The tears were real, the intention virtuous and the end result will seem oddly familiar.
Brett Favre will be back. You can count on it.
Such a scenario doesn't seem possible now. Favre's emotional goodbye was sincere, greatly eloquent and profound even if the entire Favre retirement has been vastly over-covered by all of us in the media; seriously, you would think from the amount of coverage Favre has received in the past 48 hours he just walked on the surface of Mars.
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While his retirement has been dripping in accolades usually reserved for a dead head of state, it has been equally interesting to watch how most media members and fans actually believe that Favre will stay retired, which is a really, really stupid thing to do.
Tears or no tears, we've seen this before from great athletes. We've seen this a hundred times before.
Retire, unretire. Retire, unretire.
Cry, come back. Weep, make a return.
It's the old athlete two-step; should be put to a Johnny Cash song.
Maybe Favre will stay retired, do more blue jeans commercials and fish his ass off. Maybe months from now you Packers fans will write me and say: You were wrong knucklehead. Again.
That could all be quite accurate.
But I've been fooled too many times by the old athlete two-step, and I won't be suckered again.
For every Barry Sanders, John Elway and Jim Brown who stayed retired, there is a Michael Jordan and Junior Seau.
