Brett Favre’s Return Depends on Health

Rather than relying on the words of this source or that source (from this network or that network), we finally got to hear from Brett Favre himself last night on HBO’s new Joe Buck Live. And Brett made it clear he wants to play football again, saying “I am considering it.”

Brett Favre / Image: Zuma Press

He also confirmed that he did have surgery to repair a partially torn biceps tendon last month. And if the surgery is deemed a success, he will probably “unretire” for a second time and play quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings—the only team he has talked to about joining this season:

“First and foremost, you can’t go past the arm. If that’s not up to par, when the time comes, then I can’t play. I went through it last year, and yeah, I gutted it out, or whatever. But it affected me, and it affected our team, and I don’t want to do it again, and I won’t do it again. That is why I went ahead and had the surgery. I had the procedure done and as I rehab and if it ever gets to the point where it feels like it did before it started hurting, then we’ll see where it is ….. It’s more or less how my arm feels and we’ll go from there.”

My guess is that Brett will find a way to get that arm in good enough shape to play this season. As long as the desire is there (and obviously it is), I believe he will be ready to quarterback the Minnesota Vikings.

Source: HBO/You Tube