Here we go again. On Tuesday, Brett Favre officially signed on with the Minnesota Vikings to be their starting quarterback for the 2009 season. He will start in this Friday's preseason game against Kansas City in Minneapolis.
For the past four months Favre has flirted with the Vikings to the point that he bought a house in Minneapolis and rented rooms in Green Bay for their game against the Packers on November 1st. Favre even went so far as to have surgery to repair his elbow that he injured last season while playing with the New York Jets. Then all of a sudden, Favre announced that he was staying retired and he would not be signing on with the Jets. Vikings head coach Brad Childress said that he was sticking with either Tarvaris Jackson or Sage Rosenfels as his starting quarterbacks.
Then on Monday, Fox Sports' writer Jay Glazier was reporting that members of the Vikings didn't believe that the Favre saga was completely done and then within the next twenty four hours Favre was on Vikings owner Ziggy Wilf's private plane and being flown up from Gulfport, Mississippi to sign a new deal and by late afternoon the familiar number four was on the Vikings practice field.
Rumors were running rampant all day that Favre and the Vikings were just using the retirement as a smoke screen and the real reason Favre wasn't in until today was because he didn't want to participate in training camp and have to live in the dorm style facility that he would have had to. With the Vikings breaking camp on August 13, Favre won't have to deal with that anymore. What does that say for Jackson and Rosenfels? Were they in on the alleged secret?
We as sports fans had to deal with the Favre three ring circus last off-season with the, "will he, won't he" retirement question. Well at least now with a signed contract we know that Favre will be a Viking for at least this year and possibly next. The question remains, what kind of quarterback did the Vikings just sign? Is this the youthful, energetic forty year old that was throwing six touchdowns in a game and smiling like a school boy leading the Jets to a 8-3 start last season? Or is it the broken down, injury prone, has-been, that led the Jets to their 1-4 finish and missed the playoffs?
Whichever quarterback the Vikings get, one thing is for certain. October 5th and November 1st just got a whole lot more interesting. Those are the two regular season dates when the Vikings and the Packers will play. To me a more fitting end to this story would be to see those two teams play a third time in the NFC title game and let the feud end on the field. As for me. I really like Favre and I want him to do well. I just won't go through another should I stay or should I go now saga with him again. The next time it happens, and it probably will, I will just change the channel. Just like most of America will.
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I see Brett Favre having an up and down season like he did last year. He will crave the spotlight as he has always done, and he will probably make a lot of people in Minnesota (including teammates) regret that the only thing they will get out of this whole Favre thing is more tickets sold (not that that's bad) and being able to thumb their collective noses at Green Bay. In the end, I don't see Super Bowl rings... I see a reality show starring Brett Favre on his home farm in Mississippi trying to decide whether or not to unretire for the upteenth time to play for... oh say... Seattle??
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