Trent Green Finally Traded

The Kansas City Chiefs have finally pulled the trigger on Trent Green, trading their long-time starting QB to the Miami Dolphins for a fifth-round pick. That shrill noise you hear is Viking fans screaming, “We could’ve had Trent Green for a lousy fifth-round pick?”

Not that the Vikings were ever in on Green – but maybe they should’ve been. Is anyone in Viking land, except maybe that delusional wacko at the Daily Norseman and perhaps Brad Childress, really comfortable about the idea of Tarvaris Jackson as our QB with only Brooks Bollinger and Drew Freaking Henson as our fall-backs?

The question is moot now, as Green is packing his bags for the Dolphins. Which likely leaves last year’s opening-day starter Daunte Culpepper on the outside looking in. Viking fans who might be entertaining the shred of a notion that Culpepper could enjoy a return engagement in purple might as well quit thinking that right now. There’s no way Childress takes Culpepper back – not after the unpleasantness between them last off-season, when Culpepper acted like a bigger jerk than Alec Baldwin and Akon put together, and got himself traded. Childress, I’m sure, will never forget Culpepper re-habbing his knee in the gym between the Chinese laundry and the Kinko’s (or whatever the hell it was), instead of being back in Minnesota like a “team guy.” Plus, Childress is far too proud to ever admit he made a mistake – which he would be tacitly doing if he ever took Daunte back.

So, no Trent Green for the Vikes, and no Daunte. Suddenly Brad Johnson doesn’t look so bad.