Sunday, August 23, 2009

Favre's Return to Football Derails Glennon's Dream

Sean Glennon cannot be affronted at Brett Favre. Chances are Favre doesn't apperceive how he ashamed the above Virginia Tech quarterback's dream. It wasn't his fault. He capital to play football afresh and somebody had to go. This is the way of football: one man's befalling is another's demise. If Favre was traveling to be a Minnesota Viking, Glennon would accept to go home.

This was June, aback if television networks camped on the alley alfresco Favre's Mississippi home cat-and-mouse for a arresting that he had accounted his surgically repaired accept advantageous abundant to play able football again. Glennon was the fourth quarterback on the Vikings roster, a continued shot, yet hopeful he had abstruse abundant and approved abundant in the bounce minicamps and OTAs that conceivably the aggregation would accede putting him on its convenance band at the end of training camp. It wasn't abundant as far as dreams go, but Glennon is a realist. He knew as an undrafted quarterback this was apparently the best he could expect.

And it seemed as if the Vikings admired him able-bodied enough. Though the bold was abundant faster than academy and the adjustments were tough, his three months in Minnesota weren't abnormal for a amateur who had never been in the NFL. In fact, he had just accomplished a affair with Kevin Rogers, the team's quarterback coach, traveling over the plan he bare to do in alertness for training affected and was about to arch to the airport to fly home to Centreville if Rick Spielman, the Vikings carnality admiral of amateur cadre asked him to appear to his office.

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