# Favre tells Vikings he's not coming back **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 3, 2010, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012 "2010-08-03T15:05:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012/61 "2010-08-04T20:01:39Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > The Vikings are like Forrest Gump and Favre is like Jenny. Ha ha ha ha ha. I’m totally stealing that. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012/62 "2010-08-04T20:24:11Z")
[Interesting story](http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/08/03/vikings-have-little-choice-when-dealing-favre/) on the Vikings really needing to continue to do well. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012/63 "2010-08-04T22:25:59Z")
> [@unwashed\_brain](#): > > All I care about is the 2-4\* wins he’ll add to our season total if he’s our QB. > > \*srsly scientific opinion Do you care about the 3 turnovers\* that helped cost your team a shot at the Super Bowl? \*indicates actual number of turnovers in NFC title game. ---
**Author:** ![unwashed\_brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012/64 "2010-08-04T22:48:06Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Do you care about the 3 turnovers\* that helped cost your team a shot at the Super Bowl? > > \*indicates actual number of turnovers in NFC title game. I care about the statistical improbability of us trouncing the NFC North and getting to that game without Favre. In other words, I’d rather get to the game and lose than watch it on TV without my team in it (e.g., Bears and Packers fans). It was an awesome year, all things considered. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012/65 "2010-08-05T01:17:43Z")
Dear Minnesota fans: Gimme a break. You guys got him for free because he wanted to be a dick to GB. He retired to break his contract with the Jets, screwed them over, and then joined the vikings. The Jets had to trade for him, thus screwing themselves. All trades in the NFL is a matter of give and take to maintain some balance of power between teams. Look what happened to the NBA when the Lakers, Celtics, and Miami piled up the superstars without any compensation to other teams. Minnesota is a team built for the Superbowl, that is true. However, they didn’t get there legitimately nor fairly. They got a Superbowl quarterback for free, and now you can’t complain that he screwed you over royally just like how he screwed the Jets (although at least the Vikings got him for 2 years, the jets only got him for 1.) ---
**Author:** ![moldybread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@moldybread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moldybread)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012/66 "2010-08-05T18:34:08Z")
I really would like to see him return for the Vikes game on august 9th. Rematch with the Saints!!! Should be a game of epic proportions!! well imo. Also, Bobby Mcray is back this year and wants payback for the fine he got. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012/67 "2010-08-17T23:27:43Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > A week or so ago our local sports-talk radio station started a contest to pick what day Favre will show up at a team practice. I picked 8/23. I still stand by that pick. Dammit! He’s not supposed to be here till Monday! ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012/68 "2010-08-18T18:46:46Z")
[HE"S BAAAA-AAAAACK!](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/damon_hack/08/17/favre.vikings/index.html?xid=cnnbin&hpt=Sbin) ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012/69 "2010-08-18T18:50:27Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > > [@Hampshire](#): > > > > A week or so ago our local sports-talk radio station started a contest to pick what day Favre will show up at a team practice. I picked 8/23. I still stand by that pick. > > Dammit! He’s not supposed to be here till Monday! Hey, it’s Brett. He could still retire and unretire again before monday. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012/70 "2010-08-18T18:56:27Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > > [@Hampshire](#): > > > > Dammit! He’s not supposed to be here till Monday! > > Hey, it’s Brett. He could still retire and unretire again before monday. I am not a VIking fan and the Favre saga is tiring, but some folks whining about how the Vikings have no respect or look despearate or some other nonsense is total idiocy and irrelevant, especially if he does as is hoped and eexpected. If I was a VIking fan I would be concerned about that ankle, we all know how tough Favre is, but he is 41 and it just has to catch up at some point. I would put the odds of his consecutive game streak ending this season at about 50/50. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012/71 "2010-08-18T19:00:05Z")
I am a Vikings fan and I’m going to pretend you didn’t say anything about the streak. Please don’t jinx us. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012/72 "2010-08-18T19:21:53Z")
Death of Rats: > [@](#): > > I think his plan is to retire and then sign a big contract with Chicago to continue the “Rub his Ass in the Packers Fans Faces by Playing for Hated Rivals Tour” Are the Jets even on Packers fans’ radar at all? One rival does not a “tour” make. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012/73 "2010-08-18T19:26:09Z")
He’s baaaa-aaaccckkkkkk. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012/74 "2010-08-18T20:45:48Z")
Brad Childress is Brett Farve’s bottom boy and everybody knows it. I’m not a Farve hater at all (my cousin went to high school with him), but geez, this is ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012/75 "2010-08-18T21:42:05Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > Brad Childress is Brett Farve’s bottom boy and everybody knows it. I’m not a Farve hater at all (my cousin went to high school with him), but geez, this is ridiculous. I’m glad I didn’t take up a co-workers offer to take a shot every time Farve got choked up during his press conference. I’d be seriously wasted. I really don’t care one way or another. I’ll go to a game or two, watch the Packers/Vikes games with the family. I just am so tired of the second coming of God. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012/76 "2010-08-19T02:18:09Z")
Brett Farve is the only true “Maverick” allowed in the USA. When he quits his job, he’ll come back and finish it up the next year. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012/77 "2010-08-19T02:52:40Z")
Favre said in his press conference today that this is really, really, truly his last season for reals and that there won’t be any drama next year. ---
**Author:** ![straight\_man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straight_man/32/3027_2.png) [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012/78 "2010-08-19T03:03:25Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Favre said in his press conference today that this is really, really, truly his last season for reals and that there won’t be any drama next year. …and if you believe that, perhaps you should change your username to “Diogenes the Naïf”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012/79 "2010-08-19T03:18:14Z")
It has to be true sometime. ---
**Author:** ![straight\_man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straight_man/32/3027_2.png) [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012/80 "2010-08-19T03:21:03Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > It has to be true sometime. Personally, I’m betting on it happening when he’s _actually_ too injured to play. Or he’ll get stoned by a crowd of angry fans or something. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favre-tells-vikings-hes-not-coming-back/549012.md?page=5)