Brett Favre Raises His Annual Crop of Cain

There is no question that Brett Favre is a future NFL Hall of Fame quarterback. However, I believe his behavior over the past four years has been both bizarre and not befitting of a player that will be eventually bestowed with NFL Hall of Fame recognition.

At the end of the Green Bay Packers last game of the 2006-2007 football season, Brett Favre appeared teary eyed in an interview, as he indicated that if he had just played his last game he wanted to remember it. Keep in mind at the end of the Packers 2005-2006 season, Favre hinted that he was teetering towards retirement. As we now know, Brett Favre did not retire at the end of the 2005-2006 season. He also did not retire after the 2006-2007 season.

The 2007-2008 campaign turned out well for both the Green Bay Packers as a team and for Brett Favre as a player. Had it not been Favre's ill timed and wobbly pass in The NFC Championship Game against the New York Giants, the Packers might have had an opportunity to challenge the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl. However, Corey Webster and the New York Giants had other plans and the Favre led Green Bay Packers season came to an abrupt end. Soon after the season ended, Brett Favre tearfully announced again that he was retiring from the NFL and the Green Bay Packers. There were many who doubted that his retirement plans would last. Unfortunately, Brett Favre graced the covers of various magazines and all sorts of special memorabilia items were created in honor of Brett Favre's retirement. Unfortunately, I assume many people purchased various Brett Favre retirement memorabilia. Sadly, it seems as though they were taken to cleaners. For as we now know; after playing cat and mouse with the media and the public and joking about his intentions to end his retirement, Favre let the Green Bay Packers know that he wanted to again rejoin their organization.

It is my opinion, right or wrong, Favre was initially shocked when the Green Bay Packers told him that they had moved on without him. Favre tried to force the Packers hand by suggesting that he would be willing to compete with Aaron Rogers for the starting quarterback position. If the Packers had acquiesced to Favre's suggestion, the whole affair could have turned into a popularity contest. That certainly would not have been beneficial to the overall health of the team. The Packers then offered Favre millions of dollars to assist the Green Bay Packer organization in a marketing capacity. This seemed to fuel the Favre fire with even more rage.

So as we now know, Favre filed his reinstatement papers and ultimately succeeded in having the Packers trade him. The Packers traded him to the New York Jets. I felt that Favre initially acted as though he were being shipped to Siberia. I am sure that some people share my speculation that the reason for this was that Favre felt that the New York Jets did not have the talent level that he felt that he was entitled to be surrounded with. Also, it was rumored that he was angry that he was unable to workout an arrangement to be traded to a team in which he could exact revenge upon the Green Bay Packers. A team such as the Minnesota Vikings would have seemed to fit the mold.

Favre to his credit helped lead the New York Jets to a successful first half of the 2008-2009 season. However, due to a torn bicep tendon, Favre faltered and the playoff run for New York Jets fizzled out. At the end of the season, Brett Favre again retired. However, ever since his retirement announcement, there has been a scent in the air that he would be back in the NFL. This odor lingers on today. The aroma is particularly pungent in Minnesota.

Despite the supposed request of Minnesota Head Coach Brad Childress to Favre that he attend the team's recent organized team meetings. Favre opted not to comply. He claimed that he didn't want to create the possibility of multiple media frenzies. However, the whole ordeal has been one continuous media frenzy and rumor mill with Favre seeming to bask in his uncertain, yet suspected return to the NFL as a Minnesota Viking. Here are a just a sampling of the rumors that have recently surfaced regarding Favre: Favre looking at potential residences in Minnesota, Favre's friends and family booking hotels in Green Bay on the weekend Minnesota Vikings come to Titletown and even that the Vikings supposedly alerting Reebock to get ready to produce Brett Favre Minnesota Viking Jerseys, bearing the infamous #4.

It is a free country and Favre is a free man. Ulltimately, he is free to behave however he feels fit, provided it falls within the bounds of the laws of the land. Perhaps, he really continues to have an unquenchable fire for playing football in the NFL. However, at least one person feels that perhaps his true motives are to play on one of the chief rivals of his old mates and avenge the fact that he was not given the rights he believed he was entitled to in Green Bay. At least one person also believes that he wants to play on the Minnesota Viking team so he can again enter the history books as the first and only player to beat all of the teams in the NFL. Lastly, at least one person feels that it could be the combination of both of these desires that fuels Brett Favre's desire to play football in the NFL again.

Ultimately, at least one person feels that should Brett Favre renege on his retirement and join the Minnesota Vikings organization, his decision will be based less on his true love for of the game and infatuation for the Vikings, but rather it will represent a coyly calculated maneuver in which he will one in a position to exact revenge and raise Cain with the Green Bay Packers.

Disclosure: I am not a Green Bay Packer fan.

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