Weighing In

No, no one has been waiting for Rambler's take on Brett Favre. But I'm feeling uninspired on the poetry front, completely brain dead on the fiction front and generally just not all that motivated. Probably how Brett felt back in March.

Favre was a great but I understand why the Pack wants to move on. Perhaps some Favre fans need to look at the footage of the Giants game one more time. Take one last peak at what was likely his final pass in a Green Bay uniform and remember how many other times over the past decade Favre made bad decisions that cost Green Bay a game.

Sure, he led many great comebacks. But how many of those comebacks were comebacks because of his earlier mistakes? I'm not ripping on the guy. He is a first ballot Hall of Famer and one of the most exciting guys to play the game. But he was also incredibly reckless, made lots of mistakes and should know it's time to walk off the field in one piece.

Yes, that's hard to do. Lord knows I didn't exit my career by choice and if somone offered me another shot I'd probably jump. But Brett had to know that he'd probably change his mind and want to come back. Instead, he said he was retiring. True, the Packers have wanted him gone for a few years now, but in the end he made the decision and they moved on. If he was a boyfriend pulling this, every advice columnist would tell the woman to stay strong and send him packing.

The Pack should send him whereever he wants to go. Let him play for the Bears. Who cares? You'll face him twice a year and guarantee in at least one game he'll throw two picks that will set you up for the win.

And let's not even get into poor Aaron Rogers. He has totally kept his cool during all this and he knows that the minute he throws a pick, that crowd will turn on him.
The poor dude had some six year-old at practice today telling him he sucks and no one loves him. We've come a long way from say it ain't so Joe.