Tamper This!

Another chip into my theory regarding the Pack's notorious boy-wonder.

The AP is reporting that The Packers have brought up tampering charges against the Vikings (specifically their offensive coordinator), regarding Brett Favre's potential return. http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-vikings-favre&prov=ap&type=lgns

While the No. 4 would look awful good in purple and gold I don't think he is worth jeopardizing the future of the franchise.

What really confuses me through all this is how little communication everyone has with one another. I think any kind of "tampering charges" should be summarily dismissed on grounds of nobody has a freaking clue what is going on.

So here is a cast list:

Ted Thompson: (GM of Packers) has said he would like to see the Packers look towards the future with new QBs and would welcome Brett Favre's return... (Yes that was an oxymoron)

Brett Favre: Has come in and out of the retirement train over the last 5 years than Anne Heche has from the closet. So he doesn't even know what he wants... but he sure as hell wants it!

Brad Childress: Possibly the only guy who like a broken record keep spinning out the same lame line, "Tarvaris Jackson is our guy. [until week 4 when he strains something and his back up does slightly less terrible then when Tarvaris returns in weeks 7-8 he will do mediocre at best but the fans will boo us to a decision to bench him and we'll likely pick up some fossil on the free agent list who is terrible but will guide our terrible offense enough to not turn over the ball. He will then take our likely 4-4 team to a 5-3 finish where we might get a wild card berth only to fail in the playoffs like usual....]" Can you tell I've heard this song and dance before? Daunte Culpepper, Brad Johnson, Randall Cunningham... the list goes on.

Last but not least Darrell Bevell: Who was just innocently started calling his old coachee around the time Favre said he might want to come out of retirement... 3-5 times a week. I mean sure they were old buddies from the 2003-2005 seasons in GB. That's why Favre always made sure he walked across the field and the first person he went to was his good buddy Darren Bevell... (wait this just in... that never happened)

Acquaintances at best and it pretty much is text-book tampering... unless the Vikes can somehow prove that everyone involved is too dumb to be malicious.... A defense that practically writes itself.

The Untouchables

Like Harrison Ford coming back from the dead to make another Indian Jones movie so to has the NFL's oldest relic been rumored to be "pulling a Jordan". Not even 6 months after a tearful goodbye to the game of football the Hall of Famer Brett Favre has been rumored to be "looking at getting back into the game."

So here's the catch.

Aaron Rodgers is so sick of this guy he literally tweaked out in an interview on Jim Rome's show a few weeks ago saying, "I'm their [Packers] guy. If you don't like it you can just keep your mouth shut."

It's not often I agree with unbelievably egotistic, with random un---- cessary pauses Rome.

But in this case I'd have to agree, "you don't tell your fans to shut up." Especially if those fans are Packer fans. (Who most notably rate the Packers somewhere near Jesus, and beer.)

So when Brett Favre starts sniffing around edges it leads to a lot of tension for the Pack. What do you do?

Option 1: Put your whole program on hold for another year of 10-6 with a good but not quite there playoff run?

Thus also delaying the development of an already aging and clearly pissed off Rodgers.

Option 2: You tell Favre to suck it up and deal with his own decision. Risking total fan revolt. Because if the Packers as a whole rank near Jesus than Favre himself is actually above God in the chain of coolness. Favre gets mopey for a season and maybe makes some snap comments. Fans dissent at first and maybe come back next season after things cool down. Aaron Rodgers leads the Pack to a 7-9 season good enough for mediocre draft class and the program is back on track to re-building a young defensive team.

Option 3:

Trade Favre. Re-sign and then trade him away. (Right: is a terrible artist's rendition of what Favre may return as for the 2008-09 season) It seems like a viable possibility only because Favre could make that happen. Apparently some stoned sportscasters are actually predicting the Vikings to make a good playoff run, AND being just 1 ingredient shy of being a Superbowl contender... that's right a defnsive end who doesn't drink and drive.

Oh and a quarterback. Jackson is not going to cut it.

Now I know that picture just made millions of Packers fans pee their own pants in anger (he he... good). But it is a possibility. The Vikings have never had a QB last more than 1/2 a season in the last several decades. So even if the Iron man Favre were to come down with something half-way through the season... well they'd be used to it.

Some other potential teams could include the Falcons ( close to his hometown, still a somewhat decent team and definitely lacking a QB that doesn't abuse animals.)

Or possibly The Seahawks, Holmgren and Favre go way back, and Hassleback has proven unreliable. Seattle fans are getting anxious with all that talent and no championship to show for it.

Yes, Packer Fans this could be the beginning of the end for the Favre-is-only-our-guy mentality. Or it could be the continuation of the ending of his career that has been dragged out for the last 5 years. Either way I just hope the Hall of Famer never stops doing Cealis commercials, because nothing gets a guy hard quite like Farve tossing a football.

(Follow-up story: http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-packers-favre&prov=ap&type=lgns ) I love it when I'm proven right!

Favre released means he could stay in the division, a trade would inevitably be to an AFC team that has significantly less chance of playoff potential...Guess where he'd rather be.