Favre thoroughfare to be Aaron Rodgers' Boulevard of Broken Dreams?
After Brett Favre retired last month from the Packers, the city of Green Bay announced plans to name a street after the great quarterback. Problem is, city officials still can't decide which street.
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| Aaron Rodgers is ready to step out from Brett Favre's shadow. (Getty Images) |
The whole thing is ridiculous, but it can be salvaged with some outside-the-box thinking. Green Bay officials and Favre are clearly too confused to do it themselves, but they're in luck. I've come up with some ideas that should help both parties.
Pick out a street that allows a U-turn ...
Drivers will experience what it feels like to be like Brett. Go this way. Turn around and go back. Repeat. It ought to be great for business on that street, with cars going back and forth all day.
We've already been here with Favre, remember. We were here last year, too. He announced after the 2006 season that he would decide shortly whether to retire or return in 2007. Shortly dragged on and on, getting in the way of the Packers' offseason plans. Finally Favre decided to return, but only after milking the process for every headline he could get.
It's sad, but it's predictable. He did it again after the 2007 season, saying a decision would come within days, and he was right on the money if by "days" he meant 46 of them. The Packers' season ended Jan. 20 in the NFC title game. He announced his retirement March 6. That means the entire month of February came and went without a decision from Favre -- and this was a leap year.
Favre's so predictable that on the day he retired, our very own Mike Freeman wrote a story based on his inevitable return to action. And Freeman's a knucklehead.
So are members of the Green Bay city council. So here's another idea for Brett Favre Boulevard.
Pick a one-way street ...
Because that's the way it is with Favre: a one-way street. It's his way or ... his way. Nobody else matters. Not the Packers' quarterback of the present future, Aaron Rodgers, who has been trying to gear up for his first year as the starter but now must prepare to gear down if Favre returns. Not the Packers' coaching staff, which must tailor one offense around Rodgers while being ready to tailor another around Favre. Not the Packers' front office, which had to rush through free agency after Favre's late decision to retire and now will enter the draft with Favre back on the fence.
This is a one-way street, all the way. The team isn't asking him to come back. Near as I can tell, he isn't asking the team, either. He's going to tell them, one way or the other. Because he's Brett Favre, dammit. And Brett Favre doesn't ask questions. He gives answers.
Which brings me back to the road, and my answer to the city council's conundrum.
