Favre signing confirmed
August 18th, 2009 – 10:30 AM by Chip ScogginsJudd just received a text from a very good source with confirmation that Brett Favre will sign with the Vikings today and possibly could practice this afternoon.
Favre is expected to land in the Twin Cities anytime now.
Yahoo.com’s Jason Cole is reporting that Favre will receive a one-year contact worth $12 million. Here is his report.
Other things we have learned:
- Favre is expected to practice with the Vikings today. Practice at Winter Park was originally scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. but could be pushed back.
- Sources say that Favre is expected to make his first start on Friday night when the Vikings play host to the Kansas City Chiefs.
70 Responses to "Favre signing confirmed"
YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!
YEEEE HAAAAA !!!!
WELCOME TO MINNESOTA BRETT !!!!
BOOM goes the dynamite.
Wow!!! I’m speechless!!
Holy shnikies!
12 million for one year!
Finally we can some closure to the ‘will he or won’t he’ drama!
Oh, and first!
I suggest we now have a 24-hour period of ripping Brett for all his waffling and indecision, and then we can forget about that and move on to more important things…..
I knew this was coming a few months back when Judd was 99.9 percent SURE Favre would be a Minnesota Viking !!!
WAY TO GO JUDD !!!!
Can we cut TJack now?
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Get him under center right now.
Until it’s ‘out’ out, I won’t believe it.
Sporting News says it will be for two years. Going to love seeing Brett stick it to the Pack twice this year!! Skol Vikes!!
Holy crap!!
I hope he’s been staying in shape.
I hope he and the receivers can get on the same page in a hurry.
I hope Sage handles this, because we might well still need him this season.
I hope he doesn’t change his mind tomorrow — or worse yet, in Week 6.
How many weeks before he changes his mind and re-retires? But then again, even if that happened, he’d change his mind and re-sign.
Well, he got his way… he got to skip training camp (at least the Mankato portion of it anyway).
Where is the trust level? This is great. And by ‘great’ I mean ‘crap’.
well, there goes what would have been a good season.
Hey Sage, great job against Indy - you looked poised, made good decisions, had good numbers. Have I mentioned you’re benched for someone who wasn’t willing to put in any work over the summer?
Percy, Bernard, Sid - I know you’ve all been working on developing a chemistry and timing with our QBs. That’s what offseason is for, right? But you can do it all over again in in the short time left before the season opener. No problem.
Rules? Expectations? Teamwork? Forget what we’ve said the past few years. Show up, don’t show up - makes no difference to us. We’re not in charge here - you players are.
Oh, and did we say the emphasis is keeping possession? Well that was before we hired the guy with the all time interception record.
All I can say is I sure hope Favre is more decisive in the pocket than he is off the field. He collapsed last year, he hasn’t done serious damage in a decade, he comes in way behind the curve of integrating with this team and this system, and he will be a non-stop disruption and distraction.
We’ll be worse with him than without him, and we’ll be one year wasted on the search for a real solution.
KABOOM!!!
YYYYEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t laugh, but I don’t think he should be just handed the starting job. He should have to earn it. But sadly, he probably will be the starter by default.
That loud sound that you just heard, was the Vikings playoff hopes going out the window.
Now do you believe me.
Never question DC in OC.
Go Vikes !
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If you look at the top of this blog, he is starting on Friday. There is no contest here. Just crap.
I’m not laughing Goal Line…I wouldn’t even let Brett play in this weeks game with KC…
Let Sage (T Jack if he is still here) and Booty play against KC this Friday…Brett should sit until week 3 preseason game…He will need to get to know the team…
He still needs to get his practice in…
anybody remember 2007, Pack at Metrodome. What was it 37-0? ummmm, yeaaaahhhhh…. he was not just good, he burned our stadium down and drank our beer and took our women. That was serious damage, I’m glad he’s here.
Need to start naming ’sources’. I don’t trust anyone.
>_> Damn they just spit in Tjacks face
Goal Line, sorry but I laughed.
I AGREE with you, but 12 million for a second stringer? Not gonna happen.
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! let’s make sure Allen and Berrian are healthy as well as the Willaims Wall can play. besides most of the vikings fan the happiest people out there right now is ESPN and Fox for having those games. I wonder if FOX will move the game to primetime???
I hate to say I told you so, but I did.
The whole “I can’t go a full season” thing was just a ploy to skip training camp.
It should be a fun season….look at how Rosenfels moved the team, and with Favre it should be unstoppable.
Given the injuries already, how is he even going to play? I’m guessing injury prior to this Friday.
Also, why now? What has changed?
Looks like T-Jack won’t get a preseason start after all.
south-a-state, I hear ya. But to argue that Bert “hasn’t done serious damage in a decade,” you’d have to overlook 2007, when he passed for 4155 yards and 28 TDs (vs. 15 INTs) and completed 66.5% of his passes. Could Sagevarus even dream of numbers like that? Not saying Bert will be in 2007 form, but unless he’s really lost it, he should be better than what we have.
Shiancoe and Harvin are rubbing their knobs right now…TE’s and slot receivers will have a good year.
Love or hate Brett Favre, this is the most interested I’ve been in seeing the Vikes play in a long time.
T-Joke, don’t let the door hit ya in the ass on the way out….
Brett…Favre coming out and announcing that he was choosing to remain retired several weeks back was obviously premeditated to keep the media circus away from winter park. Favre and the organization had obviously planned all of this, so he could skip camp, yet still get here in time to practice a bit and start a couple of preseason games to get his timing down and gel with his new team mates…
i just threw up in my mouth
Morning Bucky!
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So…my prediction is that if Fav-ray starts versus KC, that the dome will be EASILY sold out in a preseason game. We couldn’t even do that for playoffs people. Bottom line is Ziggy smells a new stadium paid for by our asses in his rented, dilapidated, carpetbag seats.
Judd/Chip ~ Is Booty going to give up his number to Favre ??…Any info on that yet ??
Guten Morgen Bucky!
I was pissed for awhile that he ditched training camp but honestly we now have a QB that can read defenses and audible into the right play. We already run his system, the best pass he throws is the quick slant which is what we run. If he holds up physically this could be huge for us.
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Mornin Ole and Brett
Booty should ask for no less than $100,000. Straight cash, homey.
… morning, bucky.
The plane hasn’t even hit the ground yet and the paper is reporting he’ll start this Friday?
Yippie-Ki-Yay Mother Packers!!!
Morning, Bucky!
I think my Viking season tickets just quadrupled in value!
… when Favre has a sore arm and doesn’t tell anyone about it and his production falls off, then what?
Turkey sammich with pepper jack. Mmm …
Judd/Chip,
I hope your at the airport with phone in hand ready to start tweeting.
today football is a business that operates and is evaluated on fiscal results … The vikes have made a great business decision that gives them the best opportunity for success in this fiscal - why is that so tough to understand?
Super Bowl or not. As long as the Vikes go 2 - 12 (you guess the 2)!
Bang. Done.
Super Bowl or not. As long as the Vikes go at least 2 - 14 (you guess the 2)!
This may have just helped make sure the Vikes get a new stadium, and STAY in Minny.
That alone makes it worth it…RIGHT???
Plane hit the ground about 11:30. Chili picked him up in a white Ford Bronco, and he and Al Cowlings drove him to Winter Park under low-speed police escort. The route was lined with people holding up hand-lettered signs. It was carried live on all the channels…
mickeyjack, first LEARN how to count and then try to post! You loser (fudge packer lover)!!
mornin jet and my old friend rtg
This is a huge kick in the nuts to Sage.
Huge. Three days ago he’s king of the world, inside track to finally getting to start. Then, POW, and he’s trying to retrieve his LesSteckels from the other side of the field.
Torgo = Dorko
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