Kicker Ryan Longwell played nine seasons for the Green Bay Packers before heading west to finish his career, spending six years with the Minnesota Vikings. You know how we feel about guys who take that career path and you know how we feel about the Minnesota Vikings.
Garbage.
Longwell did come back to Green Bay to retire as a Packer with one of those one-day deals. That might have been the first indication that he didn’t really think much of the Vikings.
His comments this week are definitely the second.
“From my perspective, and I don’t know if Brett [Favre] would say this [publicly] — I know he’s shared with me — we would not be nearly as appreciative of everything that the Packers are had we not seen it from the other side,” Longwell said.
“And that’s a perspective that I’m so thankful and blessed that I was able to get. Because for me, you come into the NFL and your first team is the Packers and you think it’s [the same everywhere in] the NFL. Going to Minnesota really made me appreciate everything the Packers are. Because it’s not the same way everywhere else. For sure.”
Sure, Longwell doesn’t come right out and say the Vikings are a terrible organization. That’s clearly what he’s insinuating, though.
That the Vikings are definitively not on par with the Packers.
That’s something we’ve always known, of course.
It’s funny to hear someone who’s been in both places say it, though.