I can’t say that this has reached a boiling point.  That happened last year.  I can’t even say that this is the most selfish act I’ve ever seen from an athlete.  That also happened last year.  The line was crossed last year; now it’s blatantly obvious that it didn’t matter if there was a line to begin with.  Brett Favre is an asshole.  He lives in this horribly construed world where he actually thinks that, because of the hype he’s received over the good years of his career, there’s some sort of exemption he gets.  Brett still thinks he’ll never have to buy a beer or a steak in Green Bay ever again.  Brett thinks the fans of Green Bay love him and will continue to love him no matter what.  See how wrong he is?

The fall out between the Packers and Favre last year was ugly.  He wanted to go to the Vikings; we all knew that.  The Packers did everything in their power to not let that happen.  Silly Packers, Brett is clinically crazy, he’ll do all he can to make you feel like an asshole.  Just like in February when he told Ed Werder there was absolutely no scenario that would make him want to come back to football.  Hey Brett, you know what htat makes you?  A liar.  A habitual liar.  An unprofessional and clearly indecisive piece of shit.  Here’s why.

Brett isn’t coming back because he thinks he can play a 16 game season.  He proved that last year when he took the Jets to an 8-3 start before throwing 2 touchdowns and 8 interceptions down the stretch and derailed the Jets playoff hopes, effectively ending Eric Mangini’s stint as head coach in New York.  He can’t play a 16 game season.  Brett’s coming back because he wants to play the Packers twice this season, an incredibly selfish and uncommitted reason to return to football.  Brett couldn’t give half a shit about the other 14 games on the schedule, I guarantee you that.  He’s not playing because he wants the Ravens and Steelers in back to back weeks in October.  He’s playing because his childish mind wants to have the last laugh with the Green Bay Packers.  Go to hell, Brett.

In case you were sleeping under a rock for the past 24 hours, you probably missed out on Brett Favre’s latest announcement of his retirement.  Make this twice in the last two years he’s retired and roughly four or five years in a row we’ve had to deal with this shit.   I turned on ESPN this morning hoping to catch some highlights of last nights overtime thriller between the Los Angeles Kings and New York Islanders but instead was treated to forty five minutes of the hour long broadcast revolving around Brett Favre.  How silly of me; of course the “Worldwide Leader in Sports they want to cover” wasn’t paying attention to worthless hockey.  But, as the day has gone on, it seems like the network has been overcome by the news of this retirement.  A few things I noticed today…

• The damn ticker on the bottom line had its own “Favre” catergory. Okay, not only did it have an announcement of his retirement (which was done via email to the Jets, come on you classless piece of shit, at least make a phone call) but it also had speculation about Favre’s future.  “He never asked for a release, so he could go to another team!!11″  Tony Kornheiser is on the phone right now trying to get a deal done with Favre and one of Kornheisers fellow bald domers, Vikings coach Brad Childress.
• College Football Live spent a segment talking about how Brett Favre changed college football. What?  Are you kidding me?  You must have meant how Favre was brought in to play defensive back at Southern Miss and then made a change to quarterback.  Sure, he holds school records at Southern Miss…..but it’s Southern Miss.  They must have been referring to the game against Tulane where Favre was so hungover he was puking before the game but still lead Southern Miss to victory.  Dock Ellis thinks Favre is a pussy.  And in case you were wondering, he was drafted in the second round by the Falcons and didn’t play with them because head coach Jerry Glanville said it would take a plane crash to put him into the game.  WHAT A COLLEGE LEGEND.
• World class asshole Gene Wojciechowski somehow publishes filth on ESPN.com saying the NFL will never be the same without Brett Favre. Yeah, I guess Gene is right…the NFL is going to miss Favre in a few ways.  Lets list them, shall we?  1.  Flip flopping on retirement.  Nothing screams attention whore like this annual garbage and, while the MLB has Roger Clemens to handle this, Favre shouldered the load for the NFL.  We’ll definitely miss that.  2.  Timely interceptions.  Nobody does it like Brett does.  How have his last two seasons ended?  With passes being thrown right into double coverage and a defensive backs hands of course!  For every game Favre led an epic comeback and single handedly won, he had at least another a few weeks down the road where he’d unleash the dragon and throw three or four blatant interceptions and cost his team the game.  He lead the NFL in interceptions last season for a reason, bros, and it wasn’t because of deflections and lucky grabs.  3.  Last but certainly not least, the circle jerk about grit.  Nobody has as much fun playing the game and is as gritty a player as Brett Favre.  The way he steps into throws and has an all around great time from games in September to Wrangler Jeans commercials in April, nobody really slings the football and plays with as much childlike nature as Brett Favre.  Who throws snowballs at teammates during a playoff rout?  Brett.  Who makes uncanny pitches to check down backs that awe defenders?  Favre.  Who never misses a game because of an injury and will likely end up in a wheel chair in ten years because of it?  #4.

In case you couldn’t tell…I’m real bitter about this subject.  Media whores bother me, and nobody dishes out the two dollar bj’s media bait like Brett does.  Hall of Famer?  Absolutely.  One of the greatest of our generation?  No question.  One of the most overhyped and overplayed people on the planet?  Without a doubt.  Drive safe on your way back to Alabama, or Missouri, or Mississippi, or wherever the hell you live, Brett.  This time, stay there for more than just a few weeks.

Apparantly living in Brett Favre’s shadow was too much for Jets’ rookie QB Erik Ainge, who has been suspended for four game for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policies. Instead of just waiting for Favre’s ageing body to fail him, and the inevitable failure of the other quarterbacks ahead of him on the depth chart, Ainge decided to show some intiative and hit the weights.

Like other recent punishments dished out by the commish, this one will also serve as little more than a slap on the wrist, considering Ainge is already on the IR and out forever for the season.

Short and sweet.

I think that somewhat lost in this entire Brett Favre debacle has been poor Aaron Rodgers.  I say somewhat lost because of course the media is still ramming it down his throat that he has to replace a living legend and one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time.  But it isn’t the pressure that would bother me if I was Aaron Rodgers, it’s the simple fact that the organization has treated him like crap throughout this whole mess.

If I were in that position I would be in the frontoffice demanding a trade and telling them that I wasn’t showing up to training camp anymore until I was traded.  The organization turned their back on Rodgers and stabbed him in the back, there is no reason he shouldn’t do the same now.  I understand he has the starting job in Green Bay, the same job he supposedly had locked up when Brett Favre retired.  Then what happened? Favre said he wanted to come back and the Packers reassured Rodgers the job was still his, when it appeared Favre wouldn’t relent the organization turned to Rodgers and basically said “Okay you’re not the starter anymore, now you have to compete with Brett freaking Favre to become the starter, good luck!”

To me that is a move that no organization should make, and if I were in an organization and they did that to me, it would be time to walk away.  Clearly the promises that the organization makes you aren’t worth jack shit to them.  Rodgers had to be wondering why the Packers were asking for Brian Griese from the Buccaneers.  Did they not trust Rodgers?  Is that why they were going to let Favre have an open competition?  And if it was going to be an open competition with Favre why shouldn’t it have been the same with Griese or second round draft pick Brian Brohm?

What the organization has done to Rodgers is unfair in every sense of the word, and it is to his credit that he is a big enough man to put it behind him and play for the Packers. I know that level of disrespect and lying is soething I couldn’t take.  How can he possibly trust his organization anymore?  Apparently Rodgers can, but I’m pretty sure any lesser man probably wouldn’t be able to.

Thank God this is over.  I can’t tell you how happy I am that this month long circus is over.  Mr. “I don’t want to be a distraction” did everything possible to make his situation a complete and total disaster and finally got his way by being allowed to play football in 2008.  The Packers worked out a deal with the New York Jets to send Favre to the Meadowlands for a conditional draft pick.  Of course once Favre reports to camp, it’ll be another zoo with him practicing.  Not to say that Vernon Gholston won’t be a great player, but I have to wonder whether or not the Jets wish they would have taken Darren McFadden instead because the prospects of an offense with Favre and McFadden is boner-inducing.

I’m not one to jump on the bandwagon of “the Jets are a team on the rise” because finishing above 4-12 and doing anything competent this season in the division would be considered an improvement.  They did, however, go out and sign defensive tackle Kris Jenkins and offensive lineman Alan Faneca to do work in the trenches.  Does the addition of two lineman and Brett Favre take this team from it’s dismal 4-12 depths to a decent record?  I’m skeptical.

One thing we’ve seen from Favre in the past is shaky play when the guys around him are less than stellar.  Favre is a guy who tries to make things happen and when they don’t he tries harder and forces the issue.  How many times have you seen him throw an interception and all you can ask is “What the hell was that?” after the ball gets picked in triple coverage or is thrown so hard it sails and hits the free safety right in the numbers.  Countless.

There’s no way anyone in their right minds thinks this team is going to win the AFC East.  I don’t even see this team being good enough to make the playoffs.  Lets not forget how stingy the AFC is with teams like Jacksonville, Clevelenad, and Cincinnati who are all good enough to win a division but might settle for a wild birth given teams like Indy and Pittsburgh stake claim to the division titles before the season starts.  Sure Favre will win this team a few games and do some crazy things that you’ll double take on and say “he did what?” but at the end of the day, this Jets team is still on the outside looking in, Favre or no Favre.