Five Freakin' Favre Things

1. So last night, I decided enough was enough. I'm out here digging ditches with all these training camps and all anyone cares about is what's up with Brett Favre. Or at least that's all anyone talks about. Usually, the person talking is noting that they're sick of hearing about Favre which is ironic since they're talking about it and forcing ME to hear it. Anywhooooo, while driving to Eagles camp, I decided to pull the ripcord on going to this weekend's Hall of Fame Game in Canton and go to Green Bay instead.

2. I was set to go to Green Bay on Thursday night when my boss, a tall, debonair cat name of Brian W. Gilmore, calls and says, "Are we sure we want to go to Green Bay? What if he doesn't come in, then we're up there for nothing." Devil's advocate stuff. And I saw his point. But the reality is, if Favre's reinstated he's a Packer again. And then he's either at camp or being "locked out" of camp. Either way, it's a story. And if they trade him, it's really a story there and wherever he goes.

3. So I could either go to Green Bay and find a fresh angle (yeah, right) on the Favre Saga on Friday and Saturday or stay in Canton and cover the Hall of Fame game knowing all the while that something could happen in Green Bay that would trump anything else going on.

4. It just occurred to me. How pissed off are this year's Hall of Famers going to be if Favre steals their thunder this weekend. And if they aren't  because they're over the moon with joy, what about the Hall of Fame folks, the NFL and the rest of the Hall of Famers?

5. Clinching my decision to go to Green Bay (which I am going to do) was a conversation with Jason Wilde, the Packers beat writer for the Wisconsin State Journal and one of the best in the beat-writin' business. His take? He said that the Packers are petrified Favre will defy the team's request he stay away from camp, that he'll come into town on Friday or Saturday and then want to play in the family night game at Lambeau Field on Sunday night. "Then 60,000 people will get to voice their opinion and they don't want that," said Wilde.

I gots to gets to Green Bay.