A Good-Bye Letter to Brett Favre
By Dave Sinykin (Resident Packer "Expert")
Email: davesinykin@clearchannel.com

Good bye, Brett. We said good-bye two years ago when you tearfully called it quits. We were saying good bye, but we knew we’d always have you. As a retired legend, you would always be around. You’d come back to Lambeau from time to time to revel in the adulation from fans looking to relive the 16 unforgettable seasons when you were the face, heart and soul of our franchise. After all, reliving past championships and memories is what Packer fans do best, right?

But now, we say good-bye. We don’t want you back. Not for a while. A long while. This orchestrated maneuver to strike revenge in the heart of Ted Thompson is sad. When you retired for a second time, you knew you weren’t retiring. You were removing yourself from the Jets so you could sign with the Vikings.

Our revulsion isn’t that you want to keep playing. What bugs us is that you only want to keep playing because the Vikings represent a perfect storm in your hatred for Thompson. You’d be joining the Packers’ second biggest rival whose only perceived need is at your position (we might argue that there are other issues such as the offensive line and defensive backfield, but we digress).

If the Vikings and Bears were set at quarterback and your options were in Washington Tampa Bay or San Francisco, we don’t believe you’d entertain extending your career.

So you’ll get your wish. The Vikings will welcome you with open arms and you will get one more shot at leading a team to the playoffs and beyond. But in doing so, you will destroy your legacy in Green Bay. Some young fans who don’t remember the team before you may stay loyal, but the majority of fans in Titletown will be done with you.

Five years from now when you’re swatting mosquitos in Mississippi, you won’t be welcomed back to soak in the adulation. You’ll have to decide whether it was worth it.

Ultimately, you will probably assure yourself that you still had the itch, felt like you could play at a high enough level to win—and besides, the team wanted you. So you won’t second guess yourself, no matter what happens this season—and maybe next.

But many of us are done with you. We don’t want to see your name on the Ring of Honor. We won’t make the pilgrimage to Canton five years after you retire. Oh, at some point we’ll get over your betrayal and welcome you back.

Probably when they decide to stop selling beer at Lambeau.

Bye-bye Brett.

Dave Sinkyin is the FAN's resident Packer "expert", and can be heard on In The Zone with Trent Tucker Saturday mornings from 8:00-10:00 AM.