Brett Favre spoke to NFL Network’s Deion Sanders on Friday and said he’s a Griffin fan. Â He also weighed in on the Saints bounty scandal since he was one of the alleged targets. Â Read more after the jump.
It was the great debate of the spring: Andrew Luck or Robert Griffin III?
We knew all along that the Colts would take Luck, but a surprising number of NFL observers grew to like RG3 over Luck. Consider Brett Favre to be in that group.
“Griffin, he’s smaller, but if I was starting a team, I’d probably of went with RG3 just because, if they can’t protect you, you got to protect yourself,” Favre said.
We can’t help but agree with Favre on this one. We also happen to share his opinion of Cam Newton: “That dude is good.”
Everybody else has weighed in the New Orleans Saints’ “bounty” scandal, so why not Brett Favre.
He said he hasn’t given much thought to being targeted as quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings in the 2010 NFC Championship Game against New Orleans.
“People ask me about it at home, because everyone back home was Saints fans,” Favre told Sanders. “I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.
Anyone who took a look at Favre’s grapefruit-sized ankleafter that affair understands the ol’ gunslinger played through immense pain. It doesn’t seem to bother Favre that he was the target of former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams and his troops. Favre — sounding weary — only spoke of falling short of the Super Bowl.
“I’m just upset we didn’t win,” he said again, his voice trailing off.
It’s not the last we’ll hear from Favre, but he’s not losing sleep over this ongoing “bounty” mini-drama.
