John Sullivan comments on Favre and 2009
Aug 18, 2017 7:49:06 GMT -6
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Post by Funkytown on Aug 18, 2017 7:49:06 GMT -6
It has been eight years since veteran center John Sullivan joined legendary quarterback Brett Favre on the Minnesota Vikings, the last stop in what became a Hall of Fame career.
But hearing Favre's name still makes Sullivan's right buttock sting.
"He used to smack your ass so hard," Sullivan, now the Los Angeles Rams' starting center, said after a recent practice. "You'd be standing in a walk-through and you had to keep your head on a swivel because you just knew if Brett came up behind you, you were getting one, and you were going to have a handprint on there for a couple days."
Sullivan was Favre's center in 2009, the year he made the Pro Bowl and led the Vikings to the NFC Championship Game at the age of 40. He still laughs at all the times Favre used to make stuff up as he went along. Like that one two-minute drill in Pittsburgh, when Favre didn't bother calling plays or protections. At one point he barked instructions to one of his receivers, yelled at Sullivan to snap him the ball and completed a five-yard out. The offense and defense was so flat-footed that the linemen didn't even make contact with one another.
"He was an amazing player in terms of having a very natural feel for the game; instincts," said Sullivan, also Favre's center during his final season in 2010. "You talk about a youthful exuberance about the sport -- he was 40 years old and he was playing like he was a 10-year-old kid in the backyard. It was refreshing for everybody. I was a 23-year-old kid fresh out of college, and even for me it was refreshing at that point in time."
But hearing Favre's name still makes Sullivan's right buttock sting.
"He used to smack your ass so hard," Sullivan, now the Los Angeles Rams' starting center, said after a recent practice. "You'd be standing in a walk-through and you had to keep your head on a swivel because you just knew if Brett came up behind you, you were getting one, and you were going to have a handprint on there for a couple days."
Sullivan was Favre's center in 2009, the year he made the Pro Bowl and led the Vikings to the NFC Championship Game at the age of 40. He still laughs at all the times Favre used to make stuff up as he went along. Like that one two-minute drill in Pittsburgh, when Favre didn't bother calling plays or protections. At one point he barked instructions to one of his receivers, yelled at Sullivan to snap him the ball and completed a five-yard out. The offense and defense was so flat-footed that the linemen didn't even make contact with one another.
"He was an amazing player in terms of having a very natural feel for the game; instincts," said Sullivan, also Favre's center during his final season in 2010. "You talk about a youthful exuberance about the sport -- he was 40 years old and he was playing like he was a 10-year-old kid in the backyard. It was refreshing for everybody. I was a 23-year-old kid fresh out of college, and even for me it was refreshing at that point in time."
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