With training camp just around the corner I can no longer resist the Football gossip.

Strib writer Tom Powers suggests in the event the Vikings land the Ancient One that Brett Favre should be allowed to set his own Vikings training schedule.

Powers then continues with

If Mr. Brett Favre is reluctant to put himself through another grueling training camp, he should immediately be provided with a lawn chair, a pitcher of cold lemonade and several Wilfs armed with palm branches to stir up a nice cool breeze for him in Mankato.

Set the lawn chair at the 50-yard line of the practice field. But put it on the opposite sideline from where most Vikings coaches stand. That way, he won’t pick up any bad habits. And then, if it’s not too much trouble, have Mr. Favre shout out an occasional word of encouragement to his new Vikings teammates.

Near perfection.

The only thing I’d add is give him an umbrella, or at the very least a giant lineman for some shade, and a throng of useful idiots willing to dance upon command and tell him how heroic his last sip of lemonade was considering the papercut he received signing contracts. Perhaps John Madden could clone himself for this purpose, I hear he doesn’t have a lot going on besides sleeping on a bars of gold and eating perfect pancakes.

Still,as is the way on teh Internets, at least one commenter has to disagree.

The esteemed and venerable Brett Blows, United States suggests,

TP you are a complete and total JACK A SS. if the evil one wants to be part of this team he needs to act like it. you put this washed up POS on a pedestal above other players and coaches. you act like it’s not a team game and that we ought to change the team name from the Vikings to the favres. this is the worst freaking trash you have ever written. you are obviously a HUGE part of the reason the Minnesota news papers are going bankrupt TRASH TRASH TRASH. even if the dic k he ad signs, which he will; and we win the superbowl, which we wont, it will do zero towards keeping the Vikings in Minnesota. first off after the parade (HAHAHA WHAT A JOKE THAT IS) farve will ride off into the sunset with his shinny new ring and all the credit, and the Vikings will be left with one QB with no hope (Jackson) one QB that was lied to about the opportunity he’d get and no trust for the origination he works for (Sage) and some mutt named Booty. Well have the same sorry a ss ed coaching staff and most importantly the same cheap a ss ed, near sighted, penny pinching tax payers. it’s not the Vikings fans that are the problem…if it were just the fans the stadium would be built already, it’s the other 90% of the taxpayers that are too freaking stupid to see the tax benefits of professional sports that have doomed the Vikings to follow the Lakers, the North Stars and whoever else OUT OF TOWN. it’s over , their gone, accept it. that said and it kills me to say it AND I”LL NEVER ADMIT IT but why not bring the evil one in? i mean the team is gone anyway and if it give’s us a shot to win one before they leave then what the hell? than i can get NO MORE O-4 tattooed on my A SS so Packer fans will know where to place their lips when kissing my A S S. if he comes he does the same as everybody else or takes his rusty a ss back to Mississippi where he belongs

Wow, Mr.Blows, tell us how you really feel.

I do feel the need to take umbrage with this statement “and some mutt named Booty” as it’s my understanding Mr. John David Booty is a fine upstanding character that has solid football lineage and has long dreamt of being a Viking.

No, sir J.D. is no Mutt.

As for the Ancient One, is that lemonade ice cold enough?

It’s a long season, I don’t want you spraining your grimicing-after-an-interception-and-limping-off-the-field face.

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