Now that “Fart Bevter” (we’ve taken the letters and rearranged them because we’re sick of typing his name -- the “v” is silent in this configuration) has decided not to play for the Vikings, the starting quarterback job is up for grabs.
In one corner, the second-round pick from 2006 who was supposed to become the next Donovan McNabb.
In the other corner, a guy named for a spice that regular folk rarely use. (And now we’ve pissed off the American Society of Sage Eaters and Such.)
Judd Zulgad of the Minneapolis Star Tribune tweets that Sage Rosenfels opened team drills as the second-team quarterback, which means that Tarvaris Jackson started off as the starter.
Zulgad later tweeted that Rosenfels was getting the first-team work.
Jackson was the Week One starter in 2008. But he was quickly benched in favor of Gus Frerotte, who kept the job until he was injured late in the year. Jackson returned and played incredibly well, until the playoffs.
Rosenfels has been a solid understudy in Houston, although he developed a reputation for reckleness, due in large part to his role in the squandering of a 17-point lead against the Colts.
Meanwhile, it remains to be seen whether the NFL and its teams will allow the media to tweet from camp. Many teams prohibit live blogging during practice -- and that’s pretty much what tweeting is.
