Freezing Cold Takes by Fred Segal

Author:Fred Segal [Segal, Fred]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780762475452
Publisher: Running Press
Published: 2022-08-09T00:00:00+00:00

Ron Wolf zeroes in on his franchise quarterback (1991)

When Wolf said he wanted to move fast on the rebuild, he wasn’t kidding. On December 1, 1991, five days after his introductory press conference and the first day he was officially on the job, Wolf had already homed in on his franchise quarterback. In the press box at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium, while the Packers were warming up to play the Falcons, Wolf told team president Bob Harlan that he was going to find a way to trade for Atlanta’s languishing third-string quarterback, Brett Favre.

Wolf had been smitten with Favre for almost a year. During the 1990 season, while he was a personnel director with the New York Jets, Wolf took a trip to the University of Southern Mississippi, where Favre was a senior in college, to scout and watch his films. He came back extremely impressed, especially with Favre’s strong arm and overwhelming confidence.

Favre was relegated to third on the Falcons’ depth chart during his rookie season in 1991. He only played in two games and had a grand total of four pass attempts. Much of that had to do with his off-the-field antics, which were kept under wraps by the team. His excessive drinking and partying put him in head coach Jerry Glanville’s doghouse. “Favre was always late for meetings, drinking a lot,” recalled then–Falcons general manager Ken Herock. “[He] couldn’t even run the scout team, they were telling me.”

A few days after the Atlanta game, Wolf met with the Packers’ Executive Committee to explain his idea to pursue Favre. Since the Packers are a community-owned franchise, the team does not have an individual owner. Instead, it is owned by a publicly held, nonprofit corporation. A seven-member Executive Committee elected by the team’s Board of Directors governs the corporation. “[The Executive Committee] had no idea who I was talking about,” Wolf told author Rob Reischel in 2015. “But they were all for it.” At least that’s what they told Wolf. Who knows what they said when he left the room. “I sure would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when I walked out,” Wolf said during a 2019 podcast interview. “Because I’m sure that those guys looked at each other and said, ‘My word, what do we do here? We got an idiot in here.’”

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