Jared Allen certainly isn’t the guy we’d expect to show up with the sensible advice. Yet, that hillbilly is exactly the person who did so when the Minnesota Vikings were courting Brett Favre to come out of retirement.
During the summer of 2009, the Vikings sent owner Zygi Wilf’s (Groucho, you fuck!) private plane to Mississippi to woo Favre. Brett had “retired,” after a season with the New York Jets, but hadn’t officially sent his retirement papers to the league. The expedition included Allen, offensive lineman Steve Hutchinson and kicker Ryan Longwell, now and forever a Minnesota Viking.