Why July 3 Would Be The Perfect Time For a Brett Favre Signing

It seems all is quiet on the Brett Favre to the Minnesota Vikings issue, for a change. However, there has been talk that this period of reporters having nothing to write about might just be the calm before the storm that is an official Favre to the Vikings contract announcement.  The buzz is that the perfect time to for the Vikings organization to announce the signing might be this week, more specifically Friday, July 3, as Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com mentioned recently when looking over events in the near future.  Florio gave good reasons for this prediction—ones that I could not disagree with because they make very good sense. First of all, with the news last week that the future Hall of Fame quarterback was in Eden Prairie, Minn. getting his right arm evaluated after surgery in May, many would think that was a good time for the Vikings to end this never-ending story. There was just one problem. Head coach Brad ... (link)