My take on Brett Favre and Days of our Packers

OK...I am jumping in late, after just about every other media outlet, blogger and fan website has beaten this topic to death.

"Should Brett Favre retire, return or be traded"

One sentence and four words will answer the question..."I DO NOT CARE!!!"
In this time when gas prices have hit an all time high, prices at the grocery stores are skyrocketing, the economy is more than slumping and companies are laying off hundreds, if not thousand of employees...here we spend so much desire and energy on a football player??!!??

Yes Brett Favre was the "messiah" for Green bay Packer football, leading the team to the "promised land" in 1996-1997, and spurning hope every late July that "this could be another Super Bowl year.

Folks let me remind you...football is a sport, a game played by men. It is an escape every Sunday from September though January, where we can forget the cares of the world and don the colors of our beloved team and cheer them on, jeer them on Monday mornings when they lose, and hope the Bears still Suck.

I have been a Green Bay Packers fan going back to the mid 1970's, when Bart Starr was the coach, Lynn Dickey, David Whitehurst, Paul Coffmann, Terdell Middleton, James Lofton and others wore the Green and Gold, mostly in losing efforts. I lived though dismal season after dismal season under Starr, Forrest Gregg, Lindy Infante and others.

I was thrilled to death like many other Cheeseheads in the mid 90's when the team was beginning to look like a contender...I was jumping and screaming when Favre and Desmond Howard brought home the beloved Lombardi trophy. I reveled in the Superman-like effort Favre put out on Monday Night Football against the Oakland Raiders the day after his father passed away...and I cried the day this past March when Brett Favre announced his retirement to the world.

Ladies and gentlemen...as much as many in this great state and around the country tend to forget...football (along with other professional sports) are just a game. It should not take over our lives.

The passion that is being shown by the Pewaukee brothers that are organizing the Bring Favre Back Rallies...if that was redirected towards something more beneficial to all...imagine the impact it would make.

Our culture has become so passive when it comes to moral and ethical issues, but when it comes to sports, everyone is ready to shout their opinions from the rooftops. Yes I will admit I am guilty of this as well.

THIS IS YOUR WAKE-UP CALL!! Get off your Green and Gold soapbox, take off the Fire Ned Yost T-Shirt...and get involved in something bigger.

I am tired of spending over $4.00 a gallon in gas, spending hundreds of dollar more a month on groceries and not getting anything extra, watching businesses downsize and close because the economy is killing them.

Instead of trying to hold the Ted Thompson's, Ned Yost's and Brett Favre's of the world accountable for something that happens on the athletic fields, how about we work, (individually and as a community) to send a wake up call to the Jim Doyle's, Tom Barrett's, Russ Feingold's and Herb Kohl's of the world (no I am not taking shots at the Democrats) and let them know we are sick and tired and are not going to stand for it.

We vote these men and women in to represent US....let's let them know we are here 24/7/365, not just at Election time.

And as far as Brett Favre...be a man, keep your word, RETIRE and enjoy the time with your wife and daughters. how many of us wish we could retire at 39 and have the money to be financially sound for the rest of our lives???