I don’t believe the National media has a “disdain” for Minnesota sports teams. What makes you say that? Gonzo most of the time your spot on, but how are Minnesota sport teams media victims?

I’ve been a Favre to Minnesota guy for over two years, and I think it was a great move, but Peter King is right. The Vikes put several lines in the sand to Favre, and he blew them off each time. The Vikes still went out and signed him.

It was plain Favre wanted to play but didn’t want to do OTA’s or the first two weeks or training camp. If that was the case, the Vikings would have been better off to say something to the effect of:

“Look, we need to upgrade the QB position, and he is an upgrade. But he’s 40, so we want to avoid unnecessary wear and tear on his body. he has a partially torn rotator cuff, but with his knowledge and experience in the offense we feel we can let him ease his way on to this team.”

I think it’s more of a tiring of Favre and the on-again, off-again retirement saga, which we’ll go through next year thanks to the 2 year contract the Vikes signed him to.

Then all the Viking fans who said he was washed up since 2005, that as soon as it was mentioned he may come here he became that 28 Year old HOF QB again. I for one am glad the press is finally coming around to reality with thia Viking fan.

This article is just about spot on.

I would just have added an additional point to the argument – that not only is it about the love of Brett Favre vs. the hate toward MN, its also about the fact that now the media had to choose between two other things: Saying that the Favre acquisition was a tremendous boon for the vikings, vikings fans and Favre himself OR saying it was all handled poorly, that Favre was being selfish and that the Packers have been seriously wronged. If they go with the former, they risk Packer nation being upset that the media is enabling Brett’s betrayal OR if the go with the latter they incite, well……this very article.

They chose the latter and the risk of the occasional Vikings fan calling them out as opposed to the barrage of Packer nation errational fanatacism. My experience with my sister’s response is all I need to know to think that, from the media’s selfish perspective, they made the arguably better choice.

Minnesota is not one. That is obvious. As long as the NFL is one of the few leagues big markets can’t outbuy the small markets in they have to fear a Minnesota, KC, Tenn, or dare I even say s Louis.
We are not money makers for the NY/ Chicago/LA markets.
Too frickin bad!

Minnesota does not have enough viewers, the media code word for people with wallets to be drained by media ads, so they tend to think of it as an export zone for Garnett and Ortiz. They are deluded into thinking that Adrian Peterson is nice, but after all, it’s only Minnesota.

What King fails to grasp due to living in the isolated east is that the Vikings are fighting for economic survival out in the Midwest, and Favre is pumping dollars into the tank. Lots of dollars.

Remember that what goes around comes around. Let’s wait and see which team has made a mistake until after things are settled. I’d really like to read what it would be that King thinks he thinks after he witnesses the Vikings crush the Patriots in February.

… I don’t see how this isn’t an upgrade. Most of the criticism levied towards Favre and the Vikings (and I think there’s been less than this article makes it appear) has been directed towards the manner in which it happened, the contradictory statements to the media (which is always going to get them irritated) and the fear that Favre will look throughout 2009 like he did in late 2008. I don’t deny the hero worship of Favre by much of the press. I just think they’re afraid he’ll implode.

Will it result in more wins? Maybe, maybe not. There were significant upgrades made in Chicago and Green Bay as well, and Detroit almost has to be better. I suspect Schlereth’s 6-10 comment was as much of a product of the national media’s love of the NFC East (which is somewhat justified) and the relatively less impressive NFC North than it is disdain for the Vikings (let alone Minnesota).

I’ve never really noticed any anti-Minnesota bias in the national press but that maybe because I never really paid attention.

I think you hit the nail on the head with this one. The media will always have a love affair with the Packers. I for one hope that Brett has one or two of his best seasons ever and takes the Viks to the promised land. Then we will hear nothing butt the sound of their collective lips smooching Brett Farves A$$. Thats my thoughts anyway.

Look, if there’s a silver bullet solution to finally winning a Super Bowl after all these years of disappointment and suffering, why not take it? The only thing is let’s make sure it’s not a bullet pointed at our own foot.

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so all of us fans can get on the same page and the national media can have actual games to write about and take up their free time. On Sept. 13 any liars, cheaters, bastards or divas wearing the purple in Cleveland will be our liars, cheaters, bastards and divas - and all of us fans will be united in backing them to victory.

As for the national media hating Minnesota? Well, I guess I haven’t seen that— but I will take your word for it. Mostly, I get the feeling that the national media just doesn’t pay any attention to Minnesota, whereas Green Bay is always one of the favored fair haired children. But I think AD gets pretty good coverage, as will the whole team if they put together a successful season. We’ll see.

The one thing that maybe you are missing— and I may just be misinterpreting what you wrote— is the idea that criticisms of how the Vikings allowed Favre to just piss on every deadline and ‘line in the sand’ on his way to finally signing with the team with just a little over 3 weeks before the start of the regular season, can actually have some legitimacy. You may not agree with those criticisms— most fans on this blog do not seem to agree with them anymore. And that is fine. But there are at least some actual fans who do think those criticisms are legitimate. I am one of them. And not only do I not ‘hate’ the team, I am actually entering my 35th year pulling like hell for them!

Like I said… we just need for this regular season to get underway…

Let’s fact it, nobody likes a loser, and we’ve been the biggest flop artists—maybe in all of professional sports—for the last fifty years. Maybe if we actually started to win something, we’d get a little more respect. As the expression goes, “You have to earn respect.”

It is a lot more like IGNORES them. I am a Lions fan and generally, a Detroit sports team fan. The national media is only interested in stories that are negative, or focus on a particular player. You guys have Peterson now, we had Barry Sanders. I never thought that either has hurt for publicity or love from the US national media.

As far as an anti-Minnesota bias…..I have never heard one negative word about the Twins or their players. Besides it is a small market [fact] and cannot compete for high salaried players [also a fact]. Every year the Twins are competitive and are a much admired team. The same could almost be said of the Vikings, except they can, and do, afford high profile free agents. I think the issue with the Vikings is the lack of a Super Bowl appearance despite good to dominant teams over the last dozen years or so.

I think the issue with the Favre signing is that there is finally a backlash over his antics over the last couple of years. The public and media are finally sick of him….in my opinion.