Well, what an early birthday present for me, huh? In his dual role as savior and Anti-Christ, Brett Favre is officially a member of the Minnesota Vikings.
In all these years, I never, ever thought that those words would cross my keyboard, but there they are. Everyone that I've talked to about this since the story developed yesterday afternoon assumed I would have my reaction all sorted out and everything by this point. But that would be a wrong assumption.
To be honest, I thought I was prepared for this to take place, despite the fact that everybody thought the whole situation was over. However, when it comes to Favre, nothing is over until I guess he decides it is.
I wish I had something deeply profound to say about this whole thing. . . but, to be honest, I really don't at the moment. I have a lot of questions that are swirling around my head about this whole ordeal. But let me address the one thing that I know for sure as of right now.
Brad Childress and Zygi Wilf have, in poker terminology, gone all-in with this move. The 2009 season won't end in a middle-of-the-road fashion for the Minnesota Vikings. It's either going to end incredibly well. . . or incredibly bad. The Vikes are either going to the promised land, or Brad Childress is going to be looking for a job come next January and the Vikings will be looking to start the process of rebuilding the franchise around Adrian Peterson.
The Vikings are playing their 49th season of NFL football in 2009. Yours truly has been a fan for 21 of those seasons. I can't think of any season that started with more intrigue than this one, and it's all because of this one move. And, honestly, that's all my mind can come up with at the moment. Rest assured there will be more in the days to come, but for some reason it's taking me an inordinate amount of time to get my head wrapped around this.
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