As you have seen by now, Brett Favre threw a touchdown pass on fourth down late in yesterday’s drubbing of the Cowboys (watch it here) when the game was already out of reach for Dallas. This upset Keith Brooking, who is extremely intelligent to start with:
On Keith Brooking, And The Vikings Running Up The Score
↵↵“I thought it was classless,” Brooking said. “I thought it was B.S. Granted, we get paid to stop them, but we had zero timeouts left. I didn’t think there was any call for that.”
↵↵This quote, and the fit Brooking threw on the field after the TD, prompted a post from our Vikings blog Daily Norseman, in which they remind Brooking why the Cowboys had no timeouts: They used them all in an attempt to score more points themselves. So, essentially, Brooking is suggesting that it was OK for Dallas to continue trying to score, despite the game being out of hand, yet the Vikings should’ve shut it down.
↵Norseman, take it away:
↵↵This isn’t college football, where the big boys go out and schedule games against Whatsamatta U to run up big victories and improve their BCS position. Everybody out on that field is a professional, and every single one of them is paid to do their job. Brooking and his defensive teammates decided that because they weren’t good enough to do their jobs, the Vikings’ offense should stop doing their jobs, too. That’s not how it works.
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