GREEN BAY, Wis. -- And here, all this time, we thought Jared Allen, Ryan Longwell and Steve Hutchinson were teaming up to convince Brett Favre to come back to the Minnesota Vikings for one more season during their training-camp trip to Mississippi in 2010.
Turns out, only two of them -- Longwell and Hutchinson -- were actively recruiting the soon-to-be Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback. Allen, the team’s Pro Bowl defensive end, actually told Favre to stay retired.
Allen, appearing on former Green Bay Packers and Cincinnati Bengals linebacker A.