Will The NFL "Award" Brett Favre To The Vikings For a New Stadium?

The Minnesota Vikings have been trying, for quite some time, to convince the Minnesota state legislature and other governmental entities in Minnesota to provide economic aid and development for a new stadium. The Viking franchise has also been frequently mentioned as a candidate to move to L.A.

If Brett Favre played for the Minnesota Vikings and got them within sniffing distance of the Superbowl, Viking fans would be all hyped up. A hyped up fan base translates to votes for a new stadium. And we all know a politician in pursuit of votes can run a 4.2s 40m and jump higher than LeBron James.

Brett Favre wants to play for the Vikings. The Vikings want a new stadium. The NFL wants the Vikings to stay in Minnesota (why move a team if you have a re-energized fan base?)

If Vikings' owner Zygi Wilf wants to offer Favre a chance of a percentage of ownership in a new Vikings stadium deal and the NFL wants that too, why should any football fan stand in the way?

This is just a conspiracy theory with no basis in fact. (Except for the fact Favre wants to play for the Vikings.)

As a Green Bay Packer fan, I know our unique franchise ownership is probably as dead as the dodo bird. We have no deep pockets owner, no financial sway within the NFL brotherhood, and really no standing in the NFL except for the history, mystique and popularity of the Packer franchise.

No professional sports league is going to throw out the opinions and wishes of its millionaire and billionaire owners in favor of a team owned by bunch of fans.

The Packer franchise has been "saved" four times by an infusion of money from the fans, the most recent in 1997 via a stock sale. Residents of Brown County (the Wisconsin county where Lambeau Field is located) also are charged a sales tax for the 2000 renovation of Lambeau Field.

The 1997 stock sale and the 2000 Lambeau Field renovation would probably not have been as successful (although the stock sale was likely less successful than Packer Executive Committee members anticipated) without the Brett Favre-led success of the team in the last 16 years.

As a Packer fan, seeing Favre in a purple Viking jersey would be very, very difficult. But, in the end, I believe if the Packer organization can't or won't, because of time constraints or reluctance to adopt such a radical idea, allow a shareholder vote on the matter of Favre's return, Favre should just be released and allowed to go to his preferred Viking team.

Divorces happen all the time and people live through the process. 

Just let Favre go to the team he wants to play for, even if it is the Vikings. People change, fall in and out of love, get old, mature, and finally believe there is no such thing as true love or a hero.

Let him go but, please, please, please. When he is inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame, don't let him wear the green and gold of my grandfather and father's team. The green and gold is only for people who understand there is no such thing as true love or a hero, but hope there might be one day.