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I understand the Brett Favre lovefest is back in town but the most wretched part about that cheap shot was that it was in a preseason game.  It's those games that you just hope your starters and special teamers get through without major injury.  Granted no one is going easy, but a cheap shot is bad enough during the regular season - this is the preseason.  Now everyone is hesitating to call it cheap, obviously because Favre was on the dishing end, had Favre been on the receiving end of a block like that or an extremely vicious, low, late hit after he threw a pass - there'd be investigations, arraignments, fines, suspensions, jailtime, and house arrest ankle braclets.  Let's call it what it is, it was a cheap shot and it was cowardly to walk away and not even check on the guy who's career you could have just ended.  Ask Correll Buckhalter how hard it is to come back from a knee injury - the guy has a team of trainers surround him every time he sneezes.


For all the great things Favre did for the NFL and the Green Bay Packers over the better part of the last 2 decades, the last couple years have left a lot of people with a sour taste in their mouth.  Ask the cheeseheads up North, or the Jet fans, or wait about 6 months and asking the Viking fans.  He left the Jets locker room in shambles, word is he's already got the Viking locker room divided, and his divorce from Green Bay was one of the sloppier ones in recent history.  The man's superiority complex is bigger than his arm ever was, and if you don't cave to the demands of the almighty Brett - well you'll be dealt with.


Childress' first mistake was bringing this traveling, greying, circus side show freak to town, because guess what.  When the season's over and the Vikings don't make the playoffs BECAUSE of him (don't think it can happen, ask Thomas Jones and company about what happened last year), he's going to fade away quietly into the Mississippi sunset (granted only to annoy us a few months later).  He doesn't care about winning, sure he'd love to win another Super Bowl, but he doesn't want to work at it.  He wants to come in late, skip all of training camp, and take the starting job away from two guys who battled through the dehydration, soreness, and hot weather to earn it.  In his mind he's already earned it, and who knows maybe he has.  The downfall is that you can't bench him, I mean it's not Mike Holmgren coaching the Viking - it's a team without a quarterback bringing in a has-been quarterback to try to take them to the promised land.


So don't give me that garbage that lack of blocking practice was the reason he threw an unneccesary, cheap block on an unexpecting linebacker.  That's on him, but you're the reason he was even in uniform and had the opportunity to do it.  You don't realize it now, but you'll rue the day you ever accepted him into your locker room and allowed him to put on the purple and gold.  If you do happen to win this year - he'll be gone, because he's got his - and you'll be left to pick up the pieces of a shattered team morale.  If you don't win - well he'll just find another team to destroy.