Brett Favre and the Packers

Brett Favre and the Packers: Does anybody else think this story is batshit crazy?

-This one is straight from the top, that's journalism terms for 'free-styling,' if writing was to be compared to hip hop. Now I just read this story right now about how Brett Favre is asking his longtime team, the Green Bay Packers, for a release because his plans of coming out of retirement was not exactly met with excitement from the Packers' organization.

Favre had just announced his retirement a few months earlier following Green Bay's loss in the NFC championship game to the New York Giants. So now Brett Favre will come out of retirement to play one last season and play for some other team? You mean I might have to watch 'Brett Favre the Chief,' or some lame team like that?

All I know is that if I was a resident of Green Bay, Wisconsin I would absolutely be shitting bricks right now. Your long-time hero, who you've idolized since you were a kid because he was the best player in the league and he happened to play for your crappy town's
team, is coming out of retirement to play for another team.

A retirement that had you crying for a week and I believe was deemed a national day of mourning for the entire city by the mayor of Green Bay. You lived with that Brett Favre life-size stand-up in the corner of your room for years for Christ sakes, and let's be honest it was there for a little too long and you knew that. At some point in what is considered 'adulthood,' it is no longer considered OK to have a giant stand-up of a professional athlete, or for that matter a professional anything, in the corner of your room.

I see I've digressed once again, the point is the day you feared for years finally came a few months ago when Favre claimed he was hangin' 'em up. The only clamor of hope you had was that Brett would miraculously change his mind right before training camp opened up, look his teammate's right in the eyes and say

"OK guys, let's give it another shot."

And then the Packers charge through the season riding the momentum of Favre's last run and win the Super Bowl. A campaign would probably be created at some point announcing "This one's for Brett." And all sorts of paraphernalia would be sold with the phrase scribed across it, from T-shirts to coffee mugs to beer cozies, it would become a phenomenon.

Yes, that was the vision if you could write the future yourself. Well Brett grabbed that pen, and he was on his way to hand it to you, but the Packers organization have stepped in front of him and slapped the proverbial pen out of his hand.

Now you will have to watch the "This one's for Brett" campaign play out for another city. And he'll probably wear some ugly uniform that only conjures up memories for everyone of how horrible Michael Jordan looked in a Wizards jersey. Even though no uni's are as hideous as the Green and yellow garb your Pack dons every Sunday, but your mind has learned to love those colors. I know how it is, that same psyche has seen me sport a whole lot of purple and gold in my lifetime.

I think what I get most from all of this is how crazy the world of professional sports is, you seriously never know what in God's name is going to happen next. From an outsider's perspective a sport consists of two teams playing a game that are a part of an entire league of athletic franchises. But when you really watch sports 365, you see that crazy stories and scenarios come up like this all the time. And sometimes things happen that not even Hollywood can script.

Its always nice to be reminded of why football is awesome. And all sports for that matter. GO FOOTBALL! GO AMERICA!! GO LAKERS!!!

~Castle