Open Thread: Vikings Introduce Favre

You’ll find this season much more enjoyable if you just drink the Favre Kool-Aid. It tastes great!! Let’s go VIKES! SKOL

…the same things we’ve already said about Favre in this post and others on this topic.

I had thought it may have been partially about money before, and this news says he came back and accepted more $. I just hope that he was never feeling as awful as he said he felt a matter of weeks ago.

Now it’s definitely a make-or-break year for Childress and Bevell.

Hopefully he goes down in the preseason to save the money

wait, a couple months ago, vikings fans on this blog seemed upset at the notion of having favre in a vikings uniform. now, you seem ecstatic. i think favre is a “diva.” skipping camp isn’t fair to jackson or any other vikings player. i don’t believe in special treatment. at first i was interested to see the vikings because of percy harvin, but i think that queer, favre, just nullified that feeling. he should retire and move to mexico.

Schlereth is not warm to the idea of the vikes and Favre. To put it lightly. He said “the vikings with Favre ARE NOT the best team in the NFC” What a TOOL.

45 later than expected.

Looks like my old High school Bus driver

“The more good tools you can have on the team, the better”

And it does sound like he had legitimate reason to hesitate, not deliberately jerking them around.

after not talking to him in 3weeks.

CHilly: you wanna take another shot at this?

wow

He was just letting the rotator cuff rest

According to him we are a really good running team

Every pass looks like shit

Cheer for the team that is assembled to play on any given Sunday…

Putting his career on the line also

Green Bay @ Vikes….see ya there!!

Learning the players steps,
rotator cuff,
thought it was over,
Chilly called him to beg

He looks like a lobster!

Now lets get to work and win a Super Bowl!

I’ll have a full post up soon at VikingVigil.com, but here is a quick thought:

Would you’d rather have another season with a backup manning the most important position on the field? Favre isn’t a top-15 quarterback, but he’s better than what we’ve got. Is he worth $12 million? Absolutely not, but the publicity more than makes up for that. It’s a solid move and the Vikings are now one of the top two teams in the NFC.

Yeah, I’d take a backup Manning. Peyton or Eli, either one. heh.

2 years? I’ll be suprised he makes it. $25 mil? Not worth it. Arm surgery? Is he really 100% or just gunning for the Pack? 39 soon to be 40? A number that will haunt us. Garuanteed Superbowl victiry? Dont count on it and dont hold your breath we even get close.

So yes, from the get go, I’ve been against this, and nothing has changed! I just dont see it with a guy this old and being banged up the year before. Yes, he did post SOME impressive numbers, but by the end of the season last year, othing that blew up my skirt. And I do realize he was on the Jets, but a team that is not total suck arse either. Is my aversion to this just because he was a Packer? No at all. I was happy when we got Longwell and Sharper…….

In their primes.

That will always be my gripe about this. We now have someone who is at the end of his career, not in the middle, getting towards the middle or still on the tail end of his peak and able to give us 5 years. 2 years? Sorry, that is pushing it. He was great……once. His ability to try to force the ball in the end of the big game, trying to make the big play so he can be hero (2007 NFC Championship anyone?) is something that was becoming common place towards the end of his time in Green Bay. I wont mention the fact that he is the NFL alltime leader in INT’s. Some have already said that Fran can eat his heart out……how? It’s only preseason and yet Favre is already going to get us 2 Superbowls in a row, without taking a snap? Yet last year a ton of people were ready to believe that T.J. was ready to go and lead this team. This signals the end of that expirement, yet, I think opens the door to another, highly possible, more disasterous experiment. For what ever reason, people think we must win now or slowely die. How? Peterson is only going into his 3rd year, our WR’s corp is one of the youngest out there that I know of, the D looks solid and is locked up for awhile and other then a few ne faces, the O looks like it will be around for awhile. Why are we hitting the panick button?

My honest thought of this whole situation will be put down by some as me being a none team player, being negative and other shoutdowns. So be it. I am not going to just sit on my butt and not say that this is a mistake when that is my feeling no matter what most or half may say nor think. And if that makes me some antiViking, then too bad. Get over it. I still am coming the 5th, still cheering my home team, still hope they win, but wishing we did not have the person we are now stuck with running the passing game.

With all that said, my prediction is two fold:

If things go the best they can. Division Champs with a trip to the Divisional round but thats it. Not even an NFC Championship game.

Worst case, with Favre going the whole season, wild card with a loss in the first round.

Im sorry, some are going to get mad, but I dont care. Why is Favre the sudden answer to all our QB problems? Why are some who so openly blasted ideas by others or myself with QB’s who were younger so willig to go with someone who was good?

Bring on the bashing.

… because it got painted as a case of 3 weeks of an “Aw, shucks” QB who was happily retired, and playing with kids getting a phone call out of the blue by a coach who went back on his words from the start of training camp— and once again told his QBs they were crap by making a desperate plea on the phone for “Aw, shucks” to come in and take everything over, even though training camp had already started. And while “Aw, shucks” is going to try his best, he can’t really promise anything because he is still a little bit banged up—- and wouldn’t even have come back if the coach hadn’t called him….. out of the blue. Even missing training camp wasn’t his idea— he was happily retired, after all.

Wow. Anyone who thinks this guy isn’t a sharp politician is kidding themselves.

Now we know what Chilly and Favre were talking about in the ride over from the airport:

Favre: “I’ll come in and try to pull your blundering ass out of the fire. But you will have to take full responsibility and play the stooge if this doesn’t work, or I get tired of it.”

Chilly: “Yes sir, Mr. Favre.”

I am hoping this all works out with a SB Ring at the end of the season, of course… and I will be rooting for Favre to have his best games ever in Lambeau Field (…. and not even in a Packers uniform, no less! Ha!) but….. wow.

Chilly may be even worse at politics than he is at coaching.

that think that people are going to “not be real fans” and stop cheering for the Vikings now because of Favre.

Are you kidding me??

Nothing is ever going to stop us from cheering for the Vikes. Not even Brett. Let us get our hate for him out of our system so that, come week 1, we are primed and ready to go.

Just because people don’t like Favre DOES NOT mean they are going to stop loving the Vikes. And if you think that, then I’m sorry, but you are a complete moron.

It’s the people that are only cheering for the Vikings BECAUSE Brett is here that you should disguisted with. Get it right people.

Ridiculous.