HATTIESBURG, Miss. — Brett Favre’s agent says talk of his client attempting another NFL comeback is just “speculation.”
Bus Cook said Monday that Favre hasn’t talked to him about any sort of comeback and to his knowledge, Favre “hasn’t talked to anybody else about a comeback” either.
Favre, 41, has insisted he’s done playing football, but after years of flirting with retirement talk he has spread word he could return. Philadelphia’s Michael Vick said on Twitter that he would be honored to have Favre as his backup.
Former Raider Thomas dies.
Former Oakland Raiders cornerback Alonzo “Skip” Thomas, one of the more colorful members of the club’s first Super Bowl championship team, died in Kansas on Sunday of an apparent heart attack.
Thomas, a seventh-round draft pick out of USC in 1972, played six NFL seasons, all with the Raiders, and was on the 1976 team that beat Minnesota in Super Bowl XI.
His death at age 61 came just three days shy of the one-year anniversary of the death of former teammate and close friend Jack Tatum.
CSU, Mines signees.
Two area college players have agreed to college free-agent contracts. Marc Schiechl, an outside linebacker from the Colorado School of Mines, agreed with the Jaguars. Zac Pauga, a fullback from Colorado State, agreed with the Texans.
Schiechl and Pauga were regular attendees of Loren Landow’s offseason conditioning program that also included Broncos players.
They will be able to officially sign contracts starting today.
Mike Klis, The Denver Post
Footnotes.
ESPN reported that the Ravens will cut tight end Todd Heap, wide receiver Derrick Mason and defensive tackle Kelly Gregg.
• Bills wide receiver Paul Hubbard was charged with drunken driving after his vehicle struck a police officer in Buffalo, N.Y.
• The Packers still hope to find a way to celebrate their Super Bowl victory at the White House in August.
• The sports and entertainment company AEG agreed to pay nearly three-quarters of the cost to finance demolition and reconstruction of a convention center building that would be relocated to make space for an NFL stadium in downtown Los Angeles.
The Associated Press
