You Must Be Favre’n Kidding Me
August 19, 2009 by GB Bongiovanni
Filed under Brett Favre, Football, Minnesota Vikings, nfl, Opinion, Uncategorized
A strange sense of déjà vu surrounds my television set when I turn on ESPN. The last time this happened I found it somewhat interesting and intriguing. Favre couldn’t make up his mind, the Packers wanted to move on, and Favre signed with the Jets.
This time I am upset. Not just upset, but enraged by this signing of Favre to the Vikings.
No, not just because he has completely ruined my new Madden season but because this has become a joke. Instead of being remembered as the hall of fame quarterback he is, Favre will be remembered as a punch line.
If I were a close friend of Brett Favre’s I would have one piece of advice for the 40-year-old man: Make up your mind and stick with what you say.
If Favre wins the Vikings a Super Bowl he might as well run for mayor or governor of Minnesota because he has the bull shit down to a tee. Forget running in Green Bay as he may have a little problem there.
In a press conference Favre stated that, “A true Packers fan would understand.”
I think one fan said it best: “A true Packers player would understand.”
Taking a look at the football sense of things here, the Vikings made a great move. They were a team who was on the edge looking inside the playoff race. They had no faith in either quarterback on the roster and needed something to spark the offense.
Enter Brett Favre into the purple and gold and instantly you are now a team on the inside. How much on the inside is a good question, but they are much better with Favre than with what they had.
From an operational standpoint it was brilliant as the signing sparked ticket sales within a 24 hour period and jersey sales will be exceptional. Favre will well be worth the $25M contract with the popularity and exposure that the Vikings have.
Some may say Favre is done and if he plays like he did to end the season with the Jets, the Vikings are in trouble, but there was no Adrian Peterson on the Jets. By handing the ball off and having a solid ground game the Vikings should be able to preserve Favre’s arm for the duration of the season.
The problem isn’t that Brett Favre is wearing No. 4 in Minnesota. Nor is the problem that Favre, maybe just maybe, might be trying to get back at the Packers.
The real problem lies in the way that this whole situation has been handled. It’s a damn media circus the same way it was last year.
Sure, blame the media, blame ESPN, and blame me for writing this damn article…that’s fine. I’m placing the blame where it is deserved: on Brett Favre.
A once dominant quarterback on the Green Bay Packers, I remember Brett Favre as someone I feared to play against (obviously not a Packers, Vikings, or Jets fan here).
No. 4 was willing to take a chance and sometimes made the impossible happen. Watching him throw passes, it was amazing how the wide receivers held on to the ball as it looked like it was traveling over 100 miles an hour.
Fast forward to 2009 and now I remember Favre as the one who lied over and over to the public, media, and to numerous teams.
I really could care less what Favre does this season, but I know that if I have to listen to this crap again next year, we need to ban him from the league or force him to silence for the offseason.
Two years is plenty enough of listening to the indecisiveness and lies of playing or not playing. In this writer’s opinion, Favre has done nothing up to this point other than ruin his “Hall Of Fame” image, and the only thing that would reverse that is another Super Bowl win.
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