I called it

Now that all is said and done I can say I told you so. I’m not going to dig up the post, you all saw it so you know I said that when it came right down to it Brett Favre would decide coming back wasn’t worth the effort and he would remain retired. If you press me I’ll dig up the quote, but I knew he didn’t have the guts to come back just to stick it to Ted Thompson. And now all he did, and I thank him profusely, is cause big problems for the Minnesota Vikings. It is clear now that the Vikings’ head coach doesn’t like his current quarterbacks and now with their training camp beginning Thursday he all of a sudden has to reassure his remaining quarterbacks that he had confidence in them all along, even though he was trying to replace them. Good luck with that.Favre is a drama queen and his long courtship with the Vikings proved that. And while I’d like to think this thing is over I can’t help but feel we may have to go through this again before the season starts. But only the Vikings would give Favre that leeway. One of the funniest things I read in my life was the suggestion that if Aaron Rodgers were to get hurt the Packers would call on Favre to bail them out. Leave it to sell-out Mike Florio and NBC Pro Football Talk to come up with that one. Thompson would call Jeff George long before he would call Brett Favre. I can’t see Favre returning to Lambeau as a retired player for a long time, especially if Thompson and the Packers start winning. Myself, as a fan, would welcome number four back with open arms to be the ceremonial captain and toss the coin before the game. In time I will forget his childish behavior and one-year bust in New York. Much like I forgot the way the Packers’ newest inductees into the Packers’ Hall of Fame – Dorsey Levens and Antonio Freeman – left the team.I do believe this is it for Favre and it will be interesting to see if the Packers will reach out to him in hopes he will be an ambassador for the Packers like Bart Starr is still to this day, forty-some years since he won five NFL Championships in Green Bay. Packers’ fans will forgive and forget like I said I already will do. I just hope it happens sooner than later. Won’t be this year, I wouldn’t think. How about next year’s home opener? Might be a couple of years later than scheduled, but by then all should be good on both sides of this story. The Packers having a good season this year would make it all that much more special.My final, final, final, etc., word on Favre is just to say thank-you Brett. Thanks for sparing us Packers’ fans another distracted season. Now we can again look back at Favre’s glory days and once again love the player who along with Reggie White, Mike Holmgren and Ron Wolf took the Packers to their first Super Bowl win in 30 years. I loved the the recent series by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in re-running articles about some of the Packers’ greatest wins. It was amazing stuff. Wolf, Holmgren and Favre started it, Reggie White added the final piece of the puzzle. We won’t talk about the next year.Now, let’s get ready for 2009 and what I think is going to be a great year in Green Bay. All the pieces are in place, a potentially great offense, an improved defense and an easy schedule. Like Al Bundy would say – “Let’s rock!”.