{"id":579,"date":"2009-08-18T15:02:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T19:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=579"},"modified":"2009-08-18T21:31:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T01:31:26","slug":"on-the-plus-side-at-least-the-coming-out-of-retirement-stories-are-over-til-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/on-the-plus-side-at-least-the-coming-out-of-retirement-stories-are-over-til-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"On the plus side, at least the “coming out of retirement” stories are over ’til 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s apparently official:<\/p>\n

\"Favre_signs_contract\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I wouldn’t call myself a Favre-hater, but I didn’t want to see him wearing the purple. Now that this is no longer a question, I’ll have to re-arrange my thoughts . . . I hope that this season does work out the way Coach Childress and the owners hope it will (that is, with a Superbowl win in 2010).<\/p>\n

Update<\/b>: Sage Rosenfels and Tarvaris Jackson try to avoid saying anything newsworthy to the media<\/a>. Hard to blame them . . . they’ve each just had their best chance for professional success kicked out from underneath them. I’m sure each is thinking “it’s only a one-year deal . . .”<\/p>\n

Of course, there’s the other aspect: most NFL teams only carry three quarterbacks into the regular season — who’ll be the odd man out? Rosenfels played well in the pre-season opener, and was brought in for a 4th round draft choice. Jackson was a 2nd round pick, but still hasn’t shown that he’s able to be consistent. Booty is still the total unknown. Who will be given their walking papers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s apparently official: I wouldn’t call myself a Favre-hater, but I didn’t want to see him wearing the purple. Now that this is no longer a question, I’ll have to re-arrange my thoughts . . . I hope that this season does work out the way Coach Childress and the owners hope it will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[180,126],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-brettfavre","tag-minnesotavikings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}