Just heard on ESPN that Jay Glazer from FOX said he spoke to unnamed Vikings players who told him after the 1st pre-season game that Favre will be with the Vikings by the 3rd pre-season game. They said it's a done deal already. HAHAH! Favre just doesn't stop. IDK what goes through his mind. Does he just want the extra attention? Instead of making his pre-season debut in week 1 he makes it in week 3 so everyone if completely focused on his debut and not Sanchez, Stafford, or any of the new new QB's on new teams? i've had enough of favre.
I'm sure everyone that bitches about Favres indecision knows exactly what it's like to be a once great professional athlete at the end of there career. You have all been in his shoes - you know it's a real easy decision. Get off his balls.
It would make sense. He would miss most of camp like last year but what I hear he really wants to do is come back in the middle of the year ala Clemens did with the Yankees. Then he would be comfortable he could finish the year healthy.
I may not ever have experienced it, but I have been able to sit back and watch thousands of professional athletes do it in my lifetime without a hitch. He's not that fuckin' special. Shit or get off the pot.
I don't understand why it bothers people. Big deal, he changed his mind. He's having a hard time hanging up the cleats. It's happened with great athletes before and it will happen again. Why would someone let someone elses indecision bother them?
The link is up on fox now. http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/9922912/The-vibe-at-Vikings-camp:-Favre-could-come-back
I don't think it's his indecision, but more his constant indecision. "I may come back." "I'm going to stay retired." "Who knows, I may come back if a team needs me." "No, I'm staying retired". Shit like that gets really annoying.
But why? If you haven't learned to take comments like that from Favre with a grain of salt by now then I don't know what to tell ya. He's having a hard time hanging up the cleats. It's probably going to take a severe injury or him getting benched for him to finally give it up.
lol who cares. Let Favre do what he wants. At the end of the day teams are interested in him and are willing to sign him. If the guy wants to play and teams are interested let him do what he wants. It doesnt effect the Jets anymore.
This just cements that he cares little about any team or franchise and ONLY cares about his individual wants and needs. This is the most grotesque example of "I'm bigger than the team, the league and everyone in it." Why does it matter? It matters because he's part of a larger team and unit and should go through all of the blood, sweat and tears like all of his "teammates" are doing. He's the most selfish POS athlete I've ever seen and I've seen a ton in my day. I hope it takes this loser many more than 5 years to make the HOF. He's making a mockery of the NFL with this BS.
Honestly, unless I'm a Packers fan or Vikings fan, I couldn't care less. The only person on this board it should affect, really, is puddnhead. It shouldn't affect any of the Jets fans. He was here for one season, it didn't work out, and now he gets to string another team along. He hasn't made a mockery of the NFL, only of himself, the media outlets that fawn over him, and maybe the Vikings. I like the Vikings, I'd like to see them do well this season, and I hope if he comes back he can be that final missing piece. To be honest, though, I don't know of anyone who looks down on the NFL because of this situation.
Honestly I do just because I'm a fan of the NFL. When someone like him keeps doing this it sends a really poor message to future players coming into the league regardless of what team they're going to. It also tells me that he could care less about the team and more about "Me, me , me." If he wanted to come back this year in March I would have had little problem with it. Yet, it's the way he has gone about coming back which is so uncalled for. If you want to come back, you go through training camp, you participate in offseason activities and you help that team build its fanbase by being visible in that community. Not to mention all of the planning a team makes around its QB in the offseason. New player acquisitions, personnel depth, etc. Prime example is the Packers going into last season. Like I said, it's his right to come back if he goes about it the right way. Yet when you want to come back AFTER saying you're retired for the 3rd time in as many seasons, make a team wait months and months, prolong it thru training camp and so on, it says a lot about your lack of integrity and moreso about your selfish desires. This isn't as simple as changing his mind. It's way past that point. It's a team sport and he's not acting like a good teammate wherever he ends up this season. I do not want to see him play in the league ever again and if he does, I hope he gets wishboned in the first regular season game.
I was going to give you a measured response. Then I read this last part. Hoping for a major injury to someone because you don't think he's a good teammate? That's just great.
Ok wishing injury on him is a little harsh I agree. However so is his hijacking a team's planning, future planning, fans' expectations and the example it sets for future players in a similar position. There's no excuse for his adolescent and ultra selfish behavior 19 years into his career.
I have always liked Brett Favre and I enjoyed having him QB for the Jets until everything fell apart... but he brings the criticism on himself. He orchestrates the Favre Circus every single offseason and he'll keep doing it to stay relevant because it makes him money and I guess it makes him feel important to keep people hanging on his every word.
Trust me I don't like the way Favre has handled himself recently, but are the Vikings not to blame for being interested in him? You can't blame Favre for hijacking a team when the interest is mutual
