Bret Favre's Fake Retirement

This is torture for Green Bay Packer fans. Torture, I say!

Forget Guantanamo Bay or the Abu Ghraib: what fans from Wisconsin are going through appears to be the Work of the Devil and some pretty good work it is. There stands one of the greatest men every to play the game of professional football: Bret Favre. He stuck by the Packers through thick and thin, gave them back their swagger and did virtually everything the team ever asked him to do. He never got in trouble (least nothing that had to do with dog fighting in the backwoods of Virginia) and always gave the game 100%. He had a great season in 2007, and nearly took the lowly Pack back to the Super Bowl.

So, this spring when he announced his retirement, fans were sad but understood when a true warrior needs to walk away while he can still hold his head up. The "un-retirement" rumors started almost immediately, but that happens almost any time a big names walks away from the game. But the voices stayed there and didn't go away, and as the 2008 training camps opened, word came that Favre really didn't want to retire, he felt he had been pushed out as the Packers wanted to move on! For shame: the Devil at his best.

Now the agony of what to do next for the Packers and their fans: cut his tired old ass lose, bring him back for what would likely be an ugly season, or trade him to some Canadian or Arena Football League team for a bag of magic beans. There's not a good option anywhere in there.,

But in the end, this could all make NFL fans appreciate their teams and players more, or at least make them cut back on the obsenities when they blog about them or stalk them. So, it may well be a good thing, a perfect Act of God fake-out, just like the one Bret's been pulling on us these past few months.

It's a Draw!