Favre further erodes his legacy

Brett Favre put all the rumors to rest today and signed a contract with the Minnesota Vikings. He will be the Vikings starter, and this probably makes the Vikings a much better football team. However this is a move not without risk, because no matter what Favre once was, today he is a 40 year old QB with a partially torn rotator cuff. He flamed out last season with the New York Jets, and he has signed with the Vikings as a way to get back at Packers General manager Ted Thompson.

To put it a little more bluntly Favre today is a mediocre QB at best, who just happens to have a massive ego. that is not a good combination.

Favre made a name for himself being a tough guy, in a tough division, with a tough team. Today he signed with the Green Bay Packers divisional rivals, and a good guess is Packer nation is not going to take that lightly. Favre could have accepted a front office gig with the Packers, had his number 4 retired at Lambeau Field and continued to make thousands of dollars a year at Green Bay’s Brett Favre steak house.

Instead he is coming back to the NFL with the Packers rival for 10-12 million dollars. Even if he wins a Super Bowl with the Vikings he has now enraged the only real fan support he had left, the Green Bay Packer fans. He left the Jets high and dry, letting them waste a year on a QB that couldn’t get the job done. On top of that year, Favre’s poor play for the Jets cost that team, and its fans, a shot at the playoffs.