Filed under: Coach Childs' Corner
It was about five Christmases ago when I got my first Brett Favre jersey. It was also my last Favre jersey. Back then Favre was the iron man of football, he was loyal to one of the best franchises in sports history and he was without a doubt entertaining to watch. Needless to say he was my favorite player in the NFL.
Man, have things changed in the last five years. Today, I would no longer use words such as toughness, loyal, and entertaining but rather choose words like egotistical, drama queen, and selfish to describe Brett Favre. The “gunslinger” has made his last minute return to the Vikings and with his arrival in Minnesota yesterday the hopes and dreams of Tavares Jackson and Sage Rosenfels have been shattered for the second year in a row.
I do feel that if the Vikings can live with what Favre has decided to do than who am I to have an opinion on the situation. However, I just can’t help myself this time. No matter how many games he has played in a row or how many touchdowns he has thrown for, I don’t believe it shows good leadership to show up to camp as camp is closing. I have heard countless Vikings talk about the leadership the “gunslinger” brings to the locker room and to that I would say, lead by example and the example is to outwork everyone including Jackson and Rosenfels. Be the first to arrive and the last to leave. Mentor the younger players especially the quarterbacks. Reach out to High Schoolers in Minnesota. Do more for others than for yourself! That is leadership and that is not Brett Favre.
So Brett Favre doesn’t want to stay in a dorm room or sleep in a dorm bed. My guess is that neither do the other seventy guys that reported for camp. My advice to Brad Childress and friends out in Minnesota would be to run your camp from your practice facility from day 1 and accommodate everyone the same as you accommodate the game’s biggest pre Madonna.
I know I am ranting here and I try not to do this on my blog, so I will digress in saying that I have no real interest in the Minnesota Vikings or Brett Favre. However, moving forward I will have an interest in the careers of Rosenfels and Jackson and I wish them well. In the meantime I will have to add a new jersey to my Christmas wish list. I think I will go with some guy named Manning.
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