Epic Drop: Top 10 Reasons Why Brett Favre Was Reinstated

Your link is here, and the only thing I have to add to the crudity (seriously, I worked in the words "dental dams", which just establishes my Lesbian Chic, I think) is this simple question... When is this going to be, you know, about football again?

Green Bay QB is a meaningful position. It's a place with good skill players and line, in a weak division, with significant fantasy league importance. In the real world, it's the helm of a Final Four team from last year. And yet, what's been involved here is so much more than that, and doesn't really have to be. It's just been the media pulling for a good story, even though (shh!) Packer Fan isn't really all that into the Saga of Saint Brett.

The guy who got the biggest ovation at Opening Day last year in Lambeau (I was there) wasn't the quarterback. It was the rookie lineman from Wisconsin that was making his first start. The jerseys that you saw walking around the yard wasn't exclusively Number Four, but an awful lot of AJ Hawk. (He's a linebacker.) They didn't cheer his every move in what turned out to be a smoke and mirrors win over the eventually 8-8 Eagles, and when I asked a number of Packer Fans point black about His Quarterbackness, they didn't strike me as True Believers. Instead, they wished that he'd do well, because he was the quarterback of their team... and if he was gone, they'd, you know, still be at the game and rooting like hell for a Packer Win.

Because that's what the media isn't getting here, along with Favre: the game is bigger than the player, and will always be bigger than the player.

And oh, by the way... if karma exists in football terms, Favre carries a clipboard this year as Rodgers wins a Super Bowl. Or he gets hurt, or stinks, or gets dealt to a team that plays terribly. Your karmic interpretations, of course, may vary.