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Favre stars as NFL's biggest diva
By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports

Brett Favre is going to talk with Minnesota coach Brad Childress about coming out of his latest abbreviated "retirement" and suiting up for the Minnesota Vikings, according to ESPN.

This means if the Vikings want him (and why wouldn't they?) Favre will be their starter in September. There's no real decision here by Favre, if he's talking to the Vikes, he wants to go another season.

He'll pretend it's a wrenching choice, but if you're meeting with the archrival of the team you won a Super Bowl, three MVPs and became an icon with, then the decision is made.

Favre has his sights set on Sunday Nov. 1 in Wisconsin, a game that will feature the story line that Brett Favre covets – Brett Favre, past, present and possibly future.

The entire week leading into that game will be about his supposedly conflicted emotions and his regrets that his passion for football has created this uncomfortable situation – all told through his fan club in the media. John Madden might come out of retirement himself to preside over it all.

Favre wants to go back to Green Bay and beat quarterback Aaron Rogers and general manager Ted Thompson, and get the Lambeau faithful to cheer him while he leaves the field victorious in purple and white.

It'd be the ultimate sign of his power, his popularity, his sheer Brett Favreability.

None of this is reason to criticize Favre. The fact he isn't over his break-up with Green Bay is what it is; a little pathetic but in line with his needy personality. Besides, it's the American Dream to shove it in the face of an unappreciative former boss.

There's also nothing wrong with Favre's interest in a 19th season in the NFL. If he wants to play and a team wants him, who is anyone to say he shouldn't? It's his life. It's his career.

All Favre is doing is what almost every athlete does – play until no one will let you. If being a starting NFL quarterback is the greatest job in the world – and for a guy like Favre, it most certainly is – then why give it up?

Only he did, twice and counting. That doesn't count the three seasons prior he floated the idea of retirement, then rode the adulation of Green Bay fans as reason to return.

Favre has made these decisions into unseemly, shallow soap operas. He's turned his image from a likeable guy into the biggest diva in the league. Brett Favre is what Terrell Owens dreams of becoming.

This is Favre's fifth potential curtain call. He doesn't realize the number of people asking for one more song keeps dwindling.

It's understandable that a guy would get to the end of a season and be so battered physically and emotionally that he calls it quits only to find rejuvenation in the offseason. It just doesn't happen this many times.

Favre is a hopeless egomaniac. He's gotten great mileage from giving terrific interviews and making the older white men who populate the elite of the NFL media feel comfortable. The breathless reports of him being a humble good ol' boy who plays solely for the love of the game never cease.

He's his own worst enemy though, annually undermining that carefully crafted persona.

The problem with Favre is he craves positive feedback from the establishment so much that he keeps doing what it wants. He never should apologize for wanting to compete until he's dragged off the field. Yet he acts how his supporters think he should act – which is to emotionally wrestle with the decision and then tearfully declare that he can't play at anything less than 110 percent.

But he can. And he will.

He wants to return to the Vikings because he isn't past his break-up with the Packers, who dared to be ready to move on, even after he dumped them first. To go to hated Minnesota and assure two games with the Pack, including one on Lambeau Field, is to try to show up his old franchise and drive a wedge between the fans and Thompson/Rogers.

With some fans, he'll do just that.

The marriage, in football terms, has potential. Favre is better than what the Vikings have. The Vikings are good enough to give Favre another shot at the playoffs.

It's a marriage that appears destined and Brett Favre shouldn't have to apologize for that. He should also spare us the act that his hunger for another season of glory is some revelation, that coming out of retirement will be the result of another core-churning contemplation.

That's the part that goes against everything he's always pretended to be.

[Ruckus]

All I can say is what a f'in ass clown.  I still feel like this won't go down and personally I feels as if Rosenfels, Frerotte and even Jackson can hold it down.

You gotta love Wetzel for calling him out like this.  Maybe it's because I've been avoiding all things Brett Favre but I am having difficulty imagining an ESPN writer except for a Page 2 writer having the balls to write something like this.

I commend you Mr. Wetzel

[aMillionDreams]

THAT'S what's great about it.  Even those who loved all up of Favre back in the day are going: really, Brett, again?  Talking about him being a washed-up diva.  This is all stuff I've been saying for five years now.  And now everyone in the sports media is catching up and panning Brett. It's a beautiful thing.  I think he should come out and prove just how overrated he is and to extend his record for most career INTs, concreting his place in infamy.

The only bad part is the Vikings are my NFC team.  I hate that he has to ruin their franchise, too, to prove his point, but I'll be watching for sure.

[TheBigChicken]

jeez talk about going from king of green bay  to what he is now....could one have fallen from grace so....damn....and it's ALL HIS FAULT TO BOOT. hard to feel sorry for a guy who had it All. go away brett

[Penny Lane]

They should just hire him for the first half of the season...

I am looking forward to it, he's still got something left, he proved that last year. If he can still contribute, let him. Plus he is in my top 5 of all time and he gives me a reason to watch on Sundays because the Browns aren't ever on TV around here :-)

[ycartrob]

sure would make that 10/5 Monday Night game at Lambeau just a little bit more interesting.

[Ruckus]

They should just hire him for the first half of the season...

I am looking forward to it, he's still got something left, he proved that last year. If he can still contribute, let him. Plus he is in my top 5 of all time and he gives me a reason to watch on Sundays because the Browns aren't ever on TV around here :-)

Ughh!  We Jets fans no that he can still contribute...for the OPPOSITION! >:(

By something left you mean:

1st in the league in INTs with 22
23rd in the league in YPA with only Russell, Orlovsky, Orton, Thigpen, Wallace and one more behind him
Take away the ridiculous 6TD no INT game against the Cardinals ant home and well, that is one shit season.

All he did was set his own rules and get the Mangenius (Mangina for not having balls to stand up to Favre) fired.

I'd rather have Quinn or Anderson.  But hey, if you think he's that hot, I'll let it slide.

I just hate that fact that he may go to a team where everything else is in place and he has the chance to be the savior.  Personall, I think they can go 11-5 with Sage Rosefels at the helm

WHHHYYYYY!?  

[aMillionDreams]

Seriously, Penny, top five?  I thought you knew football. He's not in the top 25! Make an argument for Brett Favre over any of the following guys that doesn't boil down to you just wanting to get a beer with him:

Joe Montana
John Elway
Terry Bradshaw
Dan Marino
Peyton Manning

Seriously, too many people have too much respect for him, still!  THAT is why he needs to come back!

[Ruckus]

Seriously, Penny, top five?  I thought you knew football. He's not in the top 25! Make an argument for Brett Favre over any of the following guys that doesn't boil down to you just wanting to get a beer with him:

Joe Montana
John Elway
Terry Bradshaw
Dan Marino
Peyton Manning

Seriously, too many people have too much respect for him, still!  THAT is why he needs to come back!

I'm not sure Terry Bradshaw belongs in there.  He might be the most overrated QB out there because he had the greatest D ever.

BUT, I agree with the other 4 and I'd chuck in Johnny Unitas or Tom Brady in there for sure

[aMillionDreams]

Yeah, I picked Bradshaw because you can't argue with four superbowls victories and two superbowl MVPs, especially when you're arguming for Favre who only has one SB victory (Desmond Howard, a special teams player, was the MVP of that game and Reggie White was the star).

[Hawkeye]

Yeah this pisses me off.  I've had enough of Favre.  I'm a Bears fans, but I always liked and respected him even when he was destroying us.  Sheesh, what a clown.  Plus Sage Rosenfels is from MY HOMETOWN and I was looking forward to seeing him maybe actually get to start somewhere.  I think he's got some potential if he can get a full season under his belt.

[Penny Lane]

Seriously, Penny, top five?  I thought you knew football. He's not in the top 25! Make an argument for Brett Favre over any of the following guys that doesn't boil down to you just wanting to get a beer with him:

Joe Montana
John Elway
Terry Bradshaw
Dan Marino
Peyton Manning

Seriously, too many people have too much respect for him, still!  THAT is why he needs to come back!

first off, i am a COLLEGE football girl, i do not have a top 5 NFL QBs! BF is just in my top 5 (as in man crushes) pssshhhht...c'mon!? The NFL quit me when the Browns left for Balt 10 years ago. I have only recently started to forgive them and come back (this year more than ever w/BQ at the helm and another fellow Ohioan Brian Robiskie there now:-) Your list looks pretty thorough, as much as i HATE HATE HATE elway, he deserves to be there.

[aMillionDreams]

There's goes my xmas present:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-vikings-favre&prov=ap&type=lgns

[Ruckus]

There's goes my xmas present:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-vikings-favre&prov=ap&type=lgns

Not so sure now....Again

I hate me some Man Drama :P

[aMillionDreams]

 :'( :'( :'(

I was really hoping he would end with a thud not a whimper.

Oh well, at least more people now see why I've hated this guy for years.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/9863980/It%27s-over:-Favre-not-coming-back

[Ruckus]

:'( :'( :'(

I was really hoping he would end with a thud not a whimper.

Oh well, at least more people now see why I've hated this guy for years.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/9863980/It%27s-over:-Favre-not-coming-back

WRONG! ;D

Had to bump it up top

[aMillionDreams]

Yep, looks like I was wrong on every score. That's what I get for believing anything Favre says.

Did you all the report that the Viking locker room is divided? The wheels are already starting to come off the track. This is going to be a beautiful trainwreck!

[AMightyCaporal]

Yep, looks like I was wrong on every score. That's what I get for believing anything Favre says.

Did you all the report that the Viking locker room is divided? The wheels are already starting to come off the track. This is going to be a beautiful trainwreck!

the guy should have enough sense- its not fair to screw with 50 other peoples lives like that.  Stay retired- come back WITHIN the deadline- dont set it then decide within it, only to change it.  Give me a break!

[Ruckus]

Yep, looks like I was wrong on every score. That's what I get for believing anything Favre says.

Did you all the report that the Viking locker room is divided? The wheels are already starting to come off the track. This is going to be a beautiful trainwreck!

the guy should have enough sense- its not fair to screw with 50 other peoples lives like that.  Stay retired- come back WITHIN the deadline- dont set it then decide within it, only to change it.  Give me a break!

Never underestimate the power of the "SPORTS" ego :P

I am now thoroughly disgusted with myself for participating in a Brett Favre discussion on this site.  I hate myself.  I feel like poo, big poo.

I say Rosenfels, but that's just me.  We shall see.