Favre to Vikings: I'll Make Decision by July 30th
by Anthony21 on Jul 15, 2009 1:33 PM CDT
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PrintAnd finally, we have a deadline in place. Brett Favre told the Associated Press that he'll inform the Vikings of his decision by July 30th -- the day training camp gets underway in Mankato.
"There's two weeks left and I'm doing everything I can," Favre said. "I was down here Sunday morning working out. I'm trying to get everything to where I feel 100 percent when I go in. I can't go in any less. When you're 39 years old, it's hard enough. But it's getting there."
First of all, this is good news. Having this thing continue beyond the start of training camp is something the team couldn't afford to have happen, so the fact that it won't extend beyond July 30th is worth being happy about. Ideally, this would have been resolved by now, but that's just not the nature of the Brett Favre dance. He'll carry it out to the last minute, and as long as "last minute" is defined as the moment training camp begins, I can live with that.
Second, this news shouldn't be unexpected. There's simply no good reason for the Vikings to allow the dance to continue into training camp -- if we would have reached the 30th with no resolution, telling Favre "no deal" would be the appropriate response. I think everyone can be satisfied with the situation being solidified slightly in advance of training camp, and forcing Favre's hand to make that happen was absolutely the right decision by the team.
Then, of course, there's the question of what Favre will actually decide. Will he be comfortable enough with his arm in two weeks to make the comeback, or will the months and months of drama have culminated in Favre simply deciding to remain in retirement? The fact that he's practicing hard and saying his arm is "getting there" signals to me that, in all likelihood, he'll make the decision to play for the Vikings this season.
Here's how the article described Favre's performance in a practice this morning:
Favre hit a variety of passes to high school and college wide receivers. He was crisp on short timing passes and was hitting receivers in the end zone from about 50 yards away. He attempted a few deep passes off bootlegs and usually hit his targets in stride.
And here's another quote from Favre:
"I don't think Minnesota would even consider it if I didn't have it," Favre said. "Second of all, I wouldn't even think about it if I didn't have it. Now, having it here and having in on the field on Sundays is two different things, I know that for a fact. I know what it takes to play on Sunday and I still believe I have that."
When you put it all together -- the rigorous practice schedule, the progress he's apparently making on the field, and his feeling that he 'still has it' -- you've gotta be left with the impression that this is virtually a done deal. At this point, it's really just a matter of waiting for it to become official because everything's pointing in that direction. Barring a stunning and unexpected setback, of course.
Bottom line: He's comin', he's comin'!
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Hes comin for sure..this pretty much him telling us hes going to be here….I think his arm is ready to go already, but its Favre and he will wait tell the last minute just to prepare mentally.
This HAS To End Soon!
Two weeks left and his arm still isn’t in shape enough? That makes me a bit nervous. Not to mention the morale in the locker room can’t be good. Sage has been a real trooper through all of this and IF Tarvaris wants a trade, that could divide the locker room even more since from what I’ve read, many players still support Tarvaris as a starter (don’t ask me why). This team has to feel like it’s being put on hold to roll out the red carpet for one man. Granted, it’s Favre, but the Vikings can’t move on psychologically until this Favre drama is resolved, by Favre OR the Vikings! They say when a team has two starting quarterbacks, they don’t have one. Well, right now the Vikings have THREE! This team is poised to make a serious run at a Super Bowl and right now three different guys might be starting for this team. The leadership factor is still a major question mark. If Favre starts, he’d better shine like gold out there or the Vikings Super Bowl hopes are going to fall like lead. Don’t blow this chance, Chilly!
by Purple And Gold Forever on Jul 15, 2009 2:07 PM CDT reply actions
This is like a some sorority party or something?
Soon Charley Walters will have reports like this from the locker room?:
“I’m not going to try to win the Super Bowl unless Mary Sue is invited. I’ll’ just burst into tears and ruin my makeup. Mary Sue is so very special to me. I couldn’t play football without her.”
Not. “Tell me how much that game check is again for the winners?”
Here's hoping..
for a stunning and unexpected setback!
by iseepurplepeople on Jul 15, 2009 2:08 PM CDT reply actions
Drama Queen
stay out in the pasture, why put a TEAM through the drama?
He will only bring down the Vikings, write this in stone.
39 years old and thinks he can make a “comeback”, this is the NFL not the
Vince McManon WWE !!!
Can U say “Pill Head” ?
Quick
Someone take away the handgun and half-full bottle of scotch from FARVA. This will only seal his months long state of melancholy.
by Jepp The Viking on Jul 15, 2009 2:49 PM CDT reply actions
You're no fun.
Taking my scotch away…
In AP I trust
Just say no to Favre.
F-A-R-V-A =/= F-A-V-R-E
by FarvaForTheVikings on Jul 15, 2009 9:51 PM CDT up reply actions
Ha!
If you gotta watch Favre in purple, you should at least be entitled to alcohol and firearms. Is this not America?
‘And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws’.
This is America
Boobies come with every handgun and alcohol purchase. It’s federal law now.
‘And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws’.
Exactly!
I’m going to need something to distract me when I’m watching the game. I mean, can you imagine what’ll happen when I realize I’m cheering for Favre? I’ll… oh God… cheering for Favre… is there any way to go back into denial?
In AP I trust
Just say no to Favre.
F-A-R-V-A =/= F-A-V-R-E
by FarvaForTheVikings on Jul 16, 2009 12:46 PM CDT up reply actions
LOL
…You could tell that it’s been a tough year for FarvaForTheVikings. His living room is a mess, the shades are shut, random sports page articles strewn about. You can see that he has been depressed for quite a few months now.
Farva is sitting in his worn-out recliner, sobbing. There is a half bottle of Johnny Walker laying on the floor nearby, his handgun on the end table. On the television you can see Joe Buck interviewing Brett Favre as he is celebrating his Super Bowl victory with the Minnesota Vikings.
Farva screams out in agony “Why GOD?!? Why ME?!?”
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
The above is an excerpt from my un-finished novel entitled “The Angry Norseman”.
‘And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws’.
Frozen in shock as he realizes that this, here, is his future. What hope is there? What can he do? How will he survive the combatting emotions of hate for Favre and love for the Vikings? The pain, the pain! Reaches for his bottle of Johnny Walker…
In AP I trust
Just say no to Favre.
F-A-R-V-A =/= F-A-V-R-E
by FarvaForTheVikings on Jul 16, 2009 10:52 PM CDT up reply actions
Inadvertanly, or perhaps an intentional move by his subconscious, he grabs the gun…
Visit:
http://www.vikingvigil.com
Skol Vikings!
Woot Woot!
… and shoots the television. No more, he says to himself. I can take no more of this madness. I shall go out into the wild and become one with nature, running with the wolves and living with the foxes. Ralph Waldo Emerson eat your heart out.
In AP I trust
Just say no to Favre.
F-A-R-V-A =/= F-A-V-R-E
by FarvaForTheVikings on Jul 17, 2009 8:27 AM CDT up reply actions
With a visceral howl, he reaches for his shirt in an attempt to rip it off with a power known only to nature’s most fearsome beasts; alas, he is unsuccessful. The shirt remains, as he grunts in defiance. With a quick glance, he spots his exit.
The window.
Releasing another rage-induced bellow, he takes two quick steps and leaps, arms outstretched, toward the portal to his freedom…
Visit:
http://www.vikingvigil.com
Skol Vikings!
Woot Woot!
… With a resounding crash he catapults his body through the panes of glass, tumbling end over end towards his final release, six stories below.
But alas, there is to be no shuffling off this mortal coil for the Angry Norseman. Three stories from his destiny, he belatedly realizes with a shudder: the Superbowl was just played. That means it is February. In Minnesota.
A split second later, his hurtling body plunges into the six foot deep snowdrift. Bones snap, and blood spurts, but there is not going to be the “pavement pancake” that he thought would be the period to his sentence as a Viking fan.
When the blackness again lifts from his mind, he finds himself in a hospital bed. Oh well, perhaps it is all for the best. Perhaps I should just enjoy knowing there is finally a Lombardi in finally in Winter Park, and block out the rest, the psychic price that was paid to achieve that
As his consciousness further returns, his aware that there is a television on in the hospital room, and there is a nurse inserting a DVD into the attached player. As she is pushing the play button, he overhears her say to another attendant “I understand from his history that he is a passionate Vikings fan. Perhaps it will speed his recovery if he watches this ‘Road to the Superbowl’ video. It recaps the entire 2009 season in detail, starting with the thrilling off season achievement of signing Brett Favre. He’ll probably drift in and out of consciousness, so let’s just put it on continuous play so he can maybe pick up where he left off.”
The Angry Norseman tries to scream “Noooooo!” but the pain stops him short. WIth horror, he realizes that his jaw must have been broken in the fall, and is being held rigid by a device in order to heal. He frantically attempts to gesture to the nurse, but his arms are also in casts …
from Anchorman…. “I love scotch. Scotchy scotch scotch” LOL
by shift47_brada on Jul 16, 2009 12:20 PM CDT up reply actions
Did anyone else drool a little?
When the article talks about hitting people 50 yards down the field in stride? On a bootleg nonetheless? Mmmmmm…..bootlegs…..
by Jepp The Viking on Jul 15, 2009 2:54 PM CDT reply actions
I’m gitty!!! He’s as good as here. I don’t care if he suits up right before the Purple take the field in Cleveland on opening day. Just as long as he’s our QB come September. I truly believe he can make a major difference on this club and is the missing piece of the puzzle. Without him, T. Jack and Sage do nothing for me and we are an ordinary club. With a healthy Farve, we could go deep into the play-offs.
He is coming...
There is absolutely NO WAY he is putting in this much work just to say “nah, nevermind!”
Nice Blog!
I’m excited about the prospect of Favre joining the Vikes this year…
I don’t think it’s a guarantee of greatness, but it should make for some excitement, for sure!!
I’ve been reading a lot of comments all over the web on this ‘drama’…
Good to find some (mostly) positive opinion on the Vikings – looks like this blog hasn’t been infiltrated by divisional crybaby posters! ;)
Anyone else in Arizona??
GO VIKES!!
by ArizonaVikingsFan on Jul 16, 2009 2:38 PM CDT reply actions
He is coming....
…and I am going.
Couldn’t be a bigger Vikes fan than me. I’ve been through it all and have never wavered since I signed on as a Vikes fanatic in 1967. The Vikes have sold their soul. When the diva signs this will be the first time I ever go against the Vikes – something incomprehensible to me. The Vikes might as well be the KMart Vikings, they don’t even resemble what the team is supposed to be about. We now have generations of Vikes fans who weren’t around when the stood for something. I can’t support the insanity that is now the standard for my beloved Vikings.
I guess I am still a Vikes fan – I just can’t support this cast of imposters and I will make my annual trek to canton to hold my “Jim Marshall Belongs in the Hall of Fame” as I do every year.
That's sad
‘And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws’.
WOW…
How many teams in the NFL today are made up of solely ‘drafted’ or ‘single team’ players? any??
You would sacrifice 42 years of support over 1 player?? Argue-ably a top 10 (or 5) QB, who may be old(er) but still has a desire (and I suggest the skills) to play the GAME!!??
I hear the same thing from other ‘fans’ who want to walk away from the Vikes IF we start (insert player name here)… dumb.
I’ve been there for it all too brother… who they start/play isn’t important… the W/L column is… the titles are… a SB ring will be!
Stick with your team through it all. GO VIKES!
I believe the 'push off' cost us 'our' SuperBowl...
I believe you 'go for the win'... instead of 'taking a knee'...
by ArizonaVikingsFan on Jul 16, 2009 4:30 PM CDT up reply actions
Are you serious?
“They don’t even resemble what the team is supposed to be about.” You could take the Love Boat scandal, but signing a player that used to play for a division rival, and whse biggest crime is being uncertain about contnuing ot play as he approaches 40 … that is where your gonna draw the line?
Uh … OK.
be nice. he’s obviously not thinking clearly and is very close to the edge.
by iseepurplepeople on Jul 17, 2009 3:51 PM CDT up reply actions
its not just about one player
It is about wins/losses but its also about character and establishing a pattern of excellence. The move to get farve is all about instant gratification (which in all likelihood will not result in even a trip to the superbowl let alone a victory) with no consideration of what this will do the team. I am so sick of the vikes not looking or acting like a team – for far too long they look like a random bunch of individuals often pulling in opposite directions. When the wheels fall off they don’t seem to recover. Moves like this reinforce that it is not about the team.
To use a football phrase, the vikes have not “imposed their will” on their opponets for far too long – we just stumble along and it seems acceceptable that we don’t have a plan. It is not acceptable. We get way to high over a win and seem despondant when we loose – there is nothing steady about the way this organization is run. I can’t fricking stand it.
Is Farve better than what we have? Yes
Will we win a Super Bowl with farve? Highly, unlikely. Almost no chance
Will we be any further along next year in figuring out our quarterback situation? No, we are losing ground and letting a person who isn’t even on the team dictate our future plans to us.
Blind faith in any team allows them to become complacent. They know that they can act like fools, be a disgrace to the uniform and people will still love them. I’ll stick by my team through thick and thin but I won’t support an organization that doesn’t deserve to put on the jersey. Character does matter – that is precisely why I became a vikes fan in the first place.
whoa
just take it easy now. put the keyboard down and back away slowly. think about what you’re saying here. not support the vikings? can those words be used in that order?
look i’m sure everyone knows i’m not the biggest fan of the favre deal. i think it’s the wrong move for the organization. i thought letting tomlin go was the wrong move too or dungy or any number of other players and/or coaches who have come and gone over the years. but to not support your team? even worse to no support the vikings? that’s just going a bit far.
once the season starts, i’m sure you’ll back off the ledge and start thinking sensibly.
by iseepurplepeople on Jul 17, 2009 3:37 PM CDT up reply actions
A Little Perspective...
How’d you take it when the Vikes pulled in Jim McMahon, ex-Bears QB? Or the whole Hershel Walker business? Aside from the stupid trade issue, Walker was coming from the Cowboys and it wasn’t that much earlier that the Vikes and Cowboys were the bitterest of foes.
The NFL is a business, the players are it’s commodities, and the games are the products it sells. They use city rivalries to drum up support and angst, whatever it takes to sell tickets and advertisements and make money. If the NFL thought it could double it’s profits next year by revoking the Viking franchise, the Vikings would be history. It’s we fans that are truly in it for the love of the game, not the NFL, not the teams, not the players. Sure, they may love the game, but their bottom line is cash on the barrel-head.
Ours is VICTORY & GLORY.
So where’s the real character reside?
Ah, ah,
We come from the land of the ice and snow,
From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands,
To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming!
SKOL!
The irony of all this is that Favre may actually be the exception to your rule
that for players “their bottom line is cash on the barrel-head.” Favre turned down $20m “bribe” from Packers last year to stay retired, and undoubtedly has damaged his endorsement value much, much more than that. This year he got out of a contract that would have had the Jets paying him $12m or $14m (forget which), to probably be playing for an incentive-laden deal probably paying less, at least for anything short of a Superbowl season. In other words, Favre has actually let his “love of the game” motivations hurt his financial interests the last two years. Yet Favre is for many the poster boy for many of NFL players looking out only of themselves. Go figure.
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