In other words, just the right spot for Terry Glenn.

He is in town to right a wrong, and to click with Favre, and to stick it to the New England Patriots. But he is not here to party, which is good because there aren't any parties here. Terry Glenn is about to be bored, and it couldn't have happened at a better time.

He is coming off of a fiasco of a season, a season in which he turned his back on the Patriots, and vice versa. The Patriots ended up in the Super Bowl, while Glenn ended up in a shrink's office, but it sounds as if order has finally been restored.

"Terry's in an excellent situation," says Glenn's old friend from Ohio State, Eddie George. "Because he's in Green Bay. And there's nothing really to do in Green Bay."

Small-town America is just what Terry Glenn needs. He needs to be focused, needs to be pampered, needs to be attended to, needs to be loved -- to make up for one of the most horrifying childhoods you've ever heard of. His mother was murdered when he was 13, and he was passed from house to house by his mother's sisters, and he internalized it for a long time -- although he does finally expound on it in the current issue of ESPN The Magazine.

Of course, it was never the Patriots' fault he had these problems. It was never the Patriots' fault he'd sulk and turn off his cell phone. It was never the Patriots' fault his hamstring was always hurt. But Bill Belichick is not generally the forgiving type, and neither are the media of greater Boston, and when Glenn was suspended last summer for violating the league's substance abuse policy, it was all but over. You can say they ran him out of town, or that he ran himself out of town, but, either way, the Patriots clearly stopped caring.

"The coaches before Belichick, they let him get away with all that stuff," says one of his former Patriots teammates, asking for anonymity. "But Belichick came in and kind of laid down the law. They gave him chances. Even Belichick really gave him a few ... I mean, during the season, guys were saying, 'What's wrong with him? Is he hurt again?' As long as he went in the game and did what he had to do, then there was really nothing said. But when he started bringing attention away from the team -- 'Why isn't he practicing, why does he say all this stuff on TV' -- that's when a lot of players would get mad, because he was really hurting us, too, because we could've used him. Even though we won the Super Bowl, he could've helped a lot. He's a good player. Can't take that away from him.

"He just should've kept his mouth shut and just played. If he was injured, just be injured. Don't go saying on TV, 'Oh, I'm hurt, but if I get my money I won't be hurt.' You don't say stuff like that. Guys were pissed. So no sympathy. You know how this league goes. We could've used him, but we did it without him."

But Green Bay thankfully is not New England. Green Bay does not have the Celtics and Bruins and Red Sox; Green Bay just has Favre and 44 of his closest friends.

"Let me tell you something about Green Bay," the tight end Keith Jackson once said. "If you're a black man in Green Bay, you're a God. Because if you're a black man in Green Bay, you're a Packer. Trust me, at every red light, the fans honked at me. I've never been honked at so many times in my life!"

So this is the road Terry Glenn is about to drive, with a quarterback and a town that unequivocally forgives him. Favre forgives him partly for selfish reasons (he wants another Super Bowl), but also because he knows a thing or two about a change of scenery (see Favre's career in Atlanta).

"I'd heard everything like everybody else," Favre says of Glenn's dicey reputation. "Of course, until he signed with us, I never paid any attention to it. I was just, 'Look at the mess they have in New England.' But when we got him, I was like, hey, this is an opportunity not only for him to start over, but an opportunity for us, the Packers, to take our game to a new level.

"And, hey, who hasn't come to the game with extra baggage? Pro athletes, in general, there's always been something. I don't know what went on with Terry and the Patriots, and don't care. That's in the past. And that's the way we have to approach it."

But don't be naïve -- the Packer organization has already taken a course in Terry Glenn 101:

HOW TO COACH HIM: Packer Coach and GM Mike Sherman has called Bill Parcells for some tips, and Parcells (who had Glenn when he caught 90 balls as a rookie) told Sherman to be mean and to be nice -- simultaneously. Whatever that means.

"Parcells, he was a master motivator," Glenn says now. "One time in practice, we were stretching the week of a Dallas game, and I forget what he called me. Something. He said, 'You ready for Deion this week? Because Deion gonna get all up in your chest. He gonna jam you all the way to the sideline. What you gonna do about that? You gonna let him do that?"

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He kept going on and on about what Deion was going to do to me. Keep in mind, I'm a rookie, and I used to watch Deion, too. I'm like, 'Woo woo, I've never played against the man.' I said, 'Man, you're really trying to push my buttons.' And he really pushed my buttons. I was hot in practice, I was real hot. I remember in practice that week trying to do everything I could. And when I got in that game, Deion didn't do me like that. It was nothing like that. At all. I was ready for Deion. It just motivated me. Just to call me out like that, being a rookie. Parcells knew what to do. He knew I was up for the challenge, and he made sure I was up for the challenge. He made everybody watch me. Like call me out in front of everybody like that. He put me on the spot. Something I'll never forget when he did it. And then you love him when he comes up to you after the game and tells you how well you did."

HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH HIM: Believe it or not, he says he's a homebody and that he never goes out -- especially after what happened last season. So that's why he doesn't mind that Green Bay is a dot of a town. "Well, I used to live in Walpole, and Green Bay is three times as big as Walpole," he says. On the other hand, just because he's a homebody doesn't mean he'll pick up the phone when he's there. He's a recluse, and he screens all his calls. So the Packers need to understand he's not purposely trying to avoid them -- like the Patriots thought he was.

"I do drift," Glenn says. "I do drift away sometimes. For some reason, I don't want to be bothered. Not that I don't want to be bothered by people, I just don't like being bothered with all the things that'll be going on. That people will say about you. It's just madness that's out there in this world. Because it was to the point last year that I couldn't even turn the channel without seeing my name on the channel. And I was like, 'Gawd, why are these people saying these things about me. They don't even know me.' They were making stuff up, somebody was giving them backdoor lying information. So it was a bad time over there in New England, a bad time."

HOW TO GET ON HIS GOOD SIDE: Let him grow his hair.

HOW TO THROW HIM THE FOOTBALL: High up in the air -- so he can run under it. "It's almost sickening to see a guy make running look that easy," Favre says.

HOW TO MAKE HIM WANT TO STICK AROUND GREEN BAY A WHILE: Honk at him when he's at the corner of Lombardi and Oneida. In fact, honk twice.

Tom Friend is a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine. E-mail him at tom.friend@espnmag.com.