Four score and seven days ago

We made our usual pilgimage to the land of beer and cheese, only to behold the trouble in titletown, the brew-haha in brew city, the quarrel for a QB, or even Four's fracas. I admit that publicly it seems like Brett is as big of a flip-flopper as either of our presidential candidates. But in my consideration of that conservative over-simplification of making a choice being made or a reanalysis of a previous decision, I know that things are usually far from as simple as they seem. Brett has announced three times he was going to retire, this spring actually going thru with it for a few months. But I ask why would a guy with the boyish love of the sport, whom still has all his ability as a QB, the best fans any athlete could ask for, achieving more records than any other at his position, have a four year period where he contemplated retirement.

Brett didn't had a bad season loosing two runningbacks (Amhan Green and Najeh Davenport and the top receiver Javon Walker in 2005 when GM Ted Thompson came aboard. Many veterans and even the coach at the time were shown the door. Thompson wanted a younger team with a price tag to match which was over the cap. Farve for years has wanted and needed a receiver that can be on the other end of Brett's spontaneous jump balls, maybe a Randy Moss..... I can only imagine that this change in going forward created a riff between Favre and Thompson which eventually spilled over to the new head coach, which was a QB coach in 2006.

Brett is in a spot where several of the last seasons were close but not enough, no trip to the superbowl which is the entire teams fault especially his inability in the cold. (Side note-Milwaukee has a retractible dome for a summertime sport? Take note Lambeau.) All athlete's want one last title shot, but when the philosophy is keep the team young and cheap, that doesn't show your MVP that your commited, just ask Barry Sanders. Not to mention that when a team looses their star, both the team and the player suffers, ask Michael Jordan.

The communication ultimately led to two parties that were never going to play together again. Now we are left with the uncertainty of what lies ahead. The Packers kept their promise and did what is "fair", what is this Mr' Rodger's Neighborhood....well it is now. Football is about the best team you can assemble, it's a business, but the ego-in-charge will find out just how good his team is. I fear of a Lynn Dickie or Don Majkowski era of 5 to ten years, but atleast we got rid of that whiner Brett. But now I have someone to cheer against Manning, and Brady and Manning!!!!!!