Brett Favre addresses Mark Gastineau's confrontation

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Brett Favre addresses Mark Gastineau's confrontation on Twitter, do we believe him?

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00:00Okay, here was the Brett Favre, uh, he was the Brett Favre tweets.

00:04So Brett Favre, he said, I want to clear the air on the footage release

00:09showing the small dust up between myself and Mark Gasser, really a dust up.

00:14The former New York jet.

00:16So here's a thread.

00:19This, this needs a thread.

00:20You know, Brett, you're allowed to tweet long now.

00:23Anyway, back in 2002, when Michael Shrayan sacked me at the end of the

00:26that we had wrapped up, I was in no way trying to hurt Mark Castano.

00:31I was trying to close out a game, squeeze out the last bit

00:34of fun of a hard fraud game.

00:36I booted out of a run thinking it would be wide open.

00:38I saw straight hand standing there and ducked down.

00:40The game was over.

00:41There was no need for me to do anything spectacular.

00:44Probably wasn't Michael's best sack or tackle for loss in a different game or

00:47situation, I might've made a bigger effort to avoid the sack or the tackle for loss.

00:51But at no point was I thinking about hurting Mark Gastineau, maybe across my

00:55mind to help stray hand, but I didn't think it through.

00:58That wasn't my forte at the time.

01:00I just want to have fun and compete in retrospect.

01:03I understand how Gastineau feels.

01:05We played a brutal game.

01:06Gastineau played during an era where guys didn't make generational wealth.

01:10Uh, now I see now that being the sack King would elevate his value at card

01:15shows and train this case for the hall of fame in Creek increases

01:18demand as a public speaker.

01:20I had no way of knowing it then.

01:21And I realized now the potential implications because football, uh,

01:27because football is far more business oriented than when him or I played.

01:31There was no malice on my part.

01:32Mark was a great player.

01:33My understanding is that he's a great guy and a fun teammate.

01:36Um, and a while back, he saw me at a card show, got his frustration off his chest.

01:42It's not the kind of moment that should be filmed or released.

01:44It was a private moment of frustration between two football,

01:47old football time warriors.

01:49I have a great deal of respect for Mark.

01:50I hope one day he joins me in the hall of fame.

01:52He's earned it.

01:52Look at his numbers.

01:53He clipped 20 sacks twice that 19 another year.

01:56He's definitely made an undeniable Mark on the game.

01:59I hope this country brings attention to how great Mark Gastineau was.

02:02He belongs in Canton.

02:03Merry Christmas, everyone.

02:04Brett well said, well said, where's the money, Brett?

02:10Well, somebody had something to say about this.

02:16Somebody dust off his Twitter.

02:19Oh, that person was named Torello.

02:20And oh, man, T O.

02:24He says, while you're clear in the air, clear the air on the

02:27misappropriation of the funds you were pocketing.

02:33Oh, T O.

02:34Wow.

02:36Like he's got his fastball on Twitter.

02:39Hey, but I don't think, think about this.

02:43You should be on TV.

02:44I don't think at the end of a football game, Brett Favre was thinking

02:51because Green Bay won that game, right?

02:54Yes.

02:54Right.

02:55I believe so.

02:56Yes.

02:56So why would he take unnecessary hit?

02:58It's the end of the game.

03:00And furthermore, you think that that dude was thinking, I'm

03:06going to screw Mark Gastineau.

03:09You think he knew who was the sack leader?

03:12That's kind of the thing.

03:13I think that he's realizing though, you know, he understands now,

03:18but I think it wasn't his intent.

03:20No, he said, I mean, he said, I kind of, you know, this is kind of a

03:23crazy thing to say, but I believe Brett Favre, please don't save that as a

03:28clip because I never want that for anything else, but Brett Favre, I think

03:35Brett Favre is probably just was trying to do Michael Strayhan a solid while

03:39not getting hurt and yeah, you don't think about, Oh, what are the

03:43ramifications of Mark Gastineau?

03:46Even though I think he was there for the game.

03:48Like, and I don't know, like put it this way.

03:53If I made that tour, what would you tell to get down?

03:58Right.

03:59You already won the game.

04:00Get down.

04:02Yeah.

04:02But is that, I don't know the exact situation, but was that a scenario

04:06in which he probably just could have need the ball and instead scrambled a

04:11little because it didn't seem like anyone was paying the end of the game though.

04:15Yeah.

04:16There's a kid.

04:16You just get down, take a knee.

04:18He's still good.

04:19He would still get credit for the sack.

04:22So if he took a knee and he touched him, he still gets credit for the sack.

04:26Okay.

04:27But what if like, he, like, it's the end of the game, right?

04:30You have the lead.

04:31A normal situation would call for a throwing it away.

04:34Well, no, we'll just a one-step drop me.

04:36Like before even any of you talking about, you talking about it, was it victory?

04:40No, it wasn't.

04:41It wasn't that late in the game.

04:43It wasn't that.

04:43Okay.

04:44Okay.

04:44Right.

04:44So then a play had to occur of some sort.

04:46I was correct.

04:47Correct.

04:48You couldn't throw it away.

04:49Clock stops for sure.

04:51For sure.

04:51Well then.

04:51Yeah.

04:52You know, you got the game in hand for sure.

04:55So this seemed like no one else was playing though.

04:58It was just like weird.

04:59Like, Oh, we're doing this.

05:00He's scrambling.

05:01Oh, he's laying down.

05:02Okay.

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