{"id":1340,"date":"2008-03-06T12:46:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T12:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/brett-favre-press-conference-a-class-act-pr-touchdown\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T15:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T15:07:16","slug":"brett-favre-press-conference-a-class-act-pr-touchdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/public-relations\/brett-favre-press-conference-a-class-act-pr-touchdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Favre press conference a class act & PR touchdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BrettHere’s what Publicity Hounds can learn from retiring Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre’s press conference today:<\/p>\n

—Speak from the\u00a0 heart.<\/strong>\u00a0Trying hard to fight back tears,\u00a0Favre\u00a0sobbed for several minutes\u00a0and held nothing back while explaining why he decided to leave (\u201cI know I can play but I know I don’t want to”),\u00a0what he’ll do next (\u201cnothing”) and how he doesn’t plan to hang around and dole out advice to the team (\u201cI’m not an expert”).<\/p>\n

—Tell the truth.<\/strong> He said he’ll questions himself about whether he made the right decision.<\/p>\n

—Address\u00a0rumors.<\/strong> Rumors have been\u00a0flying the last few days that he \u00a0left because he was angry at the way the Packers treated him this year and that they haven’t encouraged\u00a0him to return for another year. Favre addressed them, denied them, and said his response was \u201cfrom the heart.”<\/p>\n

—Don’t run for cover afterward.<\/strong> He took and answered dozens of questions from reporters.<\/p>\n

—Look genuine.<\/strong>\u00a0He said he thought about wearing a suit and shaving. Instead, he showed up unshaven, in jeans and an\u00a0untucked shirt.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWhat you see is what you get. ”<\/p>\n

—Don’t say \u201cno comment.”<\/strong>\u00a0One reporter asked him\u00a0why fans have embraced him and why they like him so much.\u00a0A perfect chance to answer “no comment.” Instead, he said, “Because I’m just like them, except I play professional football.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

—Don’t be afraid to say \u201cI don’t know.”<\/strong>\u00a0He said he doesn’t know what the future holds and has no concrete plans about what he wants to do.<\/p>\n

Brett Favre is a\u00a0class act, and he scored a PR touchdown.<\/p>\n

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Here’s what Publicity Hounds can learn from retiring Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre’s press conference today: —Speak from the\u00a0 heart.\u00a0Trying hard to fight back tears,\u00a0Favre\u00a0sobbed for several minutes\u00a0and held nothing back while explaining why he decided to leave (\u201cI know I can play but I know I don’t want to”),\u00a0what he’ll do next (\u201cnothing”) and\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":0,"wds_primary_category":606,"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[632],"class_list":{"0":"post-1340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-public-relations","7":"tag-press-conferences","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41610,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/41610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}