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The Washington Post said:Favre Reverses Course, Signs With Vikings
By Mark Maske
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Once quarterback Brett Favre had his latest change of heart, he and the Minnesota Vikings wasted no time putting another comeback into motion. Favre returned to the NFL once more by signing Tuesday with the Vikings. He immediately participated in a practice and began making plans to possibly play in a preseason game Friday.
"I don't know how I'll feel five years, 10 years from now," Favre said at a news conference at the Vikings' training complex in Eden Prairie, Minn. "I didn't want to say, you know, 'What if?' . . . I think I made the right decision. I really do."
The signing came three weeks after Favre, 39, told the Vikings that he planned to stay retired for good this time, declining an opportunity to report to training camp with the team. Instead, Favre reversed course yet again and came out of retirement for a second straight year.
"I'm in it for the right reasons," Favre said. "And if people can't understand that, I'm sorry."
He reportedly signed a two-year contract with the Vikings that pays him $12 million this season and would pay him $13 million next season, if he plays that long.
"We felt like we had an opportunity to add a piece to the puzzle," Vikings Coach Brad Childress said at the news conference.
Childress and Favre both said it's possible that the quarterback will play in the club's preseason game at home Friday against the Kansas City Chiefs. Childress met Favre at a Twin Cities airport Tuesday after Favre traveled from his home in Mississippi.
When Favre rejected the Vikings' offer to go to training camp with them last month, he said he wasn't certain that he could play a full season at a level of performance he considered satisfactory. Childress said at the time that the club would not renew its pursuit of Favre.
But conversations resumed when Childress called Favre on Monday, both said."After I said no three weeks ago, at times I was okay with it," Favre said. "At other times, I said, 'I think I could have helped that team.' . . . When Brad called [Monday], it was like, 'This is it. It's now or never.' "
Childress said of Monday's conversation: "I picked up the phone and asked. And he said, 'I can play Friday night, right?' "
Favre underwent offseason surgery for the partially torn biceps tendon that plagued him last season while he was with the New York Jets, then spent part of his summer working out with the football team at a high school near his home....
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Brett Favre was cool until he "retired" the first time. Since then I am so sick of the guy it is nauseating! I really think this guy is not going to quit until he has a major injury and has to be carried off the field. He has a tear in the rotator cuff and I don't think he is going to be "all that" for the Vikings. I'd bet this is the year his consecutive start streak will end. I hope nothing too terrible happens to him, but I really wish he would go away, never to be heard from again, at least until he is inducted into the hall of fame. If he makes it through this season intact, how much you wanna bet he retires again, then comes back in 2010?!?
GO AWAY BRETT!!!!
