Two Days Later : Brett Favre has signed a deal with Minnesota Vikings.
It's August so that means there are two constants. One, it's hot as hell and I spend my afternoons praying for snow. And of course, it's time for Brett Favre to once again call his retirement off. He is becoming the adult Urckle. Just when we think he's gone, he appears. Which like Urckle was endearing in the begining. "oh look at the nerdy black kid! It's funny how much of an out cast he is! And he always shows up and bothers the Winslows! Now THAT is funny!"
But after two episodes of that, you're done. Which is exactly where I am (and I don't think I'm stretching by assuming most of America is there too) with the Brett Favre scenario. We've seen it before. We saw it last year when he went with the Jets. We saw it the previous three years before that with the Packers. This dude has been thinking about retiring for the better part of a decade now. MAKE UP YOUR MIND BRETT.
Shoot, even Jordan is like "this dude needs to hang it up".
Speaking of Jordan, atleast he let us breath. When Jordan talked "retirement" ( I put quotes around it because I believe Jordan was suspended for gambling, at least the first occassion) he atleast left for a year or two in between. Favre retires in March and is back with before the start of the previous year.
I don't get what the issue is here with him. He is old. His body is breaking down. His talk of retirement started after the 2005 season. Four full years and two actual retirements later and he is back again.
But why!?! What does he have to do? He holds every notable career passing record. He has a Superbowl. Whats left Brett? Why do you hate us?
It just doesn't make sense, for anyone. He is not the young chicken he was when his Shot Gun arm took Green Bay to back to back Superbowl appearances in the 90's. Shoot, the last time he took a team to the Superbowl was 11 seasons ago. And he was a veteran then.
His body is breaking down. The last retirement was primarily because he nearly threw his arm off last season. Who knows how healthy he is. Why come back unless you're able to keep up your production level? Last year he started off hot, but when the weather got cold his arm fell off and he finished with the most turnovers in the NFL.
Now if you're Brad Childress are you really willing to put your job on the line of a 39 year old who led the league with 22 interceptions last year? A 39 year old who is famous for making stupid ass decisions but having the big time arm to make up for it... only now he doesn't have that arm anymore.
Quick note to Mr. Childress... ask Eric Mangini how this story ends.
Bottom line, this is a gamble. And like all gambles it can end one of two ways. Either very bad, or very good. The Vikings have the talent to win a lot of games this year. So if Favre ends up able to be productive then the fine people of Minnesota are going to celebrating a good team this year.
But if he craps the bed like he did at the end of the year, then not only are the people of Minney going to be in a bad mood, but Mr. Childress is going to be updating his resume in January.
Time will tell. But for right now, lets move on to a new subject- Like Michael Vick, Dog lover.
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