Okay, I gotta talk here!

You might know that I am a Green Bay Packers fan, yes indeedy. Every Sunday and some varying Mondays and Thursdays, also occasional Thanksgiving Days. I don my beloved 66 Ray Nitschke jersey and root for the Pack. I also usually get retarded drunk but that is another story. The end of last season was a gut wrencher for me. The bad pass that was picked off, ending the Packers inconceivable run toward the Super Bowl hurt. Then old faithful himself, Brett Favre calls it quits and tells the world he is retiring. It was a crappy way to end a heart breaker season.
That being said, you may also know that I am a rabid news fan. I really have a sick obsession with world news, politics, current events, what have you. I just enjoy it.
So what's my beef today and why do I bring up Brett Favre, the Packers and world news? Well, I'll tell you. As if you thought I wouldn't.

In the last couple of weeks it has become apparent that Brett Favre wants to play football again. At 38 years old, he still feels that he has a couple more throws in him. Now the fact that he has retired brings up many questions about what the Packers organization should do. GM Ted Thompson, a man that I and several of my fellow Cheeseheads Feel less that friendly toward, wants Brett to stay retired to "preserve his legacy". It could be understandable that the legacy of a man that played for sixteen seasons in this age of constant trades and money hungry players and agents, should be protected but the fact is that no matter what happens for Favre from this point on, his Green Bay legacy will remain intact. The more appropriate comment from Ted should have been " I want Favre gone so I can prove my legacy". Favres backup for the last three years, being Aaron Rodgers . Thompson's first major pick for the Pack and the slide rule by which he will be measured over and above all his other, rather impressive acquisitions. Brady Poppinga, A.J. Hawk, Donald Lee. Yet he will live or die by Rodgers. There is a lot of behind the scenes back an forth in the land of cheese and has been since the beginning of the Thompson era and a lot of vets were let go when Ted got to work. It seems to many people I have talked to that I young team is being built on the foundation laid by the veterans, passing the old guard to the new. That's fine, it's the way it's usually done in most sports but this time it seems different. People yammer about how Favre has been waffling about retiring for the last three years. Gee, you mean around the time that Thompson took over as GM ousting Mike Sherman? No one ever mentions the possibility that Favre might have been placed under pressure to retire by a GM that really wants to show that he is more than just the guy that picked Shaun Alexander. I never hear anyone talking about the big picture just what they see on ESPN.
But you know what bugs me the most? The fact that, in an election year, people are more wrapped up in ridiculous sports melodrama than worrying about the future of our country. Brett Favre's "waffling" pisses people off, yet they totally disregard John McCain's constant flipity flopping on policies, his bald faced lies and his pandering of the politics of our current President. People also seem to miss the fact that our country is being slammed into the poorhouse by Washington and its filthy ilk. As all houses of government in both major parties, twist and spin around laws and the Bill of Rights. Look at a sports blog and then compare to some news blogs and tell me I am way off on this. Look, it's okay for an athlete to flip flop, who cares, he thought he was done, burnt out. Any one of us would feel the same way in his shoes. He loves the game and wants to play. So what, let him. Now politicians are a different story. If you hold a stance and then shift it, People are most likely gonna get killed. I am just pointing out that there are bigger stories out there people and maybe you should pay attention to them while we still have the freedom to gather together at a public stadium and watch football.

By the way, if Favre does get released and Rodgers doesn't put out, that will be the end of the Thompson tenure at Lambeau. You heard it here first baby.