Welcome!! Favre = Classy

This is my first foray into blogging that is for anyone's eyes other than mine. Ford those who don't know me, my name is Andy and I love my sports. These pages are going to be an outlet for my thoughts mainly on sports related topic, but I'll try not to limit myself.

You will probably find that my posts will have a little "Mowtown lean" in that I will probably talk about Detroit sports....a lot. If that is not your cup of tea, sorry, but it is what it is. To get things rolling though, I wanted to hit the hot topic in the NFL as of today...Brett Favre.

I obviously can only speak for myself, but Brett Favre has got to hang it up. I am so fed up with the Brett Favre saga. Flashback to March 2008...Brett Favre retires. Now I admit, as an avid follower of NFL football, this was a big deal and (guilty) I watched a lot of the ESPN lovefest that day. I couldn't help myself, he was and still remains one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history. Then flash forward 4 months...Favre is back. He Re-ups with Green Bay and then is subsequently traded to the Jets. This move I could understand. The guy steps away from football and once training camp rolls around, he gets the itch and has to come back. Ok I get it.

He played out the 08-09 season and, in my opinion, he cost the Jets the playoffs with the way he played in the last 5 weeks. Then surprise surprise, he retires again. Again, I get it. The coverage by the network was again, grossly slanted in the Favre direction, but I stayed strong this time and tuned it out.

Here's where I lose it. With training camps approaching, Brett decides he's still not done. "Brett Favre: contemplating a comeback!" He even had his own spot on the ESPN crawl. At this point, I knew that he was going to come back and play for yet another team. It was just a matter of which sucker was going to bite. Low and behold, here comes Minnesota. Resting all of their hopes on this 39 year old shell of his former self. Favre essentially holds them hostage during training camp, but we all knew, he wasn't showing up in anyone's training camp. Sure enough he decided that he was going to enjoy his retirement (but the papers were never filed).

Preseason Week 1: Vikings play, Rosenfels outplays Jackson. Then Monday rolls around and we see this. The sports world is abuzz! The saga finally ends with Favre in Minnesota on Tuesday...signed, sealed, delivered, and practicing (Funny thing, the rumors say he will start this weekend's preseason game...with a whole 3.5 days of practice-me thinks Mr. Favre had the playbook all along, but more on that later).

So now what? If I were Sage Rosenfels or Tavaris Jackson, I would be fuming. Put yourself into their shoes, or for that matter, any of the other players who have been there since day #1. This guy can just step right in, without having gone through the hot August 2-a-days, and possibly start on 3.5 days of practice??? What a joke. Like I said before, he held this organization and its fan base hostage just dangling in front of them the possibility of him coming back. If I were them, I would not even want to see him in a Vikings jersey. The only people likely to be excited over this are the lovely people at ESPN and of course John Madden whose man-love for Favre is legend-wait for it-dary.

I can't believe that Minnesota really needs him. This is Adrian Peterson's team. All Favre is going to do is turn around, hand-off the ball, and throw a handful of play-action passes. Either of the other QBs on roster could do that. I feel like the NFC Central is so weak that the Vikings were probably going to win the division without him (Apologies to my beloved Lions), does this make it more of a lock...maybe, but I don't think so. I refer you to his stat line in the last 5 weeks of last season.

With all of that being said, Brett Favre may be a top 5 all time quarterback, a lock for the hall of fame, and have a world class arm, but in the end he is a world class jerk.