The Return of Favre...........................again

So the Brett Favre saga is officially over @ last.  Well, @ least for this year.  2011 is still up in the air.  Although personally, I think the old gun-slinger could still be himing and hawing @ age 50.  But that's a story for another year.  The official story is that Brett Favre was kidnapped in Missisippii yesterday by Jared Allen, Ryan Longwell, and Steve Hutchinson.  The three players took a private plane there on Monday to convince/beg Favre to return, or @ least to give the world an answer.  Then they tied him up, put a hood over his head, stuffed him in a bag, drove him to the airport, and locked him in the cargo hold as they all headed back to Minnesota.  Okay, maybe thats not exactly how it happened, but no matter how you slice it, thats how it sounded when I heard the news yesterday.  Could this all be coincidence?  Remember, last year it was August 18th when Brett Favre made his decision to help the men in purple.  What's today? August 18th, although technically, Brett Favre may have made up his mind yesterday.  Is there any doubt that he's back?  It would be kind of odd, (and funny) if Brett Favre traveled to Minnesota just to announce that his ankle hurts too much to play.  Although with Favre, anthing is possible I guess.  Now today, Favre is expected to take the practice field and Brad Childress and the Vikings are expected to announce @ 2:30 that (gasp, Favre is back!)  Alot of people kinda expected Favre to return, but it seems the Vikings had a little reason to be nervous.  I mean, they were reduced to sending 3 of Favre's friends to his home in Missisippii to eat his steak and take him back to Minnesota.  Not that I blame them; Favre's value to this team is adds up to more than his age.  Lets be honest, Tavaris Jackson can be salty about it all he likes, the bottom line is that with him, the Vikings win maybe 8 games and probably miss the playoffs.  With Favre, the possibilities go to the playoffs and beyond.  Take a good, hard look @ last year and tell me with a straight face that the Vikes dont need Mr. Indecisive.  Here are some stats that are almost unfathomable for an ageless 40-year old: 68.4 completion percentage, over 4,200 passing yards, 33 TD's and only 7 INT's with a brilliant passer rating of 107.2.  And by the way, did Sidney Rice make the pro bowl before a certain old guy started throwing it to him? The answer is nope.  The Vikings have the talent to make the Super Bowl, but only with Favre.  If you really believe that the Vikings can win it all with (snicker) Tavaris Jackson and Sage Rosenfels quarterbacking the ship, you can consider yourself medically brain-dead about the game of football.  Not that it'll be easy for the Vikings; they play in a tough division.  The Bears are better defensively and offensively this year ( as long as Mike Martz, the new offensive coordinator, can handle a QB that threw 26 INT's last year, they should be fine).  Dont forget about the Packers either, a team that had the 2nd best defense in the league last year and has a budding superstar QB in Aaron Rodgers.  But the Vikings are 3rd in that division without Favre.  No matter how you look @ it, thats the bottom line.  Yes, we all went on the same crazy ride as last year and the year before that and the year before that and the year before that and the year before.........................................you get the point.  Yes Brett Favre is old.  Yes he's a drama queen with gray temples.  Yes, he's indecisive.  And he's always indecisive.  But he's also the ultimate iron man.  He's a future Hall of Fame QB.  He's a proven winner.  He owns every freaking record a QB has, even the record of gray hairs.  And he's still the most superior gun-slinger the NFL has ever seen.  Complain about it all you want, the NFL is better with Favre in it.  He's must-see TV.  So many times i've heard people say, "Man, I'm tired of Favre.  He should just retire.  Why do we have to put up with this every single year?!" And yet those same people are the ones tuning in on Sundays to watch him play.  If there were a word like hypocritical irony, I would use it to describe the complainers.  Don't kid youselves; you love Favre.  He's a walking headline.  And now, he's back on our TV sets again.  But who knows about 2011?  Till' next year Favre...................................................