{"id":17,"date":"2009-08-25T04:23:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T04:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2015-02-07T05:17:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T05:17:07","slug":"vikings-favre-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Vikings \/ Favre Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"brett-favre-story\"<\/a>The main problem with Brett Favre\u2019s ongoing retirement-waffling situation, aside from its sheer ridiculousness, is that it undermines the importance and value of training camp and the essential team building shenanigans that occur then and there.<\/p>\n

Say what you will about Favre\u2019s career, his past exploits and how he might have \u201cearned\u201d a little deferential treatment. I maintain that no player \u2013not Lofa Tatupu, not even Y.A. Tittle\u2013 should be allowed to stroll through the back door of a team\u2019s practice facility halfway through training camp, blindside two quarterbacks (who had been giving it their all since the beginning of July) and call into question the moral framework of an entire organization. Really, what message are the Vikings (and, specifically, Brad Childress) sending here? That it doesn\u2019t matter how long and hard you train and work, if there\u2019s an old geezer who doesn\u2019t know when to say when, then you\u2019d better be prepared to ride the pine? Favre single-handedly undercuts the team dynamic and, if I were a Vikings player (soon\u2014I\u2019m getting into shape), I\u2019d have a difficult time trusting the organization from here on out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The main problem with Brett Favre\u2019s ongoing retirement-waffling situation, aside from its sheer ridiculousness, is that it undermines the importance and value of training camp and the essential team building shenanigans that occur then and there. Say what you will about Favre\u2019s career, his past exploits and how he might have \u201cearned\u201d a little deferential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,74,73],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brad-childress","tag-brett-favre","tag-minnesota-vikings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}