My fellow Vikings fan Drew Magary, on Tuesday's events:
This whole Favre thing is easy for Packer fans. YOU STABBED US IN THE BACK, YOU FUCK! That's a pretty simple emotion to get a handle on. In a way, I envy them for their situation.If you thought that was profane, check out Drew's earlier thoughts...I, on the other hand, have no fucking clue how I'm supposed to feel when I turn on the TV this fall and see Brett Favre throw a touchdown pass for the Vikings, and then do that fucking thing he does where he runs around in a circle and the analysts laugh joyously at his playful antics. Oh, I know how I'll react when he throws one of his inevitable 28 picks. Vitriol is easy like that.
But support? Adoration? I have a hard time reconciling the fact that my happiness with the Vikings will now be directly tied to Brett Favre's success as a quarterback... I've spent most of the past hour praying that Favre blows out his knee Friday night and that Sage Rosenfels somehow morphs into an All-Pro. That's the BEST CASE SCENARIO of how this season will play out for me...
I said it before: this signing represents just how singularly idiotic and irrational a pursuit it is to be a sports fan. If I don't like Brett Favre, and I don't, why root for him now? He's still the same asshole, he just happened to want to play for my team
I'm in favor of the signing, mostly because Favre is a better quarterback than the other options, because the team was loaded all over the field except for under center, and because the Vikes are so in need of fan enthusiasm that their future in Minnesota may very well be at stake in the coming years. The season certainly got much more interesting- especially those two Green Bay games.
But that said, I am perfectly aware that the odds of the Favre experiment ending in absolute disaster aren't especially long.
Posted by Stephen Silver at August 19, 2009 01:36 AM