The Brett Favre Circus

As Bob Dylan sang in his song Desolation Row: ¶ They're selling postcards of the hanging, They're painting the passports brown,The beauty parlor is filled with sailors, The circus is in town

Got your popcorn, your cotton candy? Do you have a front row seat waiting in anticipation for the main clown to appear hoping to catch a balloon from him?

Yes, here he comes now, Mr. Brett Favre himself!

At the moment he is retired, or he did retired back in February, saying: "he is retired and that his career is over." I think or he thinks or we think, maybe nobody thinks. The Jets than said that they are taking Favre at his word that he is retired but, didn't release him thinking he might change his mind. Gee, I wonder where they got that idea from?

Then this past March, 5th we had the Packers saying they "still intend to offer legendary quarterback Brett Favre a marketing agreement, but want to wait until both sides can move beyond any hurt feelings." They then went on to say a week later that, "The Green Bay Packers will retire Brett Favre's No. 4 jersey at some point, and team president and CEO Mark Murphy envisions a day when Favre is once again part of the family." BUT, "probably won't happen this year. "

Then last week after trading up to get Mark Sanchez, the Jets let Favre go, with him saying: "At this time, I am retired and have no intention of returning to football." OK, we've been here before.

Now for the main ring feature.

After this the rumors started flying about how he said he "can't peacefully retire until he finds a way to get revenge on the Packers" & how he can't stand Green Bay, and that he wants to play Green Bay and say, 'I told you so.' On & on it go's... until we now have either him or Minnesota calling each other and talking or so they say or so we hear.

I will acknowledge that he played better last year with the Jets, than what I had expected, but he did tire and faltered at the end.

Brett Favre is angry at something. I think he's angry at himself and he's blaming Green Bay. He's angry at himself for being almost 40 years old and thinking he's still 20. He's angry that he hasn't had the chance for more Superbowl victories. He's just angry and bitter.

No one at the moment knows what will happen between now and August with Mr Favre. In my opinion he should make amends with Green Bay, drop his bitterness, live with the fact he's 40 years old and retire with the superstar status he still has, and not as a old clown or even worse with a life threatening injury.

But I don't see that happening, not this year.