The Homer in me loves it. For either the Queens or the Bears to get Favre in one of our jerseys and to take him to Lambeau would be worth blowing the season just for the sheer “Nyah nyah” factor. Whatever his salary is it will get paid for in jersey sales alone. We got your golden boy, suck it Packer fans.
But I’m not as much of a Homer as I once was. He’s done, actually he’s past done. Favre is just as addicted to playing football as he was to painkillers and booze. Someone needs to stage an intervention on his behalf and chain him to something for the duration of mini camp so that he’ll just finally fade away.
I think Favre has reached a point at which, on any given Sunday, he’s EQUALLY capable of throwing for 400 yards and 5 touchdowns, or for 75 yards and 4 picks.
That’s why I wouldn’t take him, if I were running the Vikings. The Vikings are ALREADY a playoff caliber team. Right now, they’d be better off with a steady veteran who’d be content to manage the game, to hand off to Adrian Peterson and not make big mistakes.
They need a Ravens-era Trent Dilfer, in other words.
Can’t this douche bag please just go away? Excepting the good year he had two years ago, this guy has been mediocre to bad since about 2003, his off season grand standing every year has become theater of the absurd, and media hacks like Peter King have been so far up this guy’s ass they should be collecting a salary as his PR man. Please Brett, fucking retire and stay retired.
Come on! He has so much fun out there. Look at him, he’s like a little kid. Oh, wait. He just threw it to a 5’7 WR in quadruple coverage? He’s a gunslinger baby! Take the good with the bad. Look at that cute little shovel pass he just did! No one has ever done that before. Ever! At least, they never did it having as much fun. Because, ya know, this is just a job to everyone else in the league.
I think he could easily average 400 yards & 5 TDs a game. The only issue would be how many of those yards & TDs are achieved by his team, vs. the opponents’.
Brett did have arm surgery, and retired because of the arm strength issue. But I read somewhere he hired a personal trainer before this story came out so I knew something was up.
Personally, I think he always wanted to play for the Vikings, just so he could stick it to the Packers for pushing him aside. Maybe he’ll get his wish.
Does any Viking fan or Packer fan have any idea of his career stats in the dome in Minnesota? For some reason, I seem to recall it being pretty unimpressive.
One wonders if John Madden will make a comeback, too. Somebody has to resurrect the “riverboat gambler” analogy. Which reminds me that a lot of announcers seemed to be mixing up Bret Favre and Bret Maverick toward the end of Favre’s career.
[url=http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/nwsltr/sports/fromthe50/stories/092607dnspofromthe50.109a00f28.html. According to the article, he sucked big time in the 90’s in the dome, but got better at the trun of the century.
Again, according to the article, his career stats at the Metrodome are:
I was never a huge Favre fan, even when he WAS one of the best quarterbacks in the game.
Regardless, if the man still has the itch to play, I can’t fault him for that. And there certainly aren’t 32 better quarterbacks in the NFL, so he’s certainly good enough to be a starter somewhere.
I just don’t see him as an elite quarterback any more, and I can’t justify treating him or paying him as if he still were one.
If the Vikings have concluded that Favre is better than the guys they have, well, I can see that. But I CAN’T see Favre as the magical missing ingredient that will take the Vikings to the Super Bowl.
It’s still early. Favre could still change his mind two or three more times before training camp.
In all seriousness, on a local radio show here, they were saying the rumor is that the Vikings wanted Favre to get surgery on his arm, and Favre didn’t want to do it.
