{"id":2978,"date":"2008-08-01T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2008-08-01T21:02:53","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T02:02:53","slug":"i-wonder-if-fran-tarkenton-is-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2978","title":{"rendered":"I Wonder if Fran Tarkenton is Available?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As everyone knows by now, the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.jsonline.com\/packers\/archive\/2008\/07\/30\/report-packers-offer-favre-20-million-to-stay-home.aspx\">Packers have offered Brett Favre $20,000,000<\/a> to stay home (I put the zeros there for emphasis instead of the customary $20M or $20 Million to illustrate how unbelievably absurd the NFL has become).<\/p>\n<p>It serves further to illustrate how asinine it is to allow franchise owners to hold major market communities hostage by threatening to move clubs to more agreeable venues. If the Vikings threaten to leave the Twin Cities because we won&#8217;t give Zygi $200,000,000 I say fine. There is no way you can justify the expenditure\u00a0of public money for the construction of a\u00a0sports facility any more, which is probably why the Vikings stadium issue hasn&#8217;t floated to the top of the news pile of late.<\/p>\n<p>I say screw them and the Sex Boat they\u00a0rode in on.<\/p>\n<p>I get the fact that Green Bay doesn&#8217;t want Brett Favre to end up with a division rival but his arrival on the roster is by no means a guarantee of a division title let alone a Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>I have a hunch that Brett retired for a reason.<\/p>\n<p>History\u00a0shows that mature, overpaid primadona athletes are as likely to implode in these scenarios than propel their teams to national championships. Ladies and Gentlemen,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herschel_Walker\">Herschel Walker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As such, how can it <em>possibly<\/em> be worth $20,000,000 to keep Brett on ice? You can buy a lot of grass seed for twenty million. Crap, you can buy the team a new airplane for that.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and furthermore, in alignment with the boss around here, &#8230;who the hell cares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As everyone knows by now, the Packers have offered Brett Favre $20,000,000 to stay home (I put the zeros there for emphasis instead of the customary $20M or $20 Million to illustrate how unbelievably absurd the NFL has become). It serves further to illustrate how asinine it is to allow franchise owners to hold major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}