Favre retiring (for today)

[Rosie]

This is an embarrassment. A huge, flippin' embarrassment.

*sigh*

[/extremely disgusted Vikings fan]

 

[Gutter]

 

[Flying Headbutt]

This is not Detroit, man! This is the Super Bowl!

 

[Armchair_QB]

Sorry, don't see how either one of these are a bad thing.

 

[JNEWFIFTY]

As a Jets fan, is it wrong that I hope Calvin Pace blindsides him and ends his career when the teams meet Week 5 MNF? Does that make me a bad person?

 

[93Devil]

The only suprise will be if he does not horribly **** the bed at the end of the season, and thus beaking the hearts of Viking fans everywhere.

 

[Blitz]

I predicted this last February, and will stick with it:

Saints keep Brees healthy, they will repeat.
If not the Saints, then it will be Minn. v. Indy in Super Bowl
(I also predicted he'd return. Hell, we all knew he'd be back, didn't we?)

 

[exmediahack]

If the Vikings avoid starting out 0-2 (at NO, vs. MIA), they should be alright.

I'm hesitant to anoint the Vikings as a real player in the NFC and that's just from past experience. Far too often, when I've seen talented teams that suffered cruel playoff losses - either crushing last-second defeats or shocking blowout where they "didn't show up. (The 2009 and 1998 Vikings are the former, the 2000 Vikings are the latter), they can keep it together for the first few weeks of the next season but at the first sign of adversity...it falls apart like a Fiat.

Recent evidence:
1998 Packers
1999 Vikings
2001 Vikings
2005 Packers (maybe that was the culmination of the 2002-03-04 losses)
2008 Packers
2008 Cowboys
1996 Chiefs
1998 Chiefs
2004 Chiefs
2001 Titans
2004 Titans
2009 Titans
2003 Raiders (they've been in a tailspin since the Super Bowl loss)

The Colts and Chargers seem to be the only teams immune to this in recent years, along with the 1997 Broncos. Even after humiliating home losses in the playoffs, they bounce right back, win their division and set themselves up for the next year's missed field goal or killer interception at home in January. No drop off for them.

As for the Vikings, Favre will be 41 but his offensive line will also be a bit older. Will he go 33 TD/7 INT again? Not as many breathers on the schedule - the Vikings could easily turn 0-2 into 2-5, that is why those games are so critical.

The second it goes sideways (and it probably will in those first 7 games at some point), will Favre be the rallying point? Or will any groundswell for a mobile quarterback take over? Favre has had a hard time putting together two great years in a row. That would be my big red flag for the Vikings.

Yes, he is their best option -- but they need to get to Halloween with a .500 mark. Not sure about that.

 

[farmerjerome]

Hey, anyone know if Brett Favre got out of bed on the left side or right side this morning?

Which side was Peter King sleeping on?

Bottom?

 

[Starman]

In the GMAFB department, Favre claims he didn't make his mind up until the 3-man pandering team from Eden Prairie showed up Monday.

 

[JackReacher]

Gregggggg is on fiya!!! this week, just hitting on all cylinders....

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/13786654/dont-blame-brett-when-he-isnt-beating-the-dead-horse

 

[Starman]

Gregggggg is on fiya!!! this week, just hitting on all cylinders....

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/13786654/dont-blame-brett-when-he-isnt-beating-the-dead-horse

Disingenuous trolling bull**** in Doyel's now-customary schtick of sanctimonously baiting "everyone else" in the media.

While Favre has plenty of probably unwitting (and certainly witless -- yes ESPN that means you) co-conspirators in the media, in every rendition of this ****ing fandango it has been none other than Brett Favre who could have ended it at any time by saying, a) "I am retiring" (and sticking to it), or b) "I am reporting to camp on xxx date."

 

[JackReacher]

Sure, if you want him to announce one way or another before he's made up his mind. Yeah, he could have done that, I suppose.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Sure, if you want him to announce one way or another before he's made up his mind. Yeah, he could have done that, I suppose.

Yes, I'm sure he didn't really make up his mind until the last couple of days, with that visit from teammates giving him the final push.

What a mental torture this must have been for Brett! But his teammates need him!

So he returns in glory, to judge the living and the dead.

 

[JackReacher]

Ok.

 

[Gutter]

So how much was Brett fined for reporting late?

 

[Machine Head]

Brett Favre knew there would be skeptical looks and snickers, so perhaps that's why he waited until near the end of his 33-minute news conference Wednesday to inform the masses that this season would be his last.

That's right. A guy who has retired twice -- after the 2007 and 2008 seasons, only to return before ever missing a regular-season game -- announced he would not be back in 2011.


Play the video also. Pretty good:

http://www.startribune.com/sports/vikings/101040924.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiU9PmP:QiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

 

[Gutter]

Good to know that after Harvin was driven away in an ambulance after going unconscious, they continue with 10 more plays at Favre's suggestion.

No one is as committed as Favre to that team, not even Mr. Noodle.