You gotta be kidding me-Favre returns for another year?!

When I first heard it yesterday, I couldn’t really believe what I was seeing and hearing: Brett Favre returning to play for, of all teams, the Minnesota Vi-queens?!!!!

But, yup, it’s true, Brett Favre is back…

ESPN must have thought many people wouldn’t believe it because they even had footage of him getting off the plane in Minnesota and being met by representatives of the Vi-queens at the airport.

This is a bad move-for all involved. Not only does this continue to tarnish Favre’s legacy and make him look greedy as all sin (he is getting $12 mill this year with an option for another $13 mill next year if he should resign), but it also makes the Vi-queens look desperate beyond all measures. Further, what sort of sign does this give not just the other 2 QB’s on this team who thought they were competing for the starting job, but to the rest of the team who had been fed a daily dose of “Favre coming” to their team “wasn’t going to happen”, and it’s “all about integrity and honesty”? After all of this, Favre coming to the Vi-queens just completely shoots down any credibility the coaching staff had built up with that team-regardless of whether they go far in the playoffs or not.

Of course, that is why the Vi-queens did this-they believed they were just one person away from getting too, and winning, the Superbowl-which is laughable in my opinion. There is a reason why in Football they say “Any given Sunday”, and that isn’t going to change just because the Vi-queens went out and got an over the hill quarterback who needs to stay retired…

Brett, what are you doing? Why won’t you stay retired? You are ruining a legacy which you spent 16 years building in Green Bay, and all for what? One more shot at glory? One more big pay day? As if you need either of those. You already had a ring plus another trip to the big dance and, until all this, you had one of the best reputations in all of professional sports. I’m not even a “packer backer”, in fact I’m a Detroit fan, and as such I’m supposed to hate you on principle, but how could I not at the very least respect you for all you have accomplished and the way in which you accomplished all that you did? But now, now you are just another washed up, over the hill, greedy athlete to me, who refuses to hang up the cleats and move on in life. How sad…