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Will Brett Favre be a Viking this year?

Posted by The Jazzy One

July 25, 2008 |

I’m sure at this point most of you are tired of hearing about the Brett Favre situation, but if I’m going to do a good job at covering the Vikings this year, I feel like I should probably talk about it.

Will Brett Favre become a Viking this year?

Well, my short answer is this: I very highly doubt it.

There are rumors going around that Brett would prefer to play for the Vikings in the upcoming year, but I just don’t see Green Bay allowing that to happen. You know they’re not going to trade him to the Vikings… giving up a beloved hero to a Division rival on purpose would simply not happen in the NFL. They’re also very unlikely to hand him his release for the exact same reason: They do NOT want him in the NFC North.

With that line of reasoning, it’s far more likely that the Packers will trade Favre, likely to an AFC team that they won’t have to see for the next couple of years, thus avoiding his grand return to Green Bay. According to the most recent reports, the Packers have already started calling around to other teams trying to get a feel for what they could get for Favre. It’s really starting to look like we’ll see Brett in a different uniform next year. Do you realize there are lots of NFL fans who are too young to even remember a time when the Packers did not have Favre? I watch Vikings games with my nephew Nathan who is going to be a Senior this coming school year, and is a pretty big sports fan, and Favre had already been starting for the Packers for a year by the time Nathan was born!

Anyway, back to the story… then we have all of the “tampering” rumors flying around.

I have to say that I’m a bit skeptical about these things. An early report said that Favre had been making phone calls from a team-issued cell phone to Vikings coach Brad Childress and Offensive Coordinator Darrell Bevell. When I heard this, my first thought was that there was no way to prove that Childress or Bevell had made calls to Favre, as the NFL would not have access to their phone records.

But then a few days later it comes out that Favre did not even HAVE a team-issued phone. So now I’m left to wonder who started the first rumors?!?

I think it’s coming off as an attempt from someone in Green Bay to make Favre look bad. I hate to be a conspiracy theorist about the thing, but could it be that someone in Packer-land is “unofficially” trying to make the situation so difficult that Brett decides to hang it up (again) out of frustration alone?

A couple days ago Mike Tirico of ESPN Radio brought out an interesting idea, as well… what if the Vikings have planted ideas to other teams saying that they could trade for Favre, then the Vikings would turn around and give them something better in return… so for example, the Falcons could give a 2nd round pick for Brett, then the Vikings would give the Falcons a 1st rounder for him.

Interesting thought.

What it all boils down to is this: Grab your popcorn, because the Brett Favre saga is far from over.

Until Next Time

-The Jazzy One


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