He has put his hands on virtually every record in the National Football League: touchdowns, interceptions, consecutive games played, and consecutive games played in cheap jeans. Brett Favre is one of the elite quarterbacks in professional football from a numbers standpoint and that was no more evident than last season, his 19th, when he was putting on a magic show week in and week out.

It is hard to argue with a guy that is putting up quality numbers as opposed to just lingering until he begins a career in commercials, which he does when he plays football in Wranglers or tries to decide which flat screen he really wants.

He has found a way to make his revolving door act into a sort of comedic scene that he can make a profit from and attempt to divert the attention away from the obvious. He is another athlete who has nothing to do after he retires from the game.

The man has made a career as a gunslinger, not a reader of defenses. That is why he is one of the top players in the history of the game, in touchdowns as well as interceptions.

It was a magical season that he constructed with the Vikings last year.

However, so was the one prior to that with the New York Jets.

Recall a couple of years ago when everything was fine while Brett was attempting to lead the New York squad into the playoffs until it got late in the season. His wheels started to fall off and he didn’t have that much talent surrounding him.

So, what did he do? He continued to play like a Mississippi backyard pitch-and-catch quarterback who has no brain, but an arm that must have been constructed by one of Steve Austin’s men.

There is no discrediting his ability to play the game, but I can not put him in the same class as Tom Brady or Peyton Manning. These guys are the Renoirs or the Van Goghs while Favre is another Jackson Pollack who splatters paint all over the field. Sometimes it looks like a masterpiece and at other times it looks like it was painted by a drunken fool who has a few too many canvases left over.

Hang ’em up Brett. Just because he thinks he has got it down after almost two decades of playing does not mean that the Vikings are better off with him at the helm.

The man is a time bomb.

He is above the game and continues to show that with how he comes in and out of retirement like Paris Hilton.

Brett was showered with praise when he helped the Green Bay Packers beat the Oakland Raiders in 2003, the day after his father passed away.

Did no one stop to think about the fact that he was playing a game the day after his dad died?

He was an established millionaire athlete at the time and could have taken a day off since his father had just died.

Favre is on another planet, this is really all he knows. Maybe he needs a wake-up call that does not include a video full of three-step and four-step drop techniques.

It can not be forgotten that he has the ability to walk onto the field, with little to no practice time, and be a game changer like Steve McNair used to do in his days.

Then again, we saw the kind of judgment calls McNair made in other aspects of his life. He wound up with a few more bullets in him than bullet passes he threw on the field.

So, maybe the Vikings would struggle without a Southern robot with a cannon for an arm.

Then again, Brett has the mindset that he understands the playbook more than the actual coach.

The team has not fallen apart yet but I think Terrell Owens has shown multiple times what a superstar with a bigger ego then the team will do to the bigger purpose, a championship.

Even though Favre says he wants what is best for the team, if he does not get the last word, his performance will be about as dependable as his fashion statement in the Wrangler commercials: cheap and outdated.

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