Monkeys Resign Favre

With little fanfare, the Monkeys made a quiet move that reunited long-time teammates last week. On November 18th, Monkeys management met Brett Favre in a local diner in the Bay Area and signed him to a one year contract. Despite being unfamiliar with most of the players on the team today, Favre is no stranger to the Monkeys franchise. For those that remember, Brett Favre was an original draft choice of the Chunky Monkeys franchise in their original 2001 draft. As he will for the 2009 team, Favre served as a back-up to Peyton Manning in 2001. Along with Manning, co-captain LaDainian Tomlinson was also on the 2001 team where he was a fresh faced rookie from TCU.

Monkeys GM, Evan Shiue, told the media earlier “Its great to have Brett back. We actually even gave him his old locker back, next to Peyton’s. To be honest, we were surprised Brett was out there. He’s been having an MVP type of season. We all had dinner last week with LT and Peyton and it was nice to talk about the good ol’ days. I now Fred Taylor and Derrick Mason are still active in the league and all those guys are good friends. But most importantly, Brett will play a very important role in our lineup in the playoffs. Besides being the great clubhouse leader that he’s always been, we anticipate Brett to get significant snaps this season.”

ESPN’s Adam Shefter said “Great move by the Monkeys. The team will needed a back-up to Peyton Manning and you can’t get much better than Brett Favre. The Monkeys have been a little underrated this year with their ups and downs earlier this season and the show that the Angels have put on this year but this is a good good team. They have 4 starting quality backs which they rotate and 4 receivers that are very capable. This may be one of the most complete Monkeys team in recent history. The local word in town is that this team is as good, if not better, than the championship 2006 team. First round bye is a lock so lets see where we are in a few weeks.”

Monkeys 2009 Line-up

QB1: Peyton Manning
QB2: Brett Favre
RB1: LaDainian Tomlinson
RB2: Chris Johnson
RB3: Matt Forte
RB4: Jamaal Charles
WR1: Anquan Boldin
WR2: Percy Harvin
WR3: Mike Sims-Walker
WR4: Jerricho Cotchery
K: Nate Kaeding
D: San Diego