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Given the current circumstances surrounding the quarter back, it makes a lot of sense. The Wrangler commercials -- way too much clothes for a man of Favre's stature. His head coach, the much-maligned Brad Childress, trades away his best wide receivers. Plus, his best friend on the Minnesota Vikings, placekicker Ryan Longwell, is a free agent after season's end.
If history is a predictor, then Longwell leaving means Favre will as well. So why isn't anybody making a big deal out of the Favre-to-retirement news?
I don't know, maybe because it is November.
We are used to our annual Favre-Fest come August. The summer is coming to an end, training camps are long in our rear-view mirror and we are badgering about why there is still pre-season football games.
In other words, we love nothing more than daily coverage of Rachael Nichols setting up camp outside of Favre's lawn in Hattiesburg, Miss. I'm sure they have exchanged cell phone numbers.
The decision from the indecisive was barely exciting enough to make headlines. Go ahead and Google "Brett Favre" news in the past week; one, maybe two stories pop up. It begs the question, though: doesn't anybody care?
Maybe it is because it is the same old story just a different years. When you put us through the retirement drama each and every summer, and really dial it up the past four years, it's just not doing it for us anymore.
Brett, if I can call you Brett, let me put it out there for you. It is like a relationship -- you got to keep things interesting. We know you are going to retire and un-retire at least once before the 2011 season; that's like telling me Boise State is going to get screwed out of the BCS Championship Game.
Want to catch us all off-guard? Demand a trade to the Detroit Lions, or sign a one-year contract with the Chicago Bears. Tell us all you are going to play another season, and then retire off to a landscaping career, or do a commercial for the Verizon family plan.
But don't tell me your plans before Thanksgiving. We all saw your eyes shifting, your smile rearing when you said you're done after this year. You make Keanu Reeves look like an Oscar-winner.
hey dude chill he's a true american hero who makes great decisions with the football, as well as with camera phones. i expect him to get on dancing with the stars on the bum ankle asap, but odds are he'd have to take too many hits then too due to poor offensive line play
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