Favre from the madding crowd

I'm going to run out of puns if this goes on much longer...

After announcing that he was done for good at the end of July, Brett Favre has suddenly thrown his hat into the ring once more, and signed up to be a Viking in Minnesota. It appears as though the Vikes' organisation made a decision that they'd sound him out one more time, and this time Favre said "yes!", and within 24hrs he was on a plane with the owner and president of the Vikings, a deal already done, and he was heading to training camp.

It appears from Favre's press conference at the Vikings' training camp that at least in part it was his daughter who talking him into it. He said to the reporters that when she saw his announcement that he was done appear on television, she told him that she'd really wanted him to "go and try to win another Superbowl". At the time, Favre said, he thought he'd burnt his bridges and couldn't go back on his decision. Then the Vikings called him up and said, "Wanna try it now?"

With pressure like that, who could resist when the opportunity called!?

FOr all that I think Favre has been a bit childish over the past couple of seasons about this stuff,, I simply cannot resent him choosing to play professionally for another season. I am sure that if I had his talent, I would want to keep going until my arms dropped off! I don't care who he plays for, as long as he's enjoying it.

That said, when he plays against the Packers I want to see him get pounded heavily. But equally, that goes for any QB who's playing against the Packers on a given day!

I have a dream, brothers and sisters: and that dream is that the NFC Conference championship will feature Favre returning once again to Lambeau Field as the Pack and the Vikes vie for a spot in the Superbowl...

I won't tell you the result in my dream, but if I tell you that my other dream is to see Aaron Rodgers lifting the Lombardi Trophy, it should be fairly obvious!