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Brad Childress To Meet With Brett Favre To Reject Him
Published: May 6, 2009
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Deja vu.
It is defined as the experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously. That just about sums up Brett Favre’s latest cliffhanger soap opera.
Rumors have it that Favre is once again not only interested in changing his mind about retirement, but attempting to gain a spot on the Minnesota Vikings. Only this time the story has a new twist…after his poor performance last season in New York, the desire to have him as quarterback is not as strong as it was at this time last year.
Reports had it that Brad Childress is flying to Mississippi to meet with Favre about becoming the starting quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings. However, with recent news that no flights have been scheduled of any Vikings personnel to Mississippi, some facts have come to fruition.
A highly ranking official with the Vikings has informed sources that Childress just simply doesn’t want Brett Favre on his team. “There was a time last season where he did,” said the source. “But you have to realize that the Vikings made the playoffs last season, something Brett Favre wasn’t able to do.”
In fact, the reason why Childress hasn’t booked any flight to see Favre is that he doesn’t want to waste the time and money of the organization to meet with him. “Childress told me that if Favre wants to meet with him, Favre has to book his own flight and come up to Minnesota himself.”
Although Favre could not be reached for comment and still won’t even talk about coming out of retirement (again), a source close to him has said that Favre not only is going to come back, but that he has obtained some left over steroids from Alex Rodriguez in order to bulk up as much as he can before he can legally be tested.
The source went on to say, “If the Vikings don’t want him, there’s plenty of teams that will.” However, immediately after saying this quote, he received a text message from the Detroit Lions saying that they would rather have Daunte Culpepper as their starter, and if that doesn’t work out, Matthew Stafford.
“Fine, whatever,” he responded. “With the way Aaron Rodgers destroyed the Green Bay Packers last season, they must be dying to have Favre back.” Almost like clockwork, another text was received, this time from the Packers organization. The text read as follows: “We are very happy with Aaron Rodgers’ development. At least with him, we have a quarterback who knows how to use indoor plumbing unlike (the Mississippi native) Favre.”
“Well, there’s always the A.F.C..” Before getting another text telling him otherwise, the source turned off his phone and escaped the building. However, certain reporters have gotten answers from some of those teams.
The Buffalo Bills say they won’t bring in Favre because due to their geographical closeness to that of the Jets. They witnessed all the discarded Brett Favre Jets jerseys on the streets, and don’t want to have to deal with picking up and throwing out more Favre jerseys after he retires again.
The Cleveland Browns won’t bring him on for the obvious reason that their new head coach, Eric Mangini, coached Favre last season in New York. “It’s one thing to have a coach wear diapers during a game,” a rep of Mangini’s said. “But to have your quarterback not only wearing them but going through them during a game is not worth it.”
He went on to say that even with some of his throws, you could tell exactly when he made a no-no in his uniform.
There are some more teams that could have interest in Favre…as a backup. Although Kyle Orton is still unproven, the Denver Broncos still would have him first on the depth chart. In addition, with Chris Simms signed as the No. 2, Favre would have to compete for a job as the third stringer.
What about the Raiders? No, having a quarterback who’s older than the Skeletor like owner isn’t such a good idea.
The Cincinnati Bengals have recently had some financial problems, and say that if Favre is willing to donate his entire salary from last year’s stint with the Jets, they would consider naming him their starter until Carson Palmer fully heals. Then once Palmer is able to play, Favre would have to put down another payment.
So it seems Favre may not be playing again in the NFL, at least not the way he wants to. He may have to make a few concessions, the least of which a starting job, but he shouldn’t worry. If Matt Millen can get a broadcasting job, Favre should at least be able to get something. And once the Arena Football League resumes play, there’s always that option.
Roger Goodell To Have Super Bowl on the Moon, And Move Games to Tuesday
Published: April 29, 2009
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Ever since Roger Goodell became commissioner of the National Football League, he’s made it his mission to leave his mark. Right from the start he instituted the NFL player conduct policy, also known as the Pacman Jones policy, as well as placing big “C”‘s on the jerseys of the captains of the team, and even moving the Pro Bowl to Miami next season.
Goodell’s latest ideas include upping the amount of regular season games to 17, and even moving the Super Bowl to London, England to be played President’s Day weekend. Now, having a three day weekend would be nice for Super Bowl Sunday, but doesn’t that mean the season wouldn’t begin until October? Unless the Super Bowl teams want to have a month long bye instead of a week.
Also, with 17 games, that means that every team will either play with one more home game or one less. How are they going to decide which team to shaft? Then again, they already shaft at least one team with waste of time European game. Seriously, how much money does he think he can eek out of it in Europe? Does he have a deal with the Queen?
Feeling he hadn’t made enough changes yet, he decided to move the Pro Bowl not only to Miami, but a week BEFORE the Super Bowl. Before the Super Bowl? What’s next, is he going to make it mandatory that those elected to the Pro Bowl must play, including those players who will be playing in the Super Bowl the week after?
Has it occurred to him that the best players who get voted to the Pro Bowl end up in the Super Bowl, and therefore will have no interest in the Pro Bowl at all? Oh, and just so he could make another change, he declared the Pro Bowl will go back to Honolulu the next year. Then why even move it there in the first place? It’s like presenting someone with a meal, letting them sniff it, and then taking it away.
It’s kind of amazing how Goodell is planning all of these major changes, yet still can’t seem to solve the simple ones, such as getting the NFL Network into more homes. Or is he more interested in England getting to see games?
As from the headline, you can tell where I think he wants to take the league. I can see him planning secret trips to the moon to construct a football field. And who knows, he might just move football from Sundays to a week night. Or he might not even have it on a designated day. He might just have games on every single day.
Now I know everyone in power wants to leave a legacy, and after Paul Tagliabue retired, he definitely had to strike quick to try to erase him. But there’s a difference in change and improvement. You shouldn’t change just because you can.
Goodell, leave the game alone. Sixteen games works. The Super Bowl the first week of February works. And if you move the Super Bowl to another country, you should be branded a traitor and forced to dress up in a redcoat for the rest of your life.
