Glazer pointed out that Favre initially called reports of his emergence from retirement as “rumor.” (In other words, Glazer politely called Favre a liar.) Glazer also explained why he didn’t call Favre for a response. Glazer said that he feared Favre would have promptly called someone from ESPN to give them Favre’s skewed version of the situation. With the ESPN pregame show starting an hour before FOX’s, it would have been easy for ESPN to “scoop” Glazer. (But since ESPN didn’t break the story, there’s not a single reference to it on ESPN.com. Even the army of eight former beat writers who cover four teams each for ESPN.com have yet to mention the story.) Glazer is scheduled to talk about the situation again on Tuesday’s Dan Patrick Show.
GLAZER GIVES MORE DETAILS ON FAVRE REPORT
Published October 20, 2008 10:05 AM