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[url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5150940]Brett Favre to require surgery on ankle to play for Minnesota Vikings in 2010 - ESPN[/url]

Well every year it seems we always discuss the chances of Brett Favre playing or retiring. I think he has the surgery and plays next season, what do you folks think?

FAVRE WATCH 2010 LOL

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Well, he has to have some excuse for not attending training camp and playing in the preseason. He'll be there on opening day for sure.

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It wouldn't be an offseason without a Favre watch. I definitely think he's playing. We'll see the same situation as last year, he'll show up at the end of camp.

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His ankle looked nasty at the end last year. I am sure he comes back, but whether he survives another year? I don't know about that.

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It just would not be a real offseason without Favre drama.

If he wants to play, he needs the surgery. If he wants to walk in his 60's, he'll have the surgery. Therefore I predict that he will have the surgery and return to the Vikes.

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[quote=Lotus;697037]It just would not be a real offseason without Favre drama.

If he wants to play, he needs the surgery. If he wants to walk in his 60's, he'll have the surgery. Therefore I predict that he will have the surgery and return to the Vikes.[/quote]

I don't know if, even with the surgery, he will be able to walk in his 60's. His body is gonna be ravaged for life

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We all know ESPN donkeys get a hard-on talking about the Favre so we'll continue to suffer. I guess if I'm a Vikings fan I'd want to know what the SOB is planning to do. What I do know is that without him the Vikings are no better than an 8 win team.

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it's like playing he loves me he loves me not with flower petals for middle school girls

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The season is what, 4 months away? His timing of announcing this need for surgery is curious.

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Yeah.. like he just found out yesterday, right?

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[quote=tryfuhl;697072]Yeah.. like he just found out yesterday, right?[/quote]

Why yes, yes he did!

:laughing2

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[quote=Mattyk;697056]The season is what, 4 months away? His timing of announcing this need for surgery is curious.[/quote]

He many never get mentioned in the same breath as Allen Iverson, but AI pissed Larry Brown & philly mgmt. off big time years ago when he decided to have surgery just before camp opened. He missed camp & the early part of the regular season.

I would just love for Farve to say "training camp? training camp? we talkin bout training camp?"

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[quote=backrow;697093]Why yes, yes he did!

:laughing2[/quote]
Wait are you being serious? I highly doubt it if so.

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Who's Brett Favre?

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I don't really blame Brett for this annual circus, he makes his decision when he does. It's the media led by ESPN who has to start hourly Brett Favre updates and discussions for 4 months nonstop.

I'm sure he's not the only older player who takes time to make the decision to come back any given year...but he's the only one we have to hear about day after day after day.

I like the fact he can mock the whole situation on Sear's commercials. :D



Seriously, I get sick of hearing the lead story every hour being "will he play or not!?!?"

There are far better stories they could be wasting their time on.

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[quote=53Fan;697120]Who's Brett Favre?[/quote]

i think he was in something about mary but i'm not sure, name definitley rings a bell though

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They better hope he shows since they passed on Clausen multiple times. There is no doubt in my mind that he will be back. In my opinion he should've retired after last year because unless they win the Super Bowl this year it will be a disappointment.

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[quote=murphy196;697163]They better hope he shows since they passed on Clausen multiple times. There is no doubt in my mind that he will be back. In my opinion he should've retired after last year because unless they win the Super Bowl this year it will be a disappointment.[/quote]

Agreed, he can't end his career like that. He can obviously still play at a high level as one of the best QBs in the league.

Of course, he just has to hope that another season won't end even worse than the last one.

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Damnit, we could have traded Jason Campbell to the Vikings for Adrian Peterson, Percy Harvin, and Steve Hutchinson (well...we probably would have needed to throw Reed Doughty in to make it fair)

Quick, someone figure out how to get Campbell back and start a thread on this possibility!

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[quote=SmootSmack;697168]Damnit, we could have traded Jason Campbell to the Vikings for Adrian Peterson, Percy Harvin, and Steve Hutchinson (well...we probably would have needed to throw Reed Doughty in to make it fair)

[B]Quick, someone figure out how to get Campbell back and start a thread on this possibility[/B]![/quote]

bite your tounge. i do beleive today is the first day there is no campbell thread on the main page

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[quote=Buster;697141]I don't really blame Brett for this annual circus, he makes his decision when he does. It's the media led by ESPN who has to start hourly Brett Favre updates and discussions for 4 months nonstop.

I'm sure he's not the only older player who takes time to make the decision to come back any given year...but he's the only one we have to hear about day after day after day.

I like the fact he can mock the whole situation on Sear's commercials. :D



Seriously, I get sick of hearing the lead story every hour being "will he play or not!?!?"

There are far better stories they could be wasting their time on.[/quote]


The job of mass media is to entertain and keep you focused on trivial crap while real serious issues/problems are pushed back into obscurity. Fact is the 24/7 news/sports cycle is to blame. How much new crap can these stations put out every day, every hour? Not too much, thus they make their own news by "pushing" stories on their viewers.

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Wasn't the mass media that started this thread. Don't want to discuss it, don't start these threads

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[quote=SmootSmack;697168]Damnit, we could have traded Jason Campbell to the Vikings for Adrian Peterson, Percy Harvin, and Steve Hutchinson (well...we probably would have needed to throw Reed Doughty in to make it fair)

Quick, someone figure out how to get Campbell back and start a thread on this possibility![/quote]

:rofl:

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If I were a teammate of this drama king I would just call him out. It's all about him every off season. But Minn. knew what they were getting when they signed up for the side show.

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True I guess we are the mass media!!!!!! Close the thread Smooty!!!! JK!!!!!

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I hope he comes back and plays [B]well[/B].

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[quote=SmootSmack;697198]Wasn't the mass media that started this thread. Don't want to discuss it, don't start these threads[/quote]
Speak for yourself bro, I get people from all sorts of IP ranges coming to view my posts.

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[quote=skinsfan69;697201]If I were a teammate of this drama king I would just call him out. It's all about him every off season. But Minn. knew what they were getting when they signed up for the side show.[/quote]

With Favre comes the drama, but look at his production last year. That's why guys don't call him out. As you say the Vikes knew what they were getting.

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[quote=Mattyk;697296]With Favre comes the drama, but look at his production last year. That's why guys don't call him out. As you say the Vikes knew what they were getting.[/quote]Childress deserves a heck of a lot of credit for this Favre situation. Basically, he decided last year to 1) bite the bullet on his Jackson investment just when he was about to receive the payoff (whatever that might have been), 2) sell out everything to go get Favre, staking his reputation as a HC to what basically amounted to a gimmick, 3) Ignore the advice of all the media types who suggested that it's terrible for locker room chemistry to let Favre play by his own set of rules that the rest of the team is held to a different standard.

And he's been steadfast in his defense of Favre as his QB even as Favre isn't acting like he owes anyone anything. Granted, as soon as Favre gets too old to be effective (and that day is coming eventually...right?), this will all blow up in Childress' face if he doesn't cut the cord before then, but as long as he knows his team and thinks his team is going to win with Favre under center, I think he's found a way around the "having to build a team the right way" mantra.

The Vikings are what Snyder thought the Redskins could be about a decade ago.

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Who cares!! He's an attention whore.

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yea, ESPN is to blame but so is Favre/Childress.

they are the ones that plant these monthly "he's undecided" and "vikes say favre has no timetable" and "childress says favre can take his time."
sure, ESPN sucks them up and "reports" them as "news" but Favre, Childress and the Vikes could come out and say what we all assume: he's planning on coming back. we ALL know that favre/childress spoke and that's his plan and that they'll play the "undecided" game all summer so they both can save face when he skips camp again. if he was really undecided, there would have been more talk about Minny being in the mix for JC or Clausen.

i'm not saying the ankle surgery is a lie, but as someone else pointed out, it will be the perfect excuse for Favre/childress so that he can miss camp with a good reason. last year he technically hadn't signed so everyone was all about the hype and the newness of #4 in purple. but that's gone. he's under contract and as the leader on the field SHOULD BE AT CAMP. but he wont be. so i think they are playing games and i've lost a lot of respect for him. all this shit about how much he loves the game and is The Greatest Teammate just doesn't ring true. go to camp. a vet qb can surely have a lighter load and be excempt from a bunch of stuff, but he should be there. it's crap.

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I wonder if he'll do his "pants on the ground" dance when changing into his surgical gown.

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i also enjoy pointing out....

in that last crippling INT he threw in the NFC Championship game... it wasn't just "oh he shoulda-coulda ran for it instead of forcing the bad pass. watch the clip again, there's a Minn WR standing near the sideline all by himself. so if Bruise Warrior Favre technically couldn't run out of bounds and gain some yards for FG position, he didn't need to. there was guy about yards upfield, standing by the sideline, UNCOVERED, who would have caught it, made it a close FG or first down ( i forget the details) and he coulda stepped out to stop the clock. vikes to the SB. but no, favre fucked it up.

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[quote=Rainy Parade;697565]i also enjoy pointing out....

in that last crippling INT he threw in the NFC Championship game... it wasn't just "oh he shoulda-coulda ran for it instead of forcing the bad pass. watch the clip again, there's a Minn WR standing near the sideline all by himself. so if Bruise Warrior Favre technically couldn't run out of bounds and gain some yards for FG position, he didn't need to. there was guy about yards upfield, standing by the sideline, UNCOVERED, who would have caught it, made it a close FG or first down ( i forget the details) and he coulda stepped out to stop the clock. vikes to the SB. but no, favre fucked it up.[/quote]

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. They wouldn't even have been in that position if it wasn't for him, but yeah that's pile on the blame.

Sorry but it just sounds lame to point out one play like that really proves anything. He had a great year and also played a good game up to that point.

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[quote=Mattyk;697571]Shoulda, coulda, woulda. They wouldn't even have been in that position if it wasn't for him, but yeah that's pile on the blame.

Sorry but it just sounds lame to point out one play like that really proves anything. He had a great year and also played a good game up to that point.[/quote]


no no, you're right... and the "farve fucked it up" was halfway kidding.

and while i dont like favre, i admit he was lightyears better than i thought he'd be in 2009, so hats off to him. but he's still a primadonna attention whore who has thrown 2 crippling INT's to lose conference championship games the last 2 times he's been there. i guess i just wish he'd walk the walk a bit more and just go to camp and not play this undecided BS all summer. the vikes HAD to know his plan before the draft/free agency so for them all to act like he's undecided is just a load of crap. like i said, go to camp, get the star-vet treatment of a light load, but be there to build rapport and timing that might end up helping in a critical situation that gets you to the super bowl.

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The Vikes knew what they were getting when they signed him last year. I could really care less if he shows to camp or not, and obviously the Vikes aren't getting their panties in a bunch about it either.