jealous much? you have done nothing with your worthless life, and the best you can do is take a shot at one of the greatest football players of all time.

No way would Farve lay down like that against the Pack, although I get where you're coming from. First hurdle is that the Pack has to release him. I think that's a long shot. My take is here:

http://drivingwithrope.blogspot.com/2008/07/favre-martches-down-field.html#links

If I bought a Favre Green Bay jersey and painted it purple, would that be bad?

A Vikings jersey need not be stained by the name of Farve. Let him go fail for the Bears. Watching him fail will be slightly amusing, but not if it's as a Viking.

Just to clarify, the above fantasy isn't really about Brett Favre. Or, it's about Brett Favre only in his role as a beacon of hope and of life and of all that is good for diehard Packers fans, who have built their sense of self around idolizing him for the past 16 years. It is about crushing that hope, that bond, indeed that very identity, to shards.

The way to most effectively accomplish this is for Favre a) to join the arch-nemesis Vikings (and not the Bears, the Jets, or any other team) and b) to fall flat on his face.

My fantasy, I repeat, isn't really about seeing Favre fail as a Viking. It's about what that would do to those who have spent the past 16 years idolizing him.

Here’s what I’m thinking: The New York Times lands Jonathan Kaminsky. Despite a glorious stint at The City Pages, where he composed penetrating, ground-shaking articles on local Spanish language radio broadcasts and debt collection, Kaminsky is demoted at the Times, where he is reduced to fetching coffee and cigarettes for real journalists.

Kaminsky gets a second chance in the smaller news market of Nome, Alaska, where he is able to display his glittering talents by writing about the perils of Eskimo skedding and ice-fishing. After years of surviving on the meager, paycheck to paycheck existence of a wanna-be journalist, Kaminsky re-enrolls in community college where he eventually earns his degree in retail packaging.

Kaminsky finds that he is eventually able to combine his journalistic passions with his stellar educational credentials by bagging copies of US Weekly and Seventeen Magazine. In such a circumstance, it doesn’t matter whether Vikings make the playoffs. It doesn’t matter whether Favre is enshrined in football’s Hall of Fame after earning a Super Bowl Ring, three league MVP awards, and millions of dollars in salary and endorsements. What matters is that a mean-spirited, wanna-be writer like Kaminsky eventually finds his true calling in life, as an embittered failed writer who puts his verbal skills to use at the checkout stand by asking people, “Paper or plastic?”

Please, whoever is in charge of such things: Make it so.

Favre would make an excellent addition to the Vikings, as a replacement for Gus Ferrotte, to mentor the young Turks that the Vikes have in the QB position.

To expect the old man to be more than that would be just plain nostalgia, the same sort of wishful thinking that brought in Warren Moon and Brad Johnson (reprise reprise)and Herschel Walker.

A team isn't just judged by it's own merit, it's judged by it's arch-enemies and we're poorer for Green Bay's loss. There's no pride in beating mediocre teams!

To even consider bringing in Favre for the purpose of hurting the Packers or Packer fans would be an act so reprehensible it would justify firing the Viking's coaching staff and GM. Purple Pride isn't based on playing adolescent emotional revenge games, it's based on excellence and loyalty.

Kaminsky, you've lost sight of that, and lost this Viking fan's respect.

- DC Purple

If the Vikings get Favre, I see it going down something like one of the last lines of "My Cousin Vinny."

You know, this could be a sign of things to come. You win all your games, but with the Packers help, right? you win game after game, and then after wards you have to go up to to the Packers and you have to say, "thank you."

Here's a tip: The Green Bay Packers have the largest fan base in the NFL. Period. And it was the largest fan base in the NFL even before Brett Favre arrived. Yes, even during the 80's when the Packers were generally floating somewhere near the bottom every year. So, as much as Packers fans idolize or like watching Brett Favre, watching him fail miserably for another team would do little or nothing in destroying the "beacon of hope and of life and of all that is good for diehard Packers fans". Especially so if Rogers is actually playing worth a damn.

WOW...for a first time reader of all your cynical writings, I am amazed. As a true 'PACKER' fan, I cannot imagine why everyone looks for the bad in this situation. Brett Favre has played for the Green Bay Packers for 16 years. He has more records then most any other quarterback. Why should he have to even think about playing for any other team? The Green Bay Packers management should accept him back with open arms and welcome him.
To think that he could be traded to another division rival is unimaginable. And, if in all their wisdom, they decide to do just that, then the Minnesota Vikings would be just the team to do that with. I cannot say that I have been a fan of the purple people, but I would definately be rooting for them with Brett at the helm.
Once again, I dont think this is something we should even be thinking about. Brett should be wearing the green and white like he has for the last 16 years......

You know, this is nothing more then "BIG Business" it is not sports any longer! ALL of the teams can go out of business for all I care. These guys make way too much money for doing way too little. They destroy their health and are corrupt, not all just most! The pack is offering BF twenty (20) million to stay retired!! For God's sake, I'll take that kind of money for doing NOTHING! How stupid can you get? This kind on mentality just goes to show us how incredibly STUPID people are and how wasteful we are. With people starving to death and people without medical care and people losing their homes in this day and age, we allow people to make this kind of money to work a few hours a week and half kill themselves for what? Sports of any kind are just not fun anymore. They are as big as big oil. Wake up America and help people across the United States not one man make a fool of himself! If you need genuine entertainment go watch a little league game and be entertained to your hearts content! This is far better then ANY pro game you can come up with for sure!!!

Hey there, Jonathan... I want to call you an idiot, but you're probably not bright enough to understand what an idiot is. Get a mirror, look at yourself, and then you'll know...

Favre has never played like that in his entire career. Mock him for the interceptions, but he has a great TD to INT ratio. If you throw more TD's than INT's it will result in wins. It is just how that kind of thing works, ya know. Most winningest QB in history...etc.

Why not THIS for a scenario: Favre takes the Vikings to the playoffs and beats the Packers in Green Bay. Favre is cheered "FAVRE FAVRE FAVRE!" Rocky movie style, the crowd chants for Thompson's head, and the Vikings go on to the Superbowl and win similar to Denver under Elway (Aging but capable QB behind a great running back)?

Don't you want to win the big game? You'd think a real Vikings fan would know how infrequently great QB's come around. You had yours in the past with Fran Tarkenton. Now a hack like you thinks there is a greatness in Jackson? It isn't going to happen, pal. Not anytime soon.