As the final days of May give way to June, NFL fans can feel the football winds begin to blow. OTAs and minicamps are beginning, free agents will be signing next week, and football diehards can glimpse training camp just over the horizon. Also (as has been the norm for the last several years) the Brett Favre watch has begun. With it comes the inevitable gripes: he's a primadonna, he likes the attention, he's jerking his teammates around, he shouldn't be treated differently than anyone else, he's secretly having a love affair with John Madden, blah, blah, blah. You know what I say to that: who cares? I know I'm a little biased because Brett Favre is my all time favorite quarterback but why all the hate? This is par for the course for him, and it has been for almost a half dozen years. Why should this off season be any different? Unlike other years he's actually given some more definitive signs that he's coming back. Favre had ankle surgery recently and you don't do that if you plan on just driving a tractor and waffling on what HD television to buy. He even told the baseball team for his Alma mater that if they made it to the college world series again he'd come back and play. Come on? Seriously? Like he's not gonna come back and play. Fear not Vikings fans, #4 will be there on Sundays this Fall. And to those who say he shouldn't be given preferential treatment? Personally I think his teammates and the Vikings coaching staff and front office could care less when he shows up in training camp, as long as he's throwing TD passes in 2010 and getting them back to the playoffs. And not for nothing but when a guy has thrown 497 career td passes, thrown almost 70,000 yards passing, is an 11 time pro-bowler and a three time MVP, and made 300 consecutive starts counting the playoffs, I'd say he's earned some special treatment at the age of 40. The guy has been in the league for 19 years. Do you really think he needs a full training camp to get on track or a preseason that is WAY too long? The short answer is no. My advice is to not even pay attention to the Brett Favre watch or the people who bitch about it. Let the media do their little off season dog and pony show and rest assured that Favre will show up to Vikings training camp sometime in late August wearing a faded pair of Wranglers, carrying a VHS copy of "There's Something About Mary", and sporting a tobacco dip in his lower lip so big that it will look like someone surgically implanted Pat Williams into his chin.
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