brett has turned himself into a laughingstock, with some help from the Vikes of course, who felt the need to dump way too much money on an over-the-hill injured legend who can't call it quits.for 2 years no less.And that's a league WITH a salary cap.Ha.
I mean, what if he plays just flat-out terrible? Who's gonna bench him? I really see very little upside for the Vikes here. If they needed a QB that badly, they could have traded for an able-bodied Cutler.This may set them back a couple of years.
More NFL garbage.The league with parody.

Jim

He’s 40 and missed camp! Yeah he shouldn’t have flipped flopped and used the offseason to get in game shape but I think you have to wait to rip him until the regular season

Yeesh, what a horrible line. I knew Farve didn't have anything left in him. ESPN made him out to be such a big star, he should be able to walk out there without practicing and at least throw an interception! I mean, he went SEVEN throws without a single INT! I'm severely disappointed. Farve may have nothing left in the tank.

jim66, You're comment reeks of "ageism." You ask what if he plays "just flat-out terrible." Okay, I don't thinks that's going to happen, but if it does, I"ll post another comment acknowledging that I was wrong to assume the future Hall-of-Famer still had something in left in the tank.

On the other hand, what if the surgery was all he need to rejuvenate both arm and career? What if he's still able to cowboy up on Sundays? What if he plays just flat-out awesome, instead of awful?

If so, I hope you will post here to say that you were too quick with the "over-the-hill" knock. I really believe the guy can play and play well, Jim, but we'll see. I'm not going to overreact regardless of what he does early in the seaon, good or bad.

What I can't understand is why you and so many others are hostile even to the idea of him even trying to play. He's earned the right to suit up as long as he wants and as long as a team wants to sign him.

Sorry Kn.I just sent brett a box of chocolates wishing him well. I guess I let my -I'm really tired of the Brett Favre act thing get to me. I guess I stand alone.
I'm not hostile to him playing. I think it's great he wants to compete and might be able. I'm just tired of his whole act. Now it's -my daughter was crying and blahblahblah.
I guess I shouldn't mix his retirement soap opera with his football. I'll be sure to acknowledge his greatness every Monday regardless of his quality of play.
Regards,Jim

As a frequent visitor to the O's blogging I usually refrain from the football blogging here as I root for the team to the North and don't enjoy aggitating folks, but let me make one thing VERY CLEAR. Brett Farve has been the greatest QB I've ever enjoyed watching in 40+ years. This includes Sonny Jurgesen or Johnny Unitas. So for all you Brett bashers, wait until the end of the year and I'm pretty certain his statistics at 40 will exceed those of my Redskins QB and those of the run oriented Ravens!

I understand that the Vikings were the only team that was looking at Favre, but why did he have to go THERE of all places. Anyone ever think that they might of taken him just to rub it in Green Bay's face?

I agree with you Peter, Favre is a diva. Here's hoping the Packers beat the snot out of him and the Vikings.

As a frequent visitor to the O's blogging I usually refrain from the football blogging here as I root for the team to the North and don't enjoy aggitating folks, but let me make one thing VERY CLEAR. Brett Farve has been the greatest QB I've ever enjoyed watching in 40+ years. This includes Sonny Jurgesen or Johnny Unitas. So for all you Brett bashers, wait until the end of the year and I'm pretty certain his statistics at 40 will exceed those of my Redskins QB and those of the run oriented Ravens!

Posted by: Keith Rowe | August 22, 2009 7:00 AM

You obviously must have gone to the bathroom every time Unitas had the ball. Favre couldn't hold Johnny U's jockstrap. He sure made a champion of the Jets didn't he? Favre won't even finish the season and then he'll cry and retire, then a month later make yet another "comeback" and play for some other team stupid enough to sign him for the publicity. Favre is a solipsistic diva. Nothing more.

What do Brett Favre and Trent Dilfer have in common? They both have ONE Super Bowl ring. The difference? Favre is a diva.

I am not a big favre fan. I believe he is the most overrated QB since Namath. That said he was still a great player. To criticize him for not taking the Jets to the Super Bowl is like criticizing Unitas for not taking the Chargers to the Super Bowl.

My problem with Favre at this point is that he is all about himself after a career spent cultivating a "good ole boy, team player image that was crap from the beginning. He has been crappy to his backups all his career. He is trashing the Pack management for finally getting tired of paying a backup starters money because their diva starter plays games every offseason. Favre has the right to be as wishy washy as Charlie Brown and we all know it is every diva's right to change her mind. But the Pack drafted Rogers and paid him starter money because Favre was hinting about retirement. The Pack made him a very rich man, put up with his act every offseason and Packer fans made him one of the most admired and adored players in the league so Brett getting his nose out of joint over the perceived slights is insulting. Favre took his carefully crafted image and proved it was all bull. There might be no "I" in team but again we are reminded there sure is an "M" and an "E". It has come to the point where I hope an injury puts an end to this circus. He has squandered all the respect and good will a long career had garnered in my opinion.

You spelled "Favre" wrong in the title, just saying...

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Pete's reply: Yes, I did. Thanks for catching it.

Hey Factless,

Talk about sleeping through the last 18 years! I believe everywhere you ONCE saw Johnny Unitas name in the season or career record book, now stands the name Brett Farve! And oh by the way I seem to recall Johnny U, riding the pine for the Chargers his last year in the league! HELLO

This has nothing to do with liking or disliking the guy, he's been great! His offseason antics is what everyone despises about him, but for 3 days of practice, he's still better than 60% of the QBs in the league at 40!

You are off base on this post Keith. Unitas was supplanted in each of the big four passing records by Fran Tarkenton and I doubt anyone in Tarkenton's family would argue he is better than Unitas so this is just another example of numbers thrown around without depth or perspective. The rules of the game have been changed to promote the QB and passing game, so the stats dont equate from that era to this one.

Seeing I couldn't post this at that lame Washington Post site - without paying for a/some stupid paper subscription or whatever - as to there being no lame Comment Box "Preview & Post icons" that were active (how lame was that Mr Sean McCann TWIT?) - I thought I'd just post it here instead as it pertains to the same subject.

If Sean McCann is reading this then you know where to blow it out your azz as it were!

To: Sean McCann

Beat Writer Sean McCann
Former Philadelphia Eagles beat writer for Gannett

Who wrote - "Favre Dupes Us Again!"

Hey Sean McCann

You - Sean McCann - obviously know NOTHING about *The Man - The Myth - The Legend* they call Brett Favre!!

It's quite obvious from your post - that's a given!

I - on the other hand - have just won yet another $$$$ bet from my "loser" buddy Kevin (who is a diehard Vikqueen fan btw), and who lost a prior $100 bet with me some years ago now - as to the Viks supposedly going "all the way" including a so-called guaranteed Super Bowl win - so they bragged even before the NFC Championship game with the Falcons, which btw the Viks hosted at home (being top-seeded with a 15-1 record I might add btw) - on their turf - in that now infamous Metrodoom) - only to see Atlanta come from behind and "kick" their butts royally in OT - at home nonetheless!! Get it? Kick? Only sadly to see Atlanta get their butts kicked by the lowly Denver Horsechits, which I hate with a passion! Sound familiar? - remember the season? - remember the game?

I SURE DO!!!

Almost as hilarious as the time the Viks Semi Trucking down a TON OF SNOW to an away game thinking it was going to give them some kind of psychological edge in winning. It didn't as usual - as they lost that game just as well as they lost 4 SB bids over the years. I'm still ROTFLMAO over that LOAD OF SNOW JOB joke! There's hype and then again there's hype! That game is a bit of Trivial Pursuit stumper - so let's see if you can figure it out as to which one it was and when it was played? Give up yet?

Well - not to make you look like the ONLY FOOL out there that actually was fooled, or duped as you so put it (as by your own "US" wording there in your little nonsense blog) - I can honestly say I wasn't fooled, nor duped, nor even shortchanged as it were by Brett signing with the Viks after that news tidbit was first "leaked".

After all - his rotator tear surgery was somewhat kept under wraps, and for good reason! Everything Brett does is done very methodically and for good reason - that is - if you truly follow WHAT HE DOES and NOT WHAT HE SAYS, which btw I have done for years since he was first and foremost the only driving force behind the Packers for so many years.

Brett never belonged in the AFC to begin with - nonetheless the lowly Jets - he knew it, I knew it, the world knew it, and it was a given that he wouldn't be in a Jets jersey after last season, much less any other AFC team's jersey as well.

The NFC and GB were and still are his home, and GB's 2 upper mgt retards blew it big time by screwing him over by first forcing him out, and then ridiculously going with Rodgers - who is mediocre at best. Does Grossman and the Bears come to mind here? It should!

If Brett hadn't been so F'd over two seasons ago by those 2 retards in GB's upper mgt office - the way he was all season long his last year in GB - chances are he would have easily won that playoff game against the haphazard arm of Eli (Oreo cookie boy) Manning and the "haphazard at best" Giants, AND gone on to beat the worthless Pathetics there afterwards. Mentally exhausted - you bet he was! BUT - it wasn't from playing the game of football - it was from the 2 Packer mgt retards upstairs that kept beating him up mentally! A guy can only take so much!

I figured it this way - way before last season's end - that if Brett went anywhere it would be back to the NFC Falcons, where he was first acquired from to begin with - by none other then the genius of Ron Wolf. Seeings all that "dog fighting" flack about Vick put an end to that thought right there, as to what Vick did to the Falcons team as a whole, and at that point I pretty much had given up on that Falcons thought totally by early on 2009. For that matter way before the 2008 season even began. That much was a given.

There was NO WAY Brett would ever play for the Bears or the Lions, much less the retarded Bucs (another bet I surely would have won as well), and seeings that there is still a score to settle with a couple of idiots/fools in GB's upper mgt office it was a sure bet that if the door was cracked open even the slightest in Minn that Brett would be there - knowing Brett like I do.

That is why I bet my buddy Kevin $1,000 that Favre would NOT stay in retirement, and that he would be in an NFC Vik uniform before going to any other NFL team. He HAD an old score to settle - still does - and that's regardless of what his agent might be saying, or even what the Vik upper mgt might be saying - as well as the football media trying to downplay that part as well - as to his having no supposed grudge to settle with GB. Well folks - truth is - HE DOES! Game time against GB will prove that part. Watch the game!

Preseason is just that - preseason! Who is going to risk early injury just to go 4-0, and for what? Warm-up games? I doubt it.

Kevin took the bait and the bet, and as usual he ate it yet one more time, as Kevin swore that Brett would never wear a Vik jersey. Boy was he ever wrong!

Remember one thing about Brett - NEVER SAY NEVER!

You heard it here….

Oh - and btw - for all you supposed Brett Favre fans out there that constantly and purposely misspell his last name (just like this lame poster Peter Schmuck here had done as well) saying that you are such a great fan of his blah blah blah to no end - WELL EAT CHIT - as all you are is a pack of LIARS no doubt from the loser PATHETICS - COWGIRLS - DENVER HORSECHITS - or the SAN F*G SISSY 40 WHINERS!

As for Peter Schmuck - "Better to keep your mouth shut just looking stupid saying nothing, than to open it and removing all doubt!"