Official Brett Favre Website Correspondance: Real or Fake?

[deeakay]

Wow!
Here is my original email to the Official Brett Favre Website:
(Date: Tue, December 21, 2010 11:17 am)
Hi guys.
In the past 4-5 weeks many collectors, including myself, have been receiving signed Brett Favre items back in the mail c/o the contact address your website gives us for directing our fanmail.
Many, many items are coming back signed in black & silver.
I received this one on Nov 27th.
I am wondering, along with many other thru the mail autograph collectors, why they are return postmarked from Madison, WI (not Eden Prairie, MN) and why they don't match the autographs sold on this website.
Will you please reply and comment about how these could be coming back from Madison, WI and also comment on their authenticity and maybe also on Brett's fanmail signing habits?
There is so much confusion and debate regarding these signed cards & photos being returned, so anything you or someone else could contribute would be a great, great help.
It's my opinion that these signatures are secretarial and not authentic.
I wish they were real but there are just several inconsistencies in the signature compared to what is offered here on the official Favre memorabilia website.

[deeakay]

(12/21/2010 08:57 PM)
David:

The pictures you sent were signed by Brett Favre. The post mark from Madison is because that is where the mail is sent back from. Visits are made to Brett in Eden Prairie. The person then returns to Waunakee like they have the last 14 years. Items are repackaged, stamped and mailed.

I'm sorry, I don't see the difference your talking about. you sent two pictures off what looks like a football card. None signed in silver like you mentioned? If you look in his store the signature on a 16 x 20 is much bigger the one on a 8 x 10. This allows him o make a larger loop like he prefers. Same difference on a full size helmet versus a mini helmet.

Also Brett has had numerous injuries of his hand this season. Yet I am confused I do not see what your talking about. I also am confused are collectors getting together and showing items? Or are they trying to sell items. We recently received an inquire from a Card Shop in Menominee Fall, Wisconsin. Your email and Jeff's Sports has us concerned that the good will Brett is doing may be for nothing. Most sports athletes seldom sign and many don't even bother to return. In 14 years we have never had a suggestion like this or inquiry not much less two and your suggestion that collectors are getting together.

It is true that Brett in his last season has spent more time on his fans then ever before. This includes visiting hospitals, nursing homes and terminally ill children like he did in your area last Friday. To answer your suggestion that he has a secretary doing this is simply silly. He never has and never will. He does have an assistant that does type out the letters but Brett signs them. Brett does not box up the items, type the letters, sort things or seal the envelopes. In the past a stamp has been used like the autograph policy informs could be the possibility. What you sent is not a stamp. Had Brett not signed these items and used the stamp it would have easily been noticed by all the collectors and not caused all this fuss your talking about. most use a stamp as Brett often has on fan mail.

Our reason for using Waunakee is we receive mail from the Green Bay Packers, New York Jets and Brett's Mississippi addresses. Its normal that they are all sent to one central place. Then processed back from the same place.

I hope this answers your concerns. With the season ending and mail increasing I suspect Brett will go back soon to not signing items sent in.

Sincerely:

[vikesfan40]

Well it sounds like they may be real from the way the e-mail was written so I am going to go with that until somebody shows me a letter from certified authentication company saying that there not.

[buffalobills]

hmmm... i guess its good you got to the point in your email, personally i wouldnt have used the word "collectors" only because it just doesnt sound right in this perticular case. It kinda throws up a red flag."FANS" might have sounded a bit better. Athletes dont really like to here about "collectors" getting ahold of there autographes if they arent getting paid for it. They try to sign for thier fans. Either way thanks for sharing and congrats, i guess the auto's everyone has been getting could be real!

[cyberer]

i see no reason not to take them at their word...

[ChrisR]

Sounds like these two emails will stop all possible future successes. Honestly I can't blame them if they do. For 88 cents you can't expect a COA or Hologram to come with it.
It just wouldn't make sense that after 20 years of sending a refusal w/ charity application or stamp he starts using a ghost. It's his last year, he knows he stunk up the league this season and might want to sweeten the bad taste his numerous "retirements" and horrible last season is leaving in peoples mouths.

[Riggs]

Sounds like these two emails will stop all possible future successes. Honestly I can't blame them if they do.

Hope your wrong.. still waiting on mine!!!

[LakersMC]

I also agree that they don't like the word "collectors". I think athletes don't mind signing for "fans", but lump "collectors" and "dealers" into the same category.

This quote from the reply kind of confirms that. And I'm guessing it's going to stop soon.

Your email and Jeff's Sports has us concerned that the good will Brett is doing may be for nothing.

I know your intentions were good; don't get me wrong.