{"id":1634,"date":"2009-08-18T19:41:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T00:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/18\/i-do-not-get-the-brett-favre-love-affair\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T11:26:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T16:26:41","slug":"i-do-not-get-the-brett-favre-love-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/18\/i-do-not-get-the-brett-favre-love-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"I do not get the Brett Favre love affair."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so Favre signs with the Vikings.  Now what?  Part of me wants to say \u201cBig f\u2019ing deal.\u201d  The other part realizes that if (and this is a big if) Favre can perform above average he just may put the Vikings over the top.  At the very least Vikings football will be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Reading today\u2019s news of Favre signing with the Vikings was anticlimactic.  I think everyone knew it was a matter of when, not if the Vikings were able to get Favre to change his mind again (and again, and again, and again).<\/p>\n<p>I just wonder what it was that made Favre say that the time was right, but three weeks ago he was done.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever.  I have always liked Favre, and I wish him well, unless he meets up with the Falcons in the playoffs. <\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so Favre signs with the Vikings. Now what? Part of me wants to say \u201cBig f\u2019ing deal.\u201d The other part realizes that if (and this is a big if) Favre can perform above average he just may put the Vikings over the top. At the very least Vikings football will be interesting. Reading today\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/18\/i-do-not-get-the-brett-favre-love-affair\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I do not get the Brett Favre love affair.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2807,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/2807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}