As the feud between Vikings quarterback Brett Favre and coach Brad Childress moved to the back burner for a day, it could be back to a full boil by the time Favre gets together with the media for his Wednesday press conference.
We all know by now that Brett Favre plus microphones often equals plenty of fodder for discussion and debate -- especially when ESPN’s otherwise ho-hum Monday nighter between Minnesota and Chicago suddenly has acquired a considerable dose of spice.
So look for the specially-made T.O. cameras to be trained on Childress for three-plus non-stop hours.
And look for more opinions to emerge this week, such as these observations from former Packers safety LeRoy Butler.
“Everybody in Minnesota knows that Brett Favre is running that organization,” Butler told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (via the Minneapolis Star Tribune). “When the head coach leaves and goes and picks him up in his SUV, and brings him to the facility, everyone knows who’s running the Minnesota Vikings. So I’m not surprised Brett won out. If the coach says to come out of the game, you come out of the game. . . .
“Brett should have said, ‘OK, I’m taking a lot of hits, I’ll come out of the game.’ He doesn’t want to do that. You can’t show your coach up like that. It’s 80 percent Brett’s fault, but it’s 20 percent Childress’ fault. He let it happen. . . . It was just a matter of time before it happened.”
And happened it has. The question becomes what will happen next.
Our popcorn is ready.
