Vikings running back Adrian Peterson hasn’t been in close contact with Brett Favre this offseason. But after seeing Favre last week, Peterson says he expects them to be teammates this year -- and he’s willing to beg Favre to come back if that’s what it takes.
“I saw him down in L.A. for the first time this offseason, down at the ESPYs,” Peterson told the Oklahoman while in town for a football camp. “Looking in his eyes, I got the sense he was coming back. I’ll be going down to his house, telling him, ‘Favre, I need you back.’”
Peterson said reaching the Super Bowl would carry extra weight for him this season because the game is in Texas, where he was born and raised. And he says the Vikings need Favre at quarterback if they’re going to get there.
“I grew up watching Favre,” Peterson said. “I’m as big a fan of his as the people that’s watching him. People in Green Bay that’s been watching him all his life. Just to have the opportunity to play with him and come up short, it would definitely feel good [if he came back] this year [and we] hoisted up that trophy [together] in Dallas, Texas.”
For Favre, whose own agent thinks he’s a drama queen, it must be music to his ears to hear Peterson talk about him in such glowing terms. When Favre eventually reports to the Vikings, he’ll surely say he decided to return for another season because he loves his teammates as much as they love him.