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| 2nd January, 2006 - 3:10 pm |  ESPN - Just one day after completing the franchise's worst season since 1991, the Green Bay Packers on Monday dismissed head coach Mike Sherman.
The move, which was announced at a morning news conference, came despite the fact the Packers awarded Sherman a two-year contract extension worth about $6.4 million last summer. It also fuels speculation about the future of quarterback Brett Favre, who said several times during the season that he would not return in 2006 if Sherman was not retained by Packers officials.
"At the end of the day I felt like we needed to go in a different direction," Packers general manager Ted Thompson said at a news conference.
Green Bay concluded the '05 season with a victory over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday in a game that might have been Favre's swan song. There was also speculation it might have been the finale for Sherman as well, and Thompson apprised the head coach Monday morning that he would not return. [READ] |
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