I am sick and tired of Brett Favre (again)

Here we go again. The man with an ego bigger than the game is back once more, determined to further destroy what was once an outstanding reputation.

For $12 million and a chance to get at the Packers, who had the nerve to get rid of him after he spent an entire offseason retired, then expected to have his job handed back to him even though the team had built its plans around Aaron Rodgers. How dare they take his word when he said he was retired (and was staying retired)? How dare they finally move on after he had jerked them around with retirement threats for the previous three seasons?

So now he gets his shot at payback. Sucks for him that, if the Vikings win, it'll probably be in spite of him instead of because of him. For a lot of reasons.

For one thing, he's not what he used to was, which is one of the reasons the Pack (wisely) kicked him to the curb. He's 39, nearly 40, with a tear in his rotator cuff. His fastball has lost a couple miles an hour, the speed he needed to make the ill-advised throws he's made for 20 years. He threw 22 TDs last year, but also threw 22 INTs. He hasn't gotten any smarter.

For the Vikings, this is a problem. With their running game and defense, they need a quarterback who can manage a game, make smart decisions and not turn the ball over. Sage Rosenfels and Tavaris Jackson wouldn't have been a whole lot better, but their mistakes would come through simple blunders--not blunders caused by a quarterback switching out of plays called because he wants to gamble, who wants to throw deep.

Guys who don't screw up because they're Brett Favre and haven't recognized they're not what they once were.

His out of control ego won't just hurt the Vikings on the field. He's already pissed off a lot of his new teammates by jerking them around, acting like he was still retired and then showing up once most of training camp was done because it was convenient. Farve, like Roger Clemens late in his career, plays by a different set of rules--because he thinks he's entitled to it. That crap doesn't play well in NFL locker rooms, and when it becomes apparent that Favre isn't the Favre of a decade ago but still thinks he is (and should be treated as such), his teammates will sour on him. That is, the ones who haven't already.

I'm sick of Favre's ego, his belief that he's bigger than any team and that he can just make and break rules at his leisure. Football's the ultimate team game, and that's what makes it so great. Favre thinks its him and 52 other players.

He's a joke. He's a shell of himself and is disgracing his legacy. I hope he flops in Minnesota, goes back to Hattiesburg and stays there. Enough of him.