Either way, this Brett Favre business will likely end gloriously

Brett Favre apparently has the itch to come back and play football, which may or may not be a strange side effect of abusing pain killers. Either way, this story seems to be one with disaster written all over it, which is to say that it is delightful for me and readers of this here weblog.

If Favre really wants to play football next year, then it would seem that the only reason he retired is to skip Green Bay’s offseason workout program. You know, the workouts that get a player ready for the grind a 16-game NFL schedule. It’s likely that Farve isn’t in great shape right now, and since he’s like 100 years old, doing so will take longer than ever before. After all, I’m not sure how much of a workout one can get from playing backyard football in Louisiana, especially when wearing such comfortable jeans. You don’t want to get those puppies dirty.

Clearly, though, the best part of this story is how the Packers almost certainly want nothing to do with their gun-slinging legend. As the still mighty MJD wrote on Yahoo, no one could blame the Pack if they just told Favre to go to hell. Or Minnesota. They’ve been preparing Aaron Rodgers for this momentous occasion for years, and all reports this offseason have been glowing. Why let Old Man Rivers come in and ruin everything?

I’m not sure which situation is more fun, if the Packers tell Favre they don’t want him, or if Favre does come back and gets pulverized from the start. I suppose option three is that Favre just stays retired, which is great as well.

Ideal scenario: Jared Allen (one of my fav non-Bears in the NFL, though now that he’s a Viking that may change) breaks Favre in half on the first play opening night in Green Bay. Then Favre comes back from injury (what great courage!) and Dusty Dvoracek mangles him week 16 at home, ending all Packer playoff chances.