{"id":21564,"date":"2013-08-09T08:40:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T13:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21564"},"modified":"2014-05-09T15:02:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T20:02:30","slug":"greg-jennings-trolls-the-packers-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/09\/greg-jennings-trolls-the-packers-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Jennings trolls the Packers yet again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Greg Jennings was Minnesota’s big name signing over the offseason. He was brought in from the Green Bay Packers (who have a surplus of good receivers) to at least partially fill the hole in the roster from the departure of Percy Harvin. Since he arrived in Minnesota, Jennings has been a veritable cornucopia of media-worthy gems of casual abuse directed at his former team (and Aaron Rodgers in particular). Jim Souhan<\/a> says this is a good thing:<\/p>\n

It began as a strange and unnatural occurrence, like one of those unverified online photos of a chimp hanging out with a bird. Now it\u2019s threatening to become a bizarre tradition, or, as the kids so eloquently put it, “a thing.”<\/p>\n

Every four years or so, the Vikings should steal one of the Packers\u2019 best offensive players, just to create the kind of sideshow that can make even training camp interesting.<\/p>\n

In 2009, and 2010, and into 2011, Brett Favre turned the already fascinating Vikings-Packers rivalry into something it had never before been on any meaningful level: incestuous.<\/p>\n

In 2013, Greg Jennings is one-upping Favre, not in terms of existential angst and passive aggressiveness, but with new-age, self-aware, YouTube<\/em>-able, Twitter<\/em>-ready, Facebook<\/em>-enflaming, border-crossing Scud missiles designed to invoke an emotional response even if they miss the target.<\/p>\n

Jennings, the new Viking and former Packer receiver, is, as the kids say, “trolling” his former team. If you\u2019re too young to know what “trolling” is, just listen to Jennings a few times, and you\u2019ll get the idea.<\/p>\n

In July, in an interview with the Star Tribune<\/em>\u2019s Dan Wiederer, he poked holes in the flawless image of Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, raising or confirming questions about Rodgers\u2019 ego and leadership skills.<\/p>\n

This week, Jennings told KFAN that the Packers had “brainwashed” him into believing that Green Bay was the land of milk and honey-flavored cheddar, that operations such as the Vikings were inherently flawed.<\/p>\n

If true, that\u2019s fascinating. If not, Jennings is fascinating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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