Jeff George a Viking??

[fishersofmen]

An article just came out today with Jeff George saying he wants to play for the Vikings. Here are a couple quotes....

“I’ve been trying to figure out how to get back in, and it just amazes me that I’m not on somebody’s roster,” George said. “I’ve been throwing two or three times a week, and every time I go out there to throw, I can’t believe I’m not a backup somewhere. I know it’s a young man’s game, but you can’t tell me I’m not better than some of the quarterbacks that are out there. I look at teams like Minnesota or Chicago, and I want to scream at the people in charge, ‘What are you thinking?’ ”

Yet the competitor in George can’t let it go, especially when he sees teams like the Vikings, for whom he put up huge numbers while going 8-2 as a starter in 1999, and the Cowboys, who struggled last season when Tony Romo missed several weeks with an injury and 40-year-old backup Brad Johnson was ineffective.

“If I was in Minnesota,” George said, “I guarantee I’d be wearing a ring right now. I just can’t get over why somebody like [coach] Brad Childress wouldn’t take a look at me and have me as the third guy on their roster. Put me in and I’ll pick up right where I left off in ’99, but this time with Adrian Peterson, so I wouldn’t have to throw it nearly as much.”

Yet when Childress, during the 2007 season, was asked if he had any interest in George, the coach was dismissive, saying, “Probably maybe [he could] go to a fantasy camp or something like that. ‘Downside’ would probably be, I think, kind.”

Does everyone see this as a joke, or would it be worth at least comparing him with the other two guys in training camp????

[Outfitter17]

How old if Jeff George?

[croixflats]

41 years old. He was not much of a mobile quarterback and sure wont be now. With the center position up in the air I think we are going to need a mobile quarterback.

With the new rule no lunging at the quarteback who knows.

[SledNeck]

we should have picked up Jeff few years ago.

Ive always been a Jeff George fan

[koonie]

He had a boatload of talent. Kind of a whiner though. If he could have kept his mouth shut he would have been a lot better off. The guy could really wing it though.

[Sandmannd]

Not mobile, but accurate. He's like Gus, but can chuck the rock further. At least he used to be able to. We could bring CC out of retirement as well.

[zamboni]

When he says he is "out throwing two or three times a week" anyone else picture Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite throwing a football while videoing himself??

"I can throw a football over that mountain"

[toddb]

Spot on Zamboni,

Definitely uncle Rico

[fishersofmen]

Lol, uncle Rico was awesome. Imagine being stuck in one year your entire life........he just couldn't let it go.

[KTapper]

Uncle Rico also said he could throw a pig skin a quater mile. lol

[Jim Uran]

uncle rico(Jeff George) is probably better than tjack is right now.

Sounds like a lot of confidence left in him.

[Double D]

But has he been selling Wonder Bras and Tupperware like Uncle Rico?

DD

[IFallsRon]

There's more spare quarterbacks in the league than George although he's no George Blanda. I'd think he doesn't have as much zip on the ball as he did eight years when he was blackballed.

[Tip Up Rookie]

Double D, Rico was selling "bust must" to the ladies. Lets sign uncle Rico to a contract

[pinkfloyd4ever]

every year Jeff is saying that he should be on someone's team, and almost every year he throws out the Vikings name, at least that is how I see him. I think if he was still that good/valuable, he'd have been in the league the last few years. Wasn't it about 3 years ago he was Chicago's 3rd string QB?

[Sandmannd]

But has he been selling Wonder Bras and Tupperware like Uncle Rico?

DD

I don't think he's been selling that, I thought it was the wizinator.

[pike2eye]

I watched Mike & Mike in the morning and they had a thing that Jeff George said that he would have a superbowl ring if the vikings would have picked him up.

[10,000 Casts]

THE VIKINGS NEED TO STOP SIGNING OLD WASHED UP TALENT!

SERIOUSLY, they do it more than anyone in the league and look where it has gotten them!

[SledNeck]

I know. What were they thinking when they signed Randall Cunningham?????