Favre

It's going to get ugly in Green Bay.

After Brett Favre's tearful farewell to the game in March, everybody thought that they'd seen the last of Brett Favre on the football field. It seemed this time he actually meant it when he said he was through.

Not so fast. Favre has said he wants to come out of retirement. A couple of months ago, the Packers would have been keen to hear the news, but now they're saying they've moved on. Trouble is, they still have control of Favre, which means they have to decide what to do with him now that he's said he wants to play.

In the past couple of weeks, the tension has been rising and the fans have been getting restless. The team's management has said that a) Aaron Rogers is going to be their starting QB, and b) Favre can come back as a back-up if he wants to.

That isn't exactly what a Hall of Famer wants to hear, so Favre has asked to be released from the team. This will allow him to play for any team in the league. And guess what? Just today the Pack said that they will not release Favre, so if he wants to play football, he'll have to be happy with a back-up roll on the Packers squad, or forget about playing altogether.

That doesn't have to be the final answer. There's a chance the Packers can trade Favre to a team outside their division, which will guarantee that he won't embarrass them on their own turf in at least 2 games next year. But as it stands now, there's a very real possibility that this could blow up to the point where Favre will want to play for another team just so he can go into the Hall of Fame in any jersey other than Packer green.

Weird how life goes. Six months ago, Favre was a Packer legend. Now he's a headache for management, and a martyr for the fans.