NFL: Vikings did not tamper
August 4th, 2008 – 3:17 PM by Judd ZulgadUpdates: There is an interesting injury update regarding defensive end Brian Robison at the end of this blog. … Also the Packers just sent out a press release saying that Brett Favre has been placed on the active roster.
MANKATO — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell ruled this afternoon that the Vikings did not tamper with Brett Favre as the Packers claimed. The NFL has been investigating the claim for more than a week.
In his letter to the Packers and Vikings, Goodell said that, while those involved acknowledged conversations between Brett Favre and Vikings coaches, “None of those conversations suggest that Favre was soliciting a job or that other teams were soliciting his services.”
Update: The Vikings issued a statement that read: “We respect the Commissioner’s decision and the thoroughness of the process. We provided the league with all information requested so they could be comprehensive in their decision making. Our focus has been, and continues to be, on our football team and having a succesful season.”
The Packers alleged last month that the Vikings tampered with Favre by having inappropriate dialogue with the quarterback, who was trying to get his release from Green Bay and wanted to play for the Vikings. Favre is good friends with Vikings offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell, his former position coach in Green Bay, and also knows Vikings coach Brad Childress.
A statement from the Packers read: “Based on the information that we had, the Packers thought it was appropriate to bring this matter to the league’s attention. We respect the Commissioner’s investigation of this matter and we now consider it closed.”
Favre has rejoined the Packers and been reinstated by the league. He reportedly will get the chance to compete for the Packers’ starting job against Aaron Rodgers, despite the fact Green Bay officials had said Rodgers was their guy and they had moved on.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported today that the Packers had approached the Vikings to let them know Favre was available but Vikings coach Brad Childress denied today that there had been contact.
The Packers said Sunday that coach Mike McCarthy has a plan for his quarterbacks and will discuss it in a news conference at 8:15 tonight in Green Bay.
ROBISON SITUATION
Defensive end Brian Robison said he was told by doctors today that he has a vein in the calf area of his left leg that he “has to get worked on.” Robison, the Vikings’ backup right end to Jared Allen, said he should know more either later today or tomorrow morning but that surgery is a possibility.
“It’s been something that has been there for a while and it’s just kind of flared up on me,” he said. “I have a varicose vein on my left leg. It’s something they are looking at and we went and got it looked at again today. So we’ll find out tomorrow what we need to do with it.”
Robison said he has had the vericose vein since high school and that it has gotten worse in the last couple of days. “It will keep me out a little bit of time if I have surgery on it but it’s not going to be substantial, it’s not going to go halfway into the season or anything like that,” Robison said. “It will be maybe a two- or three-week ordeal and I’ll be back at it.”
Robison was back in Mankato this afternoon after spending the morning visiting a doctor in the Twin Cities.
78 Responses to "NFL: Vikings did not tamper"
wow…….. That’s as thrilling as a TJoke non pass jump pass pass….
FIRE CHILDRESS NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HA HA………….
things will get interesting now.
This is not painting a very good picture for the GB front office.
Though it’s unclear where this new was first reported (we think it was Sirius NFL Radio), Adam Schefter of NFL Network confirms that the “Minneapolis” (thanks, Greta) Vikings won’t be punished for allegedly tampering with Packers quarterback Brett Favre.
The Packers made the charge last month based on their belief that Favre had excessive communications with Vikings offensive coordinator Darell Bevell, who previously was Favre’s quarterbacks coach in Green Bay.
Favre recently admitted that he talked both to Bevell and to Vikings head coach Brad Childress, but Favre denied that they enticed him to play for the Vikings.
And thus the clusterfudge that is the Packers organization looks foolish yet again in this protracted string of gaffes and embarrassments.
UPDATE: Here’s what the Packers have to say about the situation, “Based on the information that we had, the Packers thought it was appropriate to bring this matter to the league’s attention. We respect the Commissioner’s investigation of this matter and we now consider it closed
What about my questions about the defenses in training camp mr JUDD?!?!?
Maybe the Vikings should file idiot charges against the Pukers management.
Seriously.. The Pack have enough issues to deal with. They are probably happy this tampering thing is over with as well. What a bunch of morons..
If the vikes file idiot charges they will also have to file against Chilli…
TJoke blows..
FIRE CHILDRESS NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So either the Packer’s FO made this up or Roger G decided there was not enough evidence to prove tampering. Either way I am glad to know the Vikings have been officially cleared of making inappropriate verbal contact with Brett.
It would have been a bad mark on our team to be associated with that, and instead the bad mark clearly falls on the Pack. Like them or not, I have given that franchise a lot of credit for how they have operated…up until now. Favre is not helping the situation, granted, but they have made mistake after mistake in how they’ve handled the whole situation.
Also, with the way Chili, Rick and Co have drafted the last 3 years, that 5th round pick is worth more than the average team’s 5th rounder.
Go Chili!! I’ve got your back, T-Jack! (I like that as a chant the first home game…”We’ve got yer back, T-Jack!!!!”
This just shows you how stupid Sconnies are.
The Homers are represented in Duluth!
Freakin duuthfan’s brain is obviously frozen…
FIRE CHILDRESS NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What have our 5th roud picks done??
Yea the triangle really stole Cook & TJoke in round 2…. Oh wait I get it… he stole those 5th round picks in round 2…
FIRE CHILDRESS NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Buster, your sad excuse after sad excuse for a comment here is only serving as a testiment to your own idiocy. Translation #1: You are your own worst enemy in your fight to try and be funny/witty. Trabslation #2: You, Buster, are an idiot.
In the words of Walter Matthau, “…why don’t you do the world a favor by pulling your bottom lip over your head and swallow.”
We’ve got yer back, T-Jack!!
We need more Buster haters.
He blows!
FIRE BUSTER NOW!!!!!!!!
for the record…i did tamper…just don’t tell anybody…but i did
Lets see how the draft went:
1st: Chad Greenway
1st: Adrian Peterson
2nd: Cedric Griffin
2nd: Ryan Cook
2nd: Tavaris Jackson
2nd: Sidney Rice
2nd: Tyrell Johnson
3rd: Marcus McCauley
4th: Ray Edwards
4th: Brian Robison
5th: Greg Blue
5th: Aundrae Allison
5th: John David Booty
5th: Letroy Guion
6th: Rufus Alexander
6th: John Sullivan
6th: Jaymar Johnson
7th: Tyler Thigpen
7th: Chanlder Williams
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We surrenders 2-3rds and a 1st for JAllen. This is a pretty impressive draft resume here.. Alot of players are contributors and even one in Tyler Thigpen was covetted enough to not get through waivers… This team is building in the right direction…
Tamperer.
Good… now SHUT UP! No more tampering charges to keep referring to…OMG!
What is a trabslation?
“We’ve got yer back, T-Jack!!!” = lamest sports chant ever
EA Sports has decided to stop production and re-call from the soon to hit the shelves Madden 09 until the Favre decision has been resolved. Said a spokesman from the game producing giant. This year Madden 09 originally had Bret Favre on the cover but has decided to make the change and put Roger Goodell on the cover.
Right Ed ! ! !
They have to STHU ! ! !
(someone trabslated that for me)
Friends do not let friends become Vikings.
We’ve got yer back, T-Jack!!!
I can almost picture it (and I say “almost”, cause if I truely could I would be violently ill right now)…Buster sitting in his Mom and Dad’s basement in his leather underwear, fevorishly typing away “FIRE CHILDRESS NOW!!!!!!!!!!”.
Better get out the mink oil to soften those babies up…
Buster, really, you not wanted here (or course, by me saying that it will give you a burning sense to want to stay even more, I realize…so sorry everyone else). But eventhough I do not have the time to post here “regularly”, I will be back from time-to-time to read other’s foootball-related comments, post about my favorite team in a mature, respective manner to those who want the same atmosphere…and to remind you that you are not wanted here. And it will work because I am smarter than you…and because my passion for Vikings football will outlast your need to type immature comments from your “basement fortress”.
Bones…nice buddy. Very clever to point out a typo.
Bones…tho, now that I think about it, it is a pretty lame chant. LOL But still, it might catch on.
expodis - those 5th rounders have yet to prove themselves. Who was it that said our 5th rounders are worth more than other teams 5th rounders?
2MT…I did. And maybe not literally, but my point was that the Vikes have drafted well the last 3 years, overall.
Would you agree?
2MT, that would be the idiot known as duluth…
duluth wants TJokes back… sounds like he’s ready to mount…
FIRE CHILDRESS NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I goota run…chat with y’all soon. 
We’ve got yer back, T-Jack!!!
Hello Bones!
I see the wusser is back…. freakin loser…
FIRE CHILDRESS NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, saw, Buster’s last comment there…looks like I hit a nerve. Good…
Later
Hey wis how come you don’t post as wisvike?? What a bag of puss…
FIRE CHILDRESS NOW !!!!!!!!!!!
So far only Aundrae Allison from that 5th rd class. In all qualifying options, he was ranked 3rd in KO returns with a 28.7 average. And I mean come on.. That KO return against Detroit, who the heck actually things to stiff arm someone when they are behind you, so you can slow the defender down and have his own player run into him to take both out of the play.. pure genious..
Hopefully this is all a prelude to seeing #4 in PURPLE trot out on the field under center for the Vikes on that historic night in Lambeau and light up the Pack.
Who’s got the most potential of the 5 2nd Rounders? Rice should make a big jump this year.
That has got to be the dumbest friggin cheer I’ve heard in a long time.
T-Joke has the talent level for maybe 3rd string in the CFL.
Bring in Favre NOW!!!!
Consider the source, FVF…
FIRE CHILDRESS NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Suck it, Packers.
So Robison has granny legs???
FIRE CHILDRESS NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!
8:15 p.m. Be there:
This is Wolf Blitzer in The Situation Room. We are going LIVE to Green Bay where Coach Mike Mccarthy is about to announce his plan for his quarterbacks…
Seems like a good time for an Opion Poll:
What is the Packer QB plan?
a. Favre starts
b. Rodgers starts
c. Open competition: let the best man win.
d. Co-starters! Favre gets odd weeks (or quarters), Rodgers get even
e. Trade to acquire T-Jack (groundwork laid through secret text messages)
f. Other _________________
f. Who gives a sh!t??
FIRE CHILDRESS NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Mike Florio on August 4, 2008, 4:59 p.m. EDT
The Green Bay Packers have announced that quarterback Brett Favre has been placed on the team’s activer roster. This development means that Favre passed his physical and his conditioning test.
To make room for Favre, cornerback Condrew Allen has been placed on injured reserve, with a knee injury.
Coach Mike McCarthy is supposedly meeting with Favre on Monday evening, and McCarthy thereafter will meet with the media. Unless Ari Fleischer is the one who’ll be standing at the podium.
We do. To spell it out: If the Pack has gotten spooked by Rodgers’ shaky performance in camp so far, then Favre is their starter again and G.B. just got tougher. If the Pack is after all committed to “moving on,” Bert is still on the market. And he might come our way.
berts on the cover of madden, no matter what my gut feeling is that he is gonna wish he stayed retired when this year is over regardless of who he plays for
the circus is in town for weeks to come. While we might have some jokers and clowns like chilly and tjack. We have nothing as cancerous as bert aka fidel farve
Rodgers is worse than…or just as bad as TJack and GB wanted Farve to retire?? What a bunch of idiots, the are now officially crowned Idiots of the North. Farve will be starting against us unfortunately Mon night. Were stuuck with TJack and all those guys on his back….DAMMIT!
I wish I got paid a gazillion dollars to do this:
The Vikings’ Monday afternoon practice concentrated on special teams. The session was so exciting that Sidney Rice and Darren Sharper were engaged in a game of passing accuracy, seeing which one could hit the pylon from 25 yards away. For the record, Rice won the contest, hitting the pylon twice in eight tries. Sharper was unsuccessful in his attempts (and the fact that a reporter was documenting it might be an indication of the excitement level at the special teams practice). Several other players were trying to throw a ball into a garbage can from about the same distance.
And the Cry Wolf Packers should be penalized for wasting everyones time on these BS allegations.
A few more notes from today’s practice:
Johnson and Darius Reynaud were the main punt returners for the session, but they were mostly there for the benefit of the gunners trying to down punts inside the 10-yard line.
Safety Eric Frampton and receiver Sidney Rice both attempted to keep the ball out of the end zone on one punt, and they made contact with each other while allowing the ball to get past them and into the end zone. However, each of them rebounded to individually stop ensuing punts from getting past the goal line.
Chris Kluwe got one punt to drop dead at the 2-yard line.
Vikings owners Zygi, Mark, Lenny and Jeffrey Wilf all attended the afternoon session.
Did they practice caching the ball and stepping out on the one yard line?? That worked so well this year, or did Chilli practice his challenge flag throw?? You know when the ref puts the ball one centemeter to far back on second and one, we’ll need to have those important challenges…umm challenged.
LMAO at high
Those are the types of things that we can laugh about now, but we were all screaming at the TVs last season. Let’s hope for no repeats.
The comedy show that is the Minnesota Vikings is what I watched last year, is there a sequel…or a third season I mean…lets wait and see, if you put clown music to TJ’s performance’s it really is funny to watch.
Best chance for vikes to get to a SB is a three way trade
Bert to Tampa Gross Garcia to minny
He has a sore leg but he is way better than tjack- he throw two ints last year. He knows the WCO played in the same one in philly and in a different one in tampa. We don’t have galloway but our wr situation is better than the one in tampa and he can hit open wr’s when there is 8 in the box. Tjack has some years left in his contract ( not that I think he isn’t more than back up material althought i would love to proven wrong on that)
Garcia to vikes = superbowl contenders
evryone wins in that scenario, no mixed feeling about cheering for farve, no worrying about the madden jinx . No media circus Just vikes concentrating on getting to the playoffs then once there the next round until we go to play the pats in the superbowl
Mont, you left out what GB get from MN in that deal… they’d probably demand Chester Taylor, our next two first rounders, and that Chili shave his face.
MANKATO, Minn. — Vikings defensive end Brian Robison has a varicose vein on his left leg that, he said, could require surgery.
“It’s been something that’s been there for a while,” Robison said today after having the leg examined by doctors in the Twin Cities. “It’s just kind of flared up on me, and we’ll find out more about what’s going on tomorrow.”
Robison said the vein is in the calf area and that he has had it since high school.
“Obviously, the last week or so, it’s gotten irritated; and the last couple of days, it’s gotten a little bit worse,” he said. “We need to get it checked out and see where we go from there.”
Robison said he expected to learn later today or Tuesday whether surgery would be necessary, but that it wouldn’t be anything major.
“It’ll keep me out a little bit of time if I have surgery on it, but it’s not going to be substantial,” he said. “It’s not going to go halfway into the season or anything like that. It’ll be maybe a two- or three-week ordeal, and (I’ll) be back at it.”
When defensive tackle Pat Williams signed his contract extension with the Vikings 11 months ago, in many ways, it was a show of faith in the organization.
The Vikings were coming off a 6-10 season under their first-year coach, had a young quarterback projected to be the full-time starter for the foreseeable future, and there was no way to know if the team could pull it all together soon.
Now it appears the 12-year veteran’s decision is paying off. After several big offseason signings by the Vikings, Williams believes this will be the year he returns to the playoffs for the first time since 1999 when he played with Buffalo.
“Going into last season, I talked to Coach (Brad Childress), and he said he was going to add some pieces, but I didn’t know what pieces,” Williams said. “I know we needed a piece here, a piece there, but I didn’t know we were going to add big Jared Allen. I was happy, way happy.”
The Vikings are considered a team on the rise, and if everything goes well, a possible Super Bowl contender.
Williams has Allen lining up at right end, an edge rusher to pressure the quarterback. Tarvaris Jackson is entering his second full season at quarterback, armed with a new downfield receiving threat in Bernard Berrian. Free safety Madieu Williams is strong in coverage and was signed to bolster a defense that ranked No. 1 against the run but last against the pass.
It’s easy to say Williams made the right decision by staying in Minnesota. But
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at the time, he couldn’t have known what would happen.
“Everybody thought it was about the money,” said Williams, who signed a three-year, $22 million extension. “It wasn’t all about the money. I just wanted to get treated right. And I wanted to stay next to Kevin (Williams). I looked at every team in the league, and they don’t have no D-tackles like Kevin.”
At one point during training camp, it appeared contract negotiations had broken down and no deal would be reached. But Childress, who had publicly stated his desire to grant Williams an extension, gave Williams his support.
“He looked me eye to eye and said, ‘Pat we’re going to get a deal, don’t worry about it.’ ” Williams said of Childress. “So I didn’t. Then (later), he called me and said everything’s done. He gave me his word, so I’ll play any day for him.”
Early on, the relationship between Williams and Childress faced a challenge during the 2006 training camp, the coach’s debut with the team. Williams reported to training camp weighing more than the team’s stated goal for him. Childress put Williams, one of the team’s leaders, on the physically unable to perform list for about a week.
“Everybody thought it was kind of bad between us, but it wasn’t bad,” Williams said. “I don’t blame Coach. Everything was my fault. I didn’t come in (weighing) what they told me to come in at. Everybody thought I was mad at coach. I wasn’t mad at coach.”
Childress and Williams quickly developed a mutual respect for one another.
“I talk to other guys in the locker room, so he sees I’m a leader,” said Williams, who at 35 is the oldest player on the Vikings roster. “All the young guys always come to me for info and what to do. I wasn’t drafted, so everybody wants to hear my story. I always talk to them and tell them what to do and what not to do.
“He knows I work hard. I’m always here in the offseason. He saw that in me.”
The fact that Williams plays one of the most physically demanding positions on the field also commands respect, along with his back-to-back Pro Bowl selections.
“I certainly have respect for the job he does and the environment he plays in in there,” Childress said. “Not everybody can do that. He embraces it.”
Defensive end Ray Edwards noted that Williams’ lighthearted attitude with teammates, young and old, make him a unifying force in the locker room.
Added linebacker Chad Greenway: “You respect a guy that’s stayed around for the love of the game. He wants to be in the playoffs. He wants the chance to get in the Super Bowl and get a win. I think that’s what we’re all really striving for. At the same time, he’s been doing it longer than most of us have. He can certainly appreciate it, probably more than we can.”
ak they could have Bollinger and a 5th or
ferrott and a 7th rounder
no chester!
although I doubt we could keep him signed when his contract runs out
Chester is very valuable, and I was being sarcastic. However, I think Chester only has this season and next season left on his contract, so a post season/pre-draft trade of Taylor might make sense when the time comes. By then Peterson will be a proven back, and adding a youngster thru the draft wouldn’t be as big of a down-grade.
[…] Brian Robison is facing the possibility of surgery to repair a funky vein in his left leg. As Robison explained it: It’s been something that has been there for a while and it’s just kind of flared up on me. I have a varicose vein on my left leg. It’s something they are looking at and we went and got it looked at again today. So we’ll find out tomorrow what we need to do with it. […]
Pukers sign ryan grant to a 4 year 30 million dollar contract….he might end up as one of the biggest busts in puker history
I agree Monc. Grant benefited from coming in halfway through a season where opposing teams had already decided that the Pack had no running game at all. He also benefitedd from Favre and one of the NFLs better WR crews. He’ll sink like a rock now that people know his name.
especially if rodgers ends up as starter he might see some stacked boxes..something he hasn’t seen before
guys way down the depth chart rise up all the time. He could barely hold a spot in New York and would have never started in GB if it weren’t for injuries. Teams played 4 to 5 dbs at a time against them. this time around I don’t think they get too
colt brennan and Quinn gray had good games today
last night
My name says it all. With that said, I want to apologize to you Vikings fans for the tampering charge even being brought up in the first place. In my opinion, those charges were/are a smokescreen to buy the Packers organization time in how to deal with Brett Favre. Frankly, as a Packers fan, I am very embarrassed the charges were even made n the first place. I knew nothing would come of those charges, and the whole tampering charge makes Ted Thompson, and the Packers organization, seem vindictive. Again, I am sorry. Go Pack!!!
I thought Quinn Gray looked awful. But Colt was surprisingly efficient, even though he was facing scrubs. I wouldn’t mind seeing JDB have a pre-season opener like that.
Big of you, HardCore. Most of the Packers fans we get in here are obnoxious mouth-breathing trolls. We won’t hold that or the tampering charge against you.
But Week One, all bets are off.
HardCore - should that last line be GoPackGo?
VS - there are even a few so-called purple fans in that group…
I think you all know what I mean when I say, same old buster same old entry. Dude you need to work on your creativity. Also you need to support your team and not be an idiot. Would you rather have McCarthy? Maybe Linehan? Look at the other coached that were hired that year and you tell me who you would have. At least there is a diffrent attitude with this team than in the years of the love boat. Give it some time ahole.
FIRE BUSTER NOW!!!!!
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