Isn't It Time To Stop The Whining

The 40 Year-Old Baby

So he is whining again. He whined in Green Bay. He pouted in New York. Now he is stomping around like a five year-old in Minnesota. Can Brett Favre please act his age?!?! He is having a phenomenal year with the Vikings but wherever he goes he loves to bring drama with him. His latest meltdown involves his coach Brad Childress. The Vikings were in position to close within a game of the Saints if they could beat the Panthers. With the Vikings up 7-6 and Brett being knocked around like a pinball, Childress informed Favre that he was thinking about benching him. Favre told him no and the two had a heated discussion on the sideline. Most people would not have known the two would have had this discussion but Favre threw his coach under the bus at the press conference after they lost. He stated the discussion was "heated" and he wasn't coming out of the game. Brett feels he has earned the right not to be benched. His play in December/January the last five years has shown he needs to sit if he wants to win a championship. I just can't take the superiority complex he has. He wants to play, then he doesn't. He only wants to go to the Vikings if he does play. Favre believes he is bigger than the team and his teammates and the game.

The Vikings have two problems with all this drama. One is they don't have a veteran on this team to pull Favre aside and tell him to settle down. Can you imagine if Terrell Owens or Randy Moss or Chad Ochocino (yes I did type his name that way) told their coaches they weren't coming out of the game. The coverage of the incident would have portrayed them as malcontents who disrupt the team's chemistry. Favre gets the hall pass because he is plays for the love of the game and he is the "Ultimate Competitor". That is so unfair. His whole I'm just a common man from Kiln, Mississippi act has worn thin. How long can he continue to hold teams hostage with this diva-like attitude. When are people going to realize how self-absorbed he really is. Everyone seems afraid to call him out. Yes, he has all the accolades and he has won a Super Bowl but someone needs to stand up to him on the Vikings if they want to win a championship. The coaches are afraid to bench him because they feel like he is their only hope. The gave Favre the franchise and now he is running it.

The other problem is this was once Adrain Peterson's team and now its Brett. The reason Favre said he wanted to play with a running back like Peterson. He talked about how dynamic he was and how he was just there to help. Everyone spoke about how teams would have to play them honest and couldn't load up the box to stop Peterson. Peterson this year is averaging career lows for him. The Vikings just sit back and chuck it down the field. There is another reported incident where Childress called a run-play and Favre ignored it and called a pass play. Childress wanted to bench him then BUT the offensive coordinator talked him out of it. So now Brett knows what play to call when and he doesn't stick to the game plan. In the real world when you do the opposite of what your boss or superiors tell you to do that is called insubordination. How Favre gets away with this is beyond me. If the Vikings want to turn this around the team needs to go back to riding the legs of Peterson.

I don't want the Vikings to win the Super Bowl and I don't think they will. But a part of me hopes they win, so the 40 year-old baby can go back to Mississippi and all the pouting and whining can stop.