This is a great column from the Star Tribune - if you're a Packers fan! I can't stop smiling!

Dalliance with self-centered QB leaves delusional Vikings with mess

This pleases me to no end

Fantastic article!!!

A couple excerpts-

"Favre should be ashamed of himself for toying with an entire organization."


"Favre was the Vikings' human lottery ticket, and the Vikings today feel like anyone who ever wasted their money on a long shot. The initial rush of adrenaline has been replaced by nausea and regret.

Thanks to Favre's belated and damaging decision, there are no winners in Minnesota."

"Only the Packers, and their fans, are winners today. They recognized Favre for the unrepentant flip- flopper he is, and pushed him out the door rather than spend every offseason fighting through Favre Fatigue. " (some did, some didn't )

"Favre could have retired from the Packers with pomp and circumstance. Instead, he left Green Bay in a pout, then left New York with Jets teammates calling him a diva before standing up the Vikings at the altar.

Favre probably feels that if he didn't play well this season, he could tarnish his legacy.

It's a little late for that. Brett Favre will be remembered, especially in Minnesota, as the most self-centered great quarterback in NFL history."



I should have just copied the whole article!!

Go read it, there's even more good stuff!!

Thanks, Jim Souhan, great article!!

Maybe Brett's first installment of that $20M Personal Services Contract
should be sent out right away!!!

Go Pack!!

As Chargers general manager A.J. Smith put it: “The only thing I’ve been thinking about throughout this whole situation is how smart Ted Thompson looks.”

C'mon Jim, you know TT is evil!!!
And now Smith is also a dummy!

Go Pack!!

Oh dear. I think I just swallowed my ears.


That was awesome.

I try to be gracious but what the hell!

NA NA NA NA NA NA NA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA <Eric Cartmen>

It's sad, but true.

Bye Bye Brent. You somehow turned a great reputation into dirt.


I keep hoping for the day that Ted brings a Lombardi Trophy to Green Bay. When that day comes, maybe the few remaining haters will be able to tell us how his bleep tastes

In the Eye of the beholder my friend

My favorites are:

"Jackson and Rosenfels will sheepishly take first-team snaps early in camp, knowing the Vikings preferred a 40-ish serial retiree coming off arm surgery over them."

and

"Viking players will have to face Jackson and Rosenfels in the locker room and huddle, knowing that the current quarterbacks know that the team's stars were texting love letters to Favre."

Of course there are so many more. I'm having fun forwarding this to all my Viking friends!

we also had the pleasure of Viking fans all across the internet raving about how Favre is the best QB ever

I'm sorry guys, but I think the article and the responses demonstrate a lack of class. The guy is one of the best ever. He didn't handle things very well over the past few years, but very few of us have any idea what it is like to be at the end of career that would relate to the NFL. Why is it necessary to pile on? Even as it relates to the Vikings, wouldn't we much rather just go out and beat them rather than feel joy about their off-season woes? Not that I've always followed this rule to a T, but I'm pretty sure somewhere along he line we've all heard "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." It's easy to pile on, especially given the anonymity of the internet, but what is the end game?

Very well said. Thank you.

I still think it's pretty darn funny. After all, it's the Vikings!

This is a very distasteful post. Haters? Isn't that a slang term that 15 year olds use now days?

I think that any real Packer fan would want the Green and Gold to take home the Lombardi trophy no matter what the circumstances were, no matter what their opinion was about the events that happened over the last few years or who the GM was. Sounds like you have your own agenda.

Agreed.

Well done!

I guess I can understand your point regarding piling on Favre, but why wouldn't I feel joy in the Viking's offseason woes? All offseason I've had to hear Vikings fans crow about enjoying our pain at having to watch Favre play for them. And now that he's screwed them over, I'm going to enjoy every minute of it. You're a better man than me if you can rise above it and feel pity for them. They knew what they were getting into. And if they didn't, they should have. Those that ignore history...

I can appreciate that it was difficult on Favre, but all the other greats managed to retire or not retire without holding their team hostage. But I won't rehash all the reasons I thought he behaved like a tool during this time. It is time to move on and I think in time I'll remember him fondly.

But for the Vikings part, I'm loving every minute of it. Sorry. If that makes me petty, so be it.

Very well said. This is all about having some fun at the Vikings expense. Whatever Favre's decision was, so be it. The Vikings could have given him a deadline but they didn't. It's not Favre's fault. Brett won't be suiting up in purple. Let the man retire in peace and give him credit for all the years he gave to the Packers. But as for the Vikings... I'm lovin' it too! It just adds more fuel to a fun rivalry.

They had good reason to. Fully half of Favre's most valuable plays of the 2000s came against the Vikings.