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Breaking News: Favre on plane to Minnesota

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BoberFett said:
No.
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provide your argument. are you just some fanboi talking, or do you seriously think the Vikings aren't a threat with Favre?

Personally, I prefer a great team like the Vikings to a great team like the Colts, that will simply bore me to death throughout a season.
 
Anyone else start reading this thread, get through about a dozen posts, then think to yourself, "oh yeah" and glance over to make sure it wasn't a thread that someone necroed?
 
ESPN decided to show helicopter footage of Favre getting into a car for 30 minutes instead of showing Around the Horn (one of my favs) at 2 PM 🙁

WTF ESPN. It's not breaking news, it can wait...or if you're really jizzing in your pants put it on ESPN news...don't bump other shows because of it.
 
How can anything having to do with this guy be considered "breaking" news. Some people just have no life I guess.

Mr. Favre should bow out gracefully and retire. Your body begins to pain you (especially after the hits he has taken over the years) at his age.

these days hearing about Favre is like hearing that the Octo-mom just had another kid. You scratch your head and wonder why anyone (the OP) felt the need to even mention it.

OP, let him go ...
 
dud said:
How can anything having to do with this guy be considered "breaking" news. Some people just have no life I guess.

Mr. Favre should bow out gracefully and retire. Your body begins to pain you (especially after the hits he has taken over the years) at his age.

these days hearing about Favre is like hearing that the Octo-mom just had another kid. You scratch your head and wonder why anyone (the OP) felt the need to even mention it.

OP, let him go ...
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I'm no Favre lover, I am amused by his control of the media.
 
fustercluck said:
ESPN decided to show helicopter footage of Favre getting into a car for 30 minutes instead of showing Around the Horn (one of my favs) at 2 PM 🙁

WTF ESPN. It's not breaking news, it can wait...or if you're really jizzing in your pants put it on ESPN news...don't bump other shows because of it.
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The thing is, ESPN makes it a story because they know there's a HUGE love/hate relationship between favre and the media, which quite honestly, they had a large part in creating. They make it important and then the fans feel it's important. ESPN and most other media outlets really should take a large part of the drama placed around his will he/won't he circus.
 
rasczak said:
The thing is, ESPN makes it a story because they know there's a HUGE love/hate relationship between favre and the media, which quite honestly, they had a large part in creating.
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This. And yet people still get drawn in. I find watching the people fall for the soap opera more than I care about what Favre decides to do.
 
Fingolfin269 said:
Are you trying to use some type of reverse psych on yourself? They will easily win their division and probably the conference with him at the helm. This is a fact (assuming they avoid a rash of injuries to key players).
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Errr... Green Bay will likely be a very good team this year and Chicago has added a lot of talent. I see the NFC North being very competitive.
 
This is what Bill Simmons had to say on the issue:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100813

Holdout Type No. 8: The "This Looks Like A Convoluted Excuse To Just Skip Training Camp, But Really, I'm Lawfully Extorting My Team And My Fans" Holdout

As first perfected by Roger Clemens, someone who was much dumber and much smarter than we thought he was. In 2006 and 2007, Clemens pretended he was retiring when, really, he was just trying to make as much money for as little work possible. Both the 2006 Astros ($12.25 million for 15 weeks of work) and 2007 Yankees ($18 million for four months of work) were suckered in. And it would have kept happening if Brian McNamee didn't turn Clemens into a national disgrace during the winter of 2007-08.

Three years later, there's a chance Brett Favre might be borrowing from Clemens' playbook. He says his surgically repaired ankle doesn't feel right. Do you believe him? Is the ankle being treated by the same doctors who treated LeBron's phantom elbow injury that miraculously disappeared the moment he signed with Miami? (Uh-oh, I forgot, he's taking mental notes!) I just know that the Vikings are a Super Bowl contender. It's an uncapped year. The dropoff from Favre to the Tarvaris Jackson/Sage Rosenfels combo is roughly the difference between opening "Inception" with Leo DiCaprio versus opening it with Screech. Really, Favre can name his price ... and as he's naming it, he can pretend that his ankle still aches, that the fire might be gone, that he doesn't know if he can handle another pounding like the one he took in the NFC title game ... and meanwhile, that price keeps climbing and Minnesota fans (and teammates and coaches) keep panicking every time they think of Sage throwing another grounder or Tarvaris coughing up another moonball. If Favre is milking this ankle injury to boost his price, he's an evil genius.

I bet Favre stays "retired" through the preseason, knowing that Minnesota's first five weeks shape up like this:

Week 1: at New Orleans
Week 2: home for Miami
Week 3: home for Detroit
Week 4: Bye week
Week 5: at Jets (Monday night)

He could return during the bye, make his debut on Monday night (in New York, no less), play a 13-week regular season, save himself training camp miles and a Week 1 pounding ... and make the same money. And that's his worst-case scenario. What if the Sage/Tarvaris combo falls apart? What if the Vikes start out 1-2 or ... (gulp) ... 0-3? How much leverage would he have then? Could he get $20 million for 13 games plus playoffs? What about $25 million? That's why I used the phrase "lawfully extorting," because it's perfectly legal but it's also extortion (a word that basically means "inflicting pain or suffering to get what you want"). Minnesota will suffer without Favre, and so will its fans. He knows this. But instead of doing the right thing and either saying, "Pay me a ton of money and I'll play again" or "My ankle's screwed up, I'm too old, it's time to go," he's being a greedy attention hog and milking the situation. Like always. I cannot defend this type of holdout.
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erikistired said:
really? the supposed text messages to his teammates? making his team wait until now (if he is even coming back for sure) to know if they have a real QB or a replacement guy?

the favre is a great quarterback, but dude loves the drama.
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you mean the rumors that didn't start from favre?

and as someone above said, he had surgery and couldn't commit for sure, so he didn't know if he would be healthy or not to play at the time.

and favre likes to skip training camp, anyone who knows anything about football knows this.

funny how the people who really have no clue wtf was going on in the off season are the ones mainly populating this thread with posts. it's mainly the people who get their Favre news at TMZ.
 
BoberFett said:
When will this asshole die? Because it's clear that only his death will stop the endless bullshit surrounding this drama queen.

I don't even pay attention to football, and I can't seem to avoid hearing about him constantly.
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I don't see him as a drama queen. His situation has always been "I should probably retire but I really don't want to because I love football," which is simple, understandable, and even admirable.

It's the sports media and people around him that have made it into a circus.
 
IceBergSLiM said:
I hope some rookie defensive end snaps every ligament in his knees on opening day.
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Wow, you're so cool. Can I be an intarweb shit talker who wouldn't even get on the field with a touch football team let alone one stacked with 300lb guys?

Seriously, when you're 40, I doubt you'll even perform at 1/10,000,000 of the effort that Favre does ever day just to play a game.

I have yet to understand why people like to hate on Favre and then double down with wishing he were hurt. How pathetic are you in real life?
 
A. Rodge will decimate the Vikings this season.
Book it.

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