{"id":5275,"date":"2009-08-19T18:38:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T23:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5275"},"modified":"2009-08-19T18:38:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T23:38:54","slug":"ziggy-administration-stimulus-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5275","title":{"rendered":"Ziggy Administration Stimulus Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The KSTP Eye in the Sky followed Brett Fahhhhrvuh in a black Cadillac Escalade from St. Paul&#8217;s downtown airport to Viking headquarters in Eden Prairie yesterday in an OJ-esque media frenzy, followed later by the official contract-signing announcement later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile ungrateful Packers fans have put a bounty on Fayver, belying the fact that they actually had the pleasure of seeing Favreau play in his prime &#8211; unlike Vikings fans who are snapping up tickets just as Ziggy hoped.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hFgnhABeargJCAKszPHaXPLD9ofQD9A6423O4\">The Vikings have sold more than 3,000 season tickets<\/a> since news broke that Brett Favre was coming to Minnesota. That&#8217;s in approximately a 24-hour span.<\/p>\n<p>Chief marketing officer Steve LaCroix says the team has sold about 10,000 single-game tickets during that time as fans clamor over the arrival of the veteran quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>Seats for the game against Green Bay on Oct. 5 are only available through a season ticket. There are roughly 7,000 season tickets remaining. The Vikings had to race to beat the blackout deadline for several games last season.<\/p>\n<p>Merchandise is also moving. LaCroix said several hundred pre-orders for Favre jerseys were placed online Tuesday. The purple No. 4s were to show up in stores on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Brett Favre&#8217;s signing is the Ziggy administration&#8217;s Stimulus Package.<\/p>\n<p>Costly, of short-lived benefit at best, and leaving the team worse off in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KSTP Eye in the Sky followed Brett Fahhhhrvuh in a black Cadillac Escalade from St. Paul&#8217;s downtown airport to Viking headquarters in Eden Prairie yesterday in an OJ-esque media frenzy, followed later by the official contract-signing announcement later in the day. Meanwhile ungrateful Packers fans have put a bounty on Fayver, belying the fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275","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=5275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}