Just three weeks ago, Brett Favre said he wasn't coming out of retirement to play for the Minnesota Vikings. He was lying. Favre's agent says the diva quarterback will sign with the Vikings on Tuesday.
This is just the latest chapter in Favre's messy divorce with the Green Bay Packers, the team Favre led to two Super Bowls. Seemingly Favre can't accept the fact that Packers got tired of Favre's annual offseason waffling and decided to move on. They traded him to the New York Jets to keep Favre from signing with an NFC team. Favre flamed out in the Big Apple and "retired." Now he's determined to pay back Packers management by playing for their biggest rival, the Vikings.
Why has Favre seemingly changed his mind again? The publicity whore didn't want to go to training camp. This is about Brett being Brett, which means the world has to revolve around the quarterback.
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- 150967
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Oops...looks like I cross-posted with Doc. I'll close that one and re-post here: Reports are all over the Web that Brett Favre boarded a plane this morning in Hattiesburg and took off the Minnesota, where he'll reportedly be signing with the Vikings to play this fall. The Vikings were a serious consideration last year, when Favre had to fight Green Bay for the right to play anywhere after his faux-retirement. Green Bay ultimately traded Favre to the New York Jets, where he had a less-than-storied year, hampered in part by an injury to his throwing arm. Now, it seems, Favre will play for the Vikings, a schedule that would include two games against his former team of Green Bay. The two teams are considered arch-rivals. Some pundits have said that a good run defense and solid running game made the Vikings a likely contender for a playoff birth prior to the addition of Favre.
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- Todd Stauffer
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- 2009-08-18T11:19:18-06:00
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- 151007
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I said a long time ago that he wasn't retired.
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- golden eagle
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- 2009-08-18T22:12:21-06:00
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- 151076
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I can't support father time any more. He needs to sit down before he gets knocked out or seriously injured.
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- Walt
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- 2009-08-20T17:31:07-06:00
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