And the Brett Favre saga begins again lol

[Monkeydad]

I don't really blame Brett for this annual circus, he makes his decision when he does. It's the media led by ESPN who has to start hourly Brett Favre updates and discussions for 4 months nonstop.

I'm sure he's not the only older player who takes time to make the decision to come back any given year...but he's the only one we have to hear about day after day after day.

I like the fact he can mock the whole situation on Sear's commercials.



Seriously, I get sick of hearing the lead story every hour being "will he play or not!?!?"

There are far better stories they could be wasting their time on.

[GusFrerotte]

Originally Posted by Buster

I don't really blame Brett for this annual circus, he makes his decision when he does. It's the media led by ESPN who has to start hourly Brett Favre updates and discussions for 4 months nonstop.

I'm sure he's not the only older player who takes time to make the decision to come back any given year...but he's the only one we have to hear about day after day after day.

I like the fact he can mock the whole situation on Sear's commercials.



Seriously, I get sick of hearing the lead story every hour being "will he play or not!?!?"

There are far better stories they could be wasting their time on.

The job of mass media is to entertain and keep you focused on trivial crap while real serious issues/problems are pushed back into obscurity. Fact is the 24/7 news/sports cycle is to blame. How much new crap can these stations put out every day, every hour? Not too much, thus they make their own news by "pushing" stories on their viewers.

[murphy196]

They better hope he shows since they passed on Clausen multiple times. There is no doubt in my mind that he will be back. In my opinion he should've retired after last year because unless they win the Super Bowl this year it will be a disappointment.

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by murphy196

They better hope he shows since they passed on Clausen multiple times. There is no doubt in my mind that he will be back. In my opinion he should've retired after last year because unless they win the Super Bowl this year it will be a disappointment.

Agreed, he can't end his career like that. He can obviously still play at a high level as one of the best QBs in the league.

Of course, he just has to hope that another season won't end even worse than the last one.

[SmootSmack]

Damnit, we could have traded Jason Campbell to the Vikings for Adrian Peterson, Percy Harvin, and Steve Hutchinson (well...we probably would have needed to throw Reed Doughty in to make it fair)

Quick, someone figure out how to get Campbell back and start a thread on this possibility!

[mlmdub130]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Damnit, we could have traded Jason Campbell to the Vikings for Adrian Peterson, Percy Harvin, and Steve Hutchinson (well...we probably would have needed to throw Reed Doughty in to make it fair)

Quick, someone figure out how to get Campbell back and start a thread on this possibility!

bite your tounge. i do beleive today is the first day there is no campbell thread on the main page

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Damnit, we could have traded Jason Campbell to the Vikings for Adrian Peterson, Percy Harvin, and Steve Hutchinson (well...we probably would have needed to throw Reed Doughty in to make it fair)

Quick, someone figure out how to get Campbell back and start a thread on this possibility!

[SmootSmack]

Wasn't the mass media that started this thread. Don't want to discuss it, don't start these threads

[tryfuhl]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Wasn't the mass media that started this thread. Don't want to discuss it, don't start these threads

Speak for yourself bro, I get people from all sorts of IP ranges coming to view my posts.

[skinsfan69]

If I were a teammate of this drama king I would just call him out. It's all about him every off season. But Minn. knew what they were getting when they signed up for the side show.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

If I were a teammate of this drama king I would just call him out. It's all about him every off season. But Minn. knew what they were getting when they signed up for the side show.

With Favre comes the drama, but look at his production last year. That's why guys don't call him out. As you say the Vikes knew what they were getting.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

With Favre comes the drama, but look at his production last year. That's why guys don't call him out. As you say the Vikes knew what they were getting.

Childress deserves a heck of a lot of credit for this Favre situation. Basically, he decided last year to 1) bite the bullet on his Jackson investment just when he was about to receive the payoff (whatever that might have been), 2) sell out everything to go get Favre, staking his reputation as a HC to what basically amounted to a gimmick, 3) Ignore the advice of all the media types who suggested that it's terrible for locker room chemistry to let Favre play by his own set of rules that the rest of the team is held to a different standard.

And he's been steadfast in his defense of Favre as his QB even as Favre isn't acting like he owes anyone anything. Granted, as soon as Favre gets too old to be effective (and that day is coming eventually...right?), this will all blow up in Childress' face if he doesn't cut the cord before then, but as long as he knows his team and thinks his team is going to win with Favre under center, I think he's found a way around the "having to build a team the right way" mantra.

The Vikings are what Snyder thought the Redskins could be about a decade ago.

[SFREDSKIN]

Who cares!! He's an attention whore.

[GusFrerotte]

True I guess we are the mass media!!!!!! Close the thread Smooty!!!! JK!!!!!

[SirClintonPortis]

I hope he comes back and plays well.