Anyone who didn’t see this coming is…well…a fool. There’s just no other way to put it.
According to WCCO.com in Minnesota, Brett Favre is on way to Minnesota right now to sign a contract with the Minnesota Vikings, which will apparently be announced later today. According to Jason Cole of Yahoo! Sports, the contract will be a 1-year deal worth $12 million.
To say that this was inevitable might be the understatement of the 2009 NFL season.
Of course, I didn’t know it would happen quite this soon after Favre (once again) professed to be retired. But I did predict after Favre’s latest retirement proclamation that he would return at some point this season. I don’t say this to pat myself on the back, because it was really just stating the obvious. I say it merely to further reinforce the idiocy of anyone who thought Favre was actually retired.
Somewhere this morning, Sagevaris Jacksonfels is banging his head into a wall repeatedly. Not coincidentally, many NFL fans are probably doing the same thing.
Thanks to ProFootballTalk for discussing the “rampant” rumors about Favre’s this morning. Not that it would have taken long to find this out elsewhere of course. With Michael Vick, Steven Strasburg, and all of the other big sports stories out of the way now, Favre will have the attention all to himself. And something tells me that’s probably the way he likes it.
But, at least we got all of the speculation out of the way and we can now enjoy Favre on the football field again. I’ve always said that I hope he comes back because games just seem more exciting when he’s playing in them…whether he’s playing well or poorly. The annoying part is all of the offseason waffling and mumbo-jumbo that goes along with it.
So we’ll have to deal with 24-48 hours of the typical media BS that accompanies each and every twist and turn in the Favre Offseason Soap Opera. But once the dust settles, just remember that Brett Favre will now be playing in Green Bay against the Packers this season. I know it’s been another annoying offseason, but won’t it all be worth it for those three hours of pure drama?
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