And Now We Enter Endgame
"I've spent all my retirement equivocating at various podia"[But Favre conceded he might have a tough decision to make if, say, Green Bay called and asked him to come back because of team injuries.
"It would be hard to pass up, I guess," he said. " . . . It's only speculating. I think the world of that team. I had a lot of fun, not only this year, but over my career. Those guys I played with this past year, a lot of young guys, a lot of fun."]
[Undisclosed location]
Tramonto: First we must agree on terms.
Peter King: Name your price.
Tramonto: $25,000 Starbucks gift card.
King: Outrageous. I won't go above 15.
Tramonto: 25
King: 15
Tramonto: 25
King: 15
Tramonto: 25
King: 15
Tramonto: 15
King: 25
Tramonto: It is a deal.
[King smiles]
King: Excellent. I need you to eliminate this one.
[Hands over photo]
[Tramonto drags on cigarette]
Tramonto: I see.
Of what interest is this man to you?
King: Yours is not to ask why, yours is to do and make him die!
[Exhales]
He is no one. His life merely is an obstacle to bringing back my Bretty Boy.
But show him mercy. Make it fast. He is, after all, a white quarterback playing for the Packers. His sin is only bestowed upon him by circumstance. Perhaps in another life, he could have been worthy of my admiration.
Tramonto: It is done.
[King laughs girlishly and begins clapping frantically]
