Favre Clears Up Nothing

In between being captivated by Josh Hamilton turning Yankee Stadium into his own personal launching pad and being mystified yet impressed that Greta Van Susteren's stiff upper lip hasn't held her back in her career, I came to this conclusion about Brett Favre's attempt at backing out of retirement.

He looks like a fraud and is doing a tremendous job sullying his "legacy."

Watching his Fox News interview with Van Sustern the upshot I gained was that Favre's basically trying to shoot his way out of Green Bay by putting the Packers in an impossible position then asking the fans to keep on lovin' Brett no matter what uniform he wears.

"I am guilty of retiring early and there is a reason for that," said Favre. "(I don't want people to think) He asked for his release because he doesn't want to play in Green Bay. Them moving on does not bother me. It doesn't. I totally understand that. If I’m gonna play it's gonna be 100 percent commitment and that's in March. '(The Packers should say) We've moved on and we'll work with Brett.' Don't make stuff up or give half of the truth. It's ridiculous, it really is."

What's ridiculous is that Favre has three years remaining on his contract. He's not a free agent but wants to be treated like one. He wants to play by different rules than everyone else. He wants Packers fans to love him still and, to do that, he's mounting a passive aggressive crusade against McCarthy and Thompson. Never mind that McCarthy's the one who forced him to rein in his careless quarterbacking and made him PART of a winner again and stopped letting everything be all about Brett. Forget that Thompson has built a very good team around him.

To borrow a phrase from Favre, it's ridiculous, Brett. It really is.