Will Brett Favre play with the Minnesota Vikings or not?
Apparently, they are now imposing some sort of a deadline for exactly that.
With still more than a few months left before the brand new 2009 NFL football season kicks off, the Minnesota Vikings want to determine whether they’ll be having the 39-year-old Brett Favre for this campaign or not.
You read it, the Minnesota Vikings are tired of waiting and so are we. (Unless you’re a Bears fan and could care less what Favre or the Vikings do with their time…) It turns out that Vikings head coach Brad Childress has imposed a deadline this week for Brett Favre to decide whether he’ll be the team’s quarterback or not.
You read it, Brad Childress is actually imposing some sort of a deadline on Brett Favre. The Vikings want Favre so bad that they want to sign him now before he decides to retire again (prematurely…) and return with some other team next season.
The problem is, Favre is reluctant to commit playing a 19th NFL season without first being more confident that the arthroscopic surgery done on his throwing shoulder recently has succeeded in eliminating all that shit related to the torn biceps tendon.
Favre wants to make sure that his shoulder is healthy before jumping into another season. Of course, it is understandable that the Vikings want to make sure that Favre’s shoulder is at 100 percent as well. They are, after all, willing to pay the guy for him to be on the field and not in some disabled list.
The Green Bay Packers initially wanted Favre to be anywhere but Minnesota. You see, the Packers consider the Vikings their main rivals in the NFC North. (Aside from the Bears of course…) When the Packers dealt Favre to the Jets last season, they had this agreement with the Jets that Green Bay will be compensated with THREE first-round draft picks if Favre was dealt by the Jets to the Vikings.
Apparently, the Vikings wanted Favre already when the guy was still in Green Bay and the Packers knew that. Unfortunately for them, the New York Jets didn’t have to do anything.
Let’s see if Favre makes the day the Packers have been dreading the most, a reality.
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June 9th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Brett Favre has been playing football for years now and I think he needs to put up the helmet and retire.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:00 am
I am a vikings fan and like all fans would like childress to get a quarterback on the field farve was good! is he still and is there no other quarterbacks out there that minasota can get? and if farve is loyal
to greenbay why would he even consider it I guess we will see?