Brett Favre is to appear on “On the Record with Greta” tonight on Fox News network. Presumably to rip the Packers’ general manager Ted Thompson for not begging him back this year. People, it is time to come to grips. Are you a Packers’ fan or simply a Brett Favre fan? You can be both like myself, but the Packers come first. My guess is Favre unloads on Thompson for drafting Aaron Rodgers and pushing him out the door. Well, if Favre was half a man he would have told Thompson from day one he was going to play for three or more years and then the Packers wouldn’t have had to draft Rodgers. Be a man Brett, please.  This is getting sick. If Favre wants a job handed to him I need someone to cut my lawn every week or so. I’ll pay twelve bucks an hour, no references required.

I know I reneged on my promise not to mention Favre’s name again in this blog. I guess I had an itch to comment again. Then again, maybe I didn’t. I don’t know. Bring back Brett. No don’t. Yeah do. No don’t. I know you are but what I am I? Whatever. Watch the whiner on Fox at 9:00 and rip me in the morning.

One of my old favorite bands is named Sick of it All. They should play opening day. Waah, waah waah…

This is it for me. I don’t care if Brett Favre goes on to win 20 Super Bowls for another team, I don’t want him in Green Bay thanks to the idiot fans I assure you I am not a part of. To be sitting at home on a Sunday afternoon after a great round of golf and get a phone call from some automated system giving me a poll about Brett Favre asking me if he is being treated fairly makes me want to puke. My caller ID says “Favre Poll” and the number is 202-552-1160. The questions are all pro Favre and all against the Packers. If it wasn’t for the joke “Favre 08″ rally that was held at Lambeau Field today by a couple of bozos that actually drew about 200 bozos, which cracked me up, I might really be sick. But how can you not laugh at that?

Someone said Favre might be bipolar and I’m beginning to wonder if that isn’t true. How else can you explain his behavior of the last few years and especially the last few months? Remember when he was asked last year if the Packers were in tough position because they didn’t know if he was going to play or not? Favre said “What are they going to do? Cut me”? That shows me he doesn’t give a crap about the Packers so why should the Packers feel any different toward him?

I’m so sick of this BS I don’t care either way, but to get a phone call like that makes me mad but without a doubt shows me who Packers’ fans are and who Brett Favre fans are. The idiots calling me are Favre fans. I’m a Packers’ fan, and an owner, I care about ten years from now just as much as I do about 2008.

This is my last take on Favre. I’m done. I would love to have him come back and back up Aaron Rodgers. Not a bad deal should Rodgers fail to play well or get hurt. Favre made his bed in March, then unmade it, then made it again, and he should have to deal with it. As a 17-year NFL veteran one would think he would be confident he could win his job back over a third-year player. I think Favre wants his job  handed to him on a silver platter or he won’t play in Green Bay. Isn’t that weird when you think about it? Any other position on the field is open to competition, why should quarterback be any different? Oh yeah, because it’s Brett Favre.

All this drama has me to the point where I don’t even care what the Packers do this year, it won’t be good enough anyway. If the Packers win 15 games with Rodgers the butt-holes will say they would have won 16 with Favre. Unless Brett Favre is on the roster in two weeks and one day when training camp starts, this is the last you will hear me mention his name. I will no longer fuel the fire. Aaron Rodgers is my quarterback, win lose or draw.

Let me have it. I don’t care.

Flame on…

How can this be? How can one of the NFL’s most popular players wear out his welcome in one of the most forgiving cities in the league? By not staying true to word is one reason, by making the Packers look bad in the process is another. One would think that a 38-year old man would be a little more mature. In a span of three weeks in March Favre retired, un-retired, and then re-retired. Like any employer, you have to eventually draw the line and move on. After Favre’s flip-flopping burned them for the final time, the Packers did move on. Favre had to know his actions in March would leave the Packers cool to yet another change of mind so to come out and ask for your release and start a campaign of disinformation about general manager Ted Thompson is very discouraging. If it wasn’t for the players Thompson put around Favre last year Favre wouldn’t have had the chance to blow another home playoff game and be forgiven for it.

Thompson is not the cause of this controversy, Favre is. Why not be a man of your word. If Favre wasn’t ready to make a decision in March then he shouldn’t have done it. Maybe the Packers would have released or traded him then if they didn’t want him. Certainly it wouldn’t have come to this. Thompson said today that Favre is welcome to come back and back up Aaron Rodgers, but we all know that won’t happen. The Packers also won’t just release Favre and let him go to the Vikings, so what is best for the team would be to trade Favre to another team outside the division or convince Favre that he should stay retired.

If Favre thinks he can just walk into another team’s training camp and have great year he will most certainly  be disappointed. The Packers under Mike Sherman gave Favre a free pass in the offseason and Favre responded with some of his poorest seasons ever, culminating with his now infamous 29 interceptions in 2005. Even if he played for and started for the Packers this year, I doubt he comes close to the numbers he put up last year. 2007 was a once-in-a-lifetime year for a player of Favre’s age and that is why it was such a perfect time to retire. To see Favre ride the pines due to injury or poor play will be hard to take.

The pressure on Rodgers just magnified tenfold as well. The fact that the Packers have chosen him over Favre to be the starter says a great deal about the Packers belief that they will still be a winning team with or without Favre. The Packers better win now or many good men will be out of work and the future of the Packers will be in serious doubt. In todays NFL, no way a team in the league’s smallest market survives another 29-year losing drought like they had in the 70s and 80s. The team will be forced to fold and it’s assets sold with the money going to the Green Bay chapter of the American Legion. All because Favre couldn’t make up his mind. I wouldn’t want to be Rodgers.

If the Packers trade Favre and go on to have a great season, then these last few weeks will be forgotten and Thompson will be proved right. If they struggle and Favre pulls off the miracle and has another great season for someone else, Thompson and head coach Mike McCarthy will not be around long. Sad times indeed in Titletown, USA.

I must say, for an NFL Iron Man on the field, Brett Favre sure is a wuss off the field. After seeing this Favre is coming back crap the past two weeks and trying to avoid chiming in, I’m chiming in. The way I see it is one of two ways, either is Favre is purposely trying to screw the Packers over and make them trade him or he is just too dumb to realize the furor the slightest of comments he makes can create. Now we all know that Favre is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but even he can’t be this stupid. I think instead of politely asking the Packers to trade him, he realizes his power with the media and is trying to screw the Packers for not begging him to come back this year.

This could have been handled with class very easily. All Favre had to do was hold a press conference and say something to effect of “hey, I have nothing against the Green Bay Packers or the Packers’ fans or the state of Wisconsin, and I will always be a Packer fan at heart. But I would like to finish my career with a warm weather team”. What is so hard about that? I think most fans would understand, how could they not after seeing Favre melt down in Chicago and in the NFC Championship game when temperatures were below zero. Those conditions used to be right in his wheelhouse. Not anymore. While I wish Favre would stay retired, I do believe now that he will be the starting quarterback against the Vikings the night they were going to retire his number. Not even Ted Thompson would trade Favre without Favre coming out publicly and approving it and even then most fans will want Thompson stoned in the town square. PFT reported today that Thompson might be in danger of physical harm if he traded Favre. Highly unlikely, the worst Packers’ fans have been known to do is shoot the coaches dog.

I’m sorry, but I don’t understand this at all. For the last five years Favre has cited many reason why he should retire, from not having confidence with the ball in his hand the last two minutes to the demands of the offseason, the list goes on and on. Then, all of a sudden, after retiring four months ago, all those things are no problem. To me this could just be a diabolical plan to screw the Packers and gain freedom to play wherever he wants. And after all the Packers have done for Brett Favre, how despicable that would be? At this point I’m clinging to the comments Favre text-messaged to the Biloxi Herald buddy of his that said it was all rumor and there was no reason for a media uproar. But this text messaging thing is also disturbing. Favre supposedly test-messaged general manager Ted Thompson in the last few days. What are you Brett, 12 years old? How was recess today? Of course that same bozo reporter also said last week that Favre retired because he didn’t like Ted Thompson. I guess it’s hard for Favre to like a guy who took a 4-12 team and turned it into a 13-3 team. Should have been undefeated I guess.

If Favre comes back the Packers really have no choice but to welcome him back and trade Aaron Rodgers. I hope Brian Brohm is the real deal because a Favre return means the Packers are starting over at quarterback. Three years of tutoring Rodgers are completely wasted. Yes, the Packers could have picked somebody other than Rodgers with that pick four years ago and they probably would have had Favre been a man and committed to play a couple of more years. But noooooooo, Favre, like he did last year when the Packers could have had Randy Moss, would not commit. In the end, Favre is going to cost both Thompson and McCarthy their jobs, one way or the other. For Thompson, he is the man who ran Favre out of town despite turning the team around overnight talent-wise. McCarthy will be trying to win with a rookie quarterback if due-to-be-hurt Favre does indeed get hurt this year.

And finally, while the Packers have the salary cap room, my hunch is they kept it because they, like everybody else figured Favre would change his mind, so that had to have an effect how much money they would spend in free agency or other player acquisitions. They had to keep thirteen million open just in case. So the entire draft strategy and offseason that was designed after Favre retired can be scrapped. Can’t wait for that meeting by McCarthy. “You know all that stuff we worked on for three months in OTAs and mini-camp? Forget about it”. A recipe for disaster if you asking me.

If Favre wants to play again and doesn’t want to play for the Packers, that’s fine. Why he is trying to make the team that gave him everything look bad is beyond me. Like I said, all he has to do is be honest and the fans will always love him, no matter where he plays. I still love him, but like any loved one, sometimes they need a slap upside the head to knock them back into reality. Hopefully Favre gets that slap soon, but judging by the comments of his money-hungry family, it won’t come from them.

Favre is back, for better or worse. Both Favre and the Packers could be headed for destruction. How sad is that?