Brett Favre is a Viking. This is awesome.
Obviously there are some interesting story lines to this whole Favre saga, but, it is an irrefutable fact that the Vikings have upgraded at the quarterback position. Sure it sends a message showing shaky at best, to absolutely zero confidence in our other quarterbacks, but I'm not all that concerned with their psyche. I just want to see us win as many games as possible. Perhaps if I felt we owed either of them loyalty, but they haven't earned that.
A picture in the Minneapolis Star Tribune printed today that summed up the whole situation perfectly. It is a picture of Brett Favre shaking Tarvaris Jackson's hand. Jackson has a half forced smile on his face which mainly just looks like a straight up grimace. It is exactly what you picture of two people meeting when one of the parties is being replaced by another who is far superior and obviously outclasses the other.
For example, let's say there is a guy named Damien who really has the hots for this girl Bianca. He is out with her dancing and he is not in any way a good dancer, but he is not horrible either and he is really trying hard. Damien thinks things are going well and he's going to have a chance with this girl. Then, out of nowhere, Jake saunters across the dance floor, who is much better looking than Damien, and a far superior dancer, and steals Blanca away in a second. But, not before making sure to politely shake Damien's hand as he does so. T-Jack's face in the picture is the exact face Damien would have had shaking Jake's hand.
Then you have Sage Rosenfels off to the right standing and staring with his thumbs in his practice shorts; may as well have had them in his butt. He will be perfecting that stance as the 2009 season moves on.
The best part of the picture is seeing Jim Kleinsasser in the background with a huge giddy grin on his face. I can only imagine he is either that excited to have Favre there, or that he's that excited to be able to witness the awkward encounter that is currently occurring between Favre and T-Jack. I hope it's the latter. That's the one I would be thinking about.
a) i see that you changed fonts from your previous post. interesting move.
ReplyDeleteb) where could that picture be found?
c) this is going to be my main vikings news source, so keep up the sweet comments about mustaches and dancing!
The picture can be found if you go to this link:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.startribune.com/galleries/53580327.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiU9PmP:QiUiacyKUUr
Then scroll through until you find it. I tried numerous times to be able to save this picture to my computer but could not figure out how. You can't quite see T-Jack's facial expression as clear as I could in the newspaper but you can see it well enough.