Tell me again, why is it that we, as a general public, still give a crap about this guy? He’s had ONE good season since 2003. Trust me, I’ve been in Packer country that whole time, and Favre and the pack caught lightning in a bottle that year, being in the right place at the right time to take advantage of a weak division, and healthy players to get to the NFC Championship game.

But the will he or won’t he drama, the holding of franchises hostage, this thing has been going on for years, it’s about time somebody demanded that this guy quit screwing around and just make a damn decision.

And, I’ll say it again, I hope he does sign with the Minnesota Vikings, because a) any warm body under center is capable of taking that squad to the playoffs this year, b) no warm body will make them win a super bowl ring, and c) as I believe is the case with Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay, the first year when, say, Sage Rosenfels is under center will feature growing pains, the second year and beyond could be special.

THe problem for the Packers was that their defensive players, etc were in place these past couple of years. Had Favre bowed out gracefully in 2006, the first time he made such noises, Rodgers could have led Green Bay to the Super Bowl by now. Their time may have passed. Similarly, Minnesota has the pieces available now, but by the time Favre screws another franchise over another year, Sage gets the learning curve out of the way, and finally fits into the system, that window may pass for the Vikings, too.

So yes, I want Favre in a Vikings uniform this year, because I believe he’ll do the franchise more harm than good.

Detroit papers are slow ;-)

My best friend’s wife is a huge Packers fan…..UGH. She went so far as to buy him a NYJ’s Favre jersey for Christmas last year. He said if the Vikings sign Favre, he will buy ME a Vikings Farve jersey and a ticket to Lambeau to go with him to root for the Bears when the Packers host them next season….lol. I said, “Dude….we better go in there packing if we expect to get out alive”. LOL.

Between Backus and Raioala the Lions got a couple of holdover “golden boys” that will need to check their attitude at the door along with their aweful play over the last few years. They’ve both supposedly got the tools to get the job done, but they need to focus on smashing D-Lineman in the mouth and not be looking over their shoulder or listening to the boos from the stands. The fact is that neither of those players have played up to their contracts and if they are going to be a part of this rebuilding they’ll have to earn their way back into everyone’s good graces.

This line made me laugh, especially in tandem with the followup sentence from King, “You’re a big fan, and you didn’t even recognize the name of the new Baltimore defensive coordinator.”

Because, I can totally rattle off the last 25 years of that guy’s collegiate coaching career, including the fact that he ditched the Michigan d-coordinator job, just before Michigan won the national championship in order to hook up with Notre Dame, just in time to start their 13 years in a row with no bowl wins streak….but I hadn’t realized that he was now Baltimore’s defensive coordinator.