… Lots of glib responses, lots of equivocation, all of which I suspect is complete BS. He’s already decided. If he can throw, he’s going to play for the Vikings, and he damn well knows it. He just can’t bring himself to say it.

Favre’s got every right to explore his options. Every right. He wants to play, that’s obvious. And he wants to play for the Vikings. What’s the motivation for that? It’s probably more complex than a desire to stick it to Thompson, though I’m sure that’s one of his motivations. I’m sure he also would like to avoid as many cold weather games as possible, which the dome allows him to do, because he hasn’t played better than awful outdoors in cold weather in nearly 5 years. He wants to play in that system again, with that running back, with that defense, for those coaches. There’s lot to like, from his perspective.

Like I said, he’s got every right to play for Minnesota or whomever he likes. He’s got every right to stick it to Thompson, if he can. He’s got every right to not care how the fans in Green Bay will react. He’s got every right to expect that we’ll be upset for a while and we’ll love him again when he finally walks away from the game for good. As he said tonight, “time heals”, and I don’t doubt that he thinks that no matter what happens in 2009 and 2010, 5 or 10 years from now, the Packers will throw a boatload of money at him to get him to show up for a game or two, do a couple of charity performances, and act grateful when they retire his jersey and put his name on the ring. What does he care if some folks are pissed that he played for the Vikings? Like he said tonight, some folks just aren’t going to like him no matter what he does. He’s got every right. Every right to finish his career however and with whomever he wants.

What he doesn’t care about, is the fact that in trying to get what he wants and in trying to stick it to Thompson, he’s sticking it to me. He’s creating a situation where my son, just 5, will remember Brett Favre as a Viking, and not a Packer. Not his problem, I know. And after all, “time heals” right?

But there’s someone else who’s got every right to do what’s good for them. And it’s me. I’ve got every right to think that Brett Favre is a selfish and egomaniacal in his refusal to accept the fact that he’s a mediocre QB when healthy and a bad one when not. I’ve got every right to hope the guy I loved watching for all those years doesn’t go to the Vikings, and I’ve got every right to boo him when he does. I’ve got every right to laugh my ass off every time he puts up 3, or 4, or 5 or more INTs in division games this year, and I’ve got every right to laugh my ass off when his failings as a player end the Vikings season well short of a Superbowl in 2009. And I’ve got every right to laugh as I watch Capers’ zone blitz scheme confuse Favre, as it always has, and I’ve got every right to find it funny when Kampman or someone else plants him. And I’ve got every right to never forget that in trying to stick it to Thompson, he really stuck it to me. I’ve got every right to boo him when he comes to Lambeau in 2009 and beyond. And I’ve got every right to never forgive. And I’ve got every right to never forgive Favre for refusing to put his own needs behind those of the team over and over again in the last years of his career, even that day in Lambeau against the Giants when he had his last chance to make the Superbowl, and he threw that chance, and the ball, inexplicably, into the Giants hands.

And I will never forgive Favre for becoming a Viking. Never.