Favre will decide Vikings future by end of July
We might actually have a set date for the end of yet another year of Brett Favre waffling on playing again in the NFL: July 30, which is the start date of Vikings training camp.
That’s the date Favre said he will let the Vikings know if he is going to play this year. Favre has been working out with the Oak Grove High School football team in Mississippi three days a week all summer, but added a Sunday workout this week.
“There’s two weeks left and I’m doing everything I can. I was down here Sunday morning working out. I’m trying to get everything to where I feel 100 percent when I go in. I can’t go in any less. When you’re 39 years old, it’s hard enough. But it’s getting there,” he said.
Favre had surgery on a torn biceps tendon weeks ago and said if the arm strength wasn’t there, he wouldn’t be making a bid to return for his 19th season in the league.
“I don’t think Minnesota would even consider it if I didn’t have it,” Favre said.
Packers receiver Donald Driver says he wishes Favre some success if the quarterback signs with the Vikings. And he said his former teammate will not tarnish his legacy in Green Bay in the long term if he decides to join its NFC North rival.
“My own opinion is that his legacy is not going to be tarnished by anything,” Driver said. “He’s going to be able to still retire as a Green Bay Packer. I don’t think anyone will ever wear the No. 4 jersey in Green Bay ever again. It would not hurt him.”
But Packers Hall of Famer Paul Hornung doesn’t think Favre will succeed if he joins the Vikings.
“(Favre) ain’t going to win in Minnesota,” Hornung told revelers at a Wisconsin sports banquet on Tuesday. “I’ll bet on it.”
Favre reportedly recently put down a $30,000 deposit on a condo near the Vikings’ training facility, so it appears he perhaps already made a decision. Some think he and his agent are now more focused on the monetary value of his potential contract; Favre made $12 million last year.
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