Favre Knows What He's Been Doing and Needs to Stop It

So, I was watching Preseason Football on Fox the other day when this came on at halftime...

I'll admit, it is funny. Not "Ha-Ha funny," more like "I feel the need to punch someone now funny."

Not to say that having this ad is a bad idea or that Farve is a sell-out to star in it. We've seen those Wrangler ads a million times and athletes can make great product spokesmen (Look at what Jeter and Tiger have done for Gatorade and Gillette). The problem I have with it is the whole timing of it.

We've been following the Brett Favre Retirement Circus since the end of the regular season. Is he going to retire? Is he going to keep playing? Will he stay in New York? Will he go to the Vikings? Day after day this went on. We all thought it was finally over when he said he was going to stay retired. Three weeks later, he changed his mind... again.

That brings me to why this ad makes me angry. It's not that Favre is making fun of himself in it, realizing the chaos he helped to create in the football world, it's that it started airing mere days after signing with Minnesota.

Not to start a conspiracy theory here, but doesn't it almost seem like Farve planned this?

Think about it. Think about how long it can take to make something like this. The filming, editing, finalizing, buying TV time, and giving it to the networks. He had to of made this ad sometime after (if not right before) he said he was going to stay retired. The fact that this starts playing during NFL Preseason games the same week he comes back to play with the Vikings leads me to believe that Brett Farve is just jerking us around. He wants this chaos to continue. He wants to bring attention to himself.

Look, I love Brett Favre. One of my earliest sports memories is watching him lead the Packers to winning Super Bowl XXXI. I've always understood why he came back the first time with the Jets and I'll even give him credit for making fun at himself in this ad, but now, I'm getting just as angered as everyone else about this.

Brett, if you are reading this: enough! We get that your stints in Green Bay and New York didn't end the way you planned and that you feel you still have something left in the tank, but this circus needs to end. Either stay retired (for a change) or shut up and let your play on the field do the talking for you. That's what you've been know for throughout your career. The fact you were poking fun at yourself in this ad shows that you realize what you've been doing. Now, show us you understand by ending the chaos once a for all. No more ads. No more retiring just to unretire again. Just go gracefully once you finally do decide to call it a career.

I promise, five years after you do finally retire, I'll be in Canton to hear your Hall of Fame induction speech in person.

...Just as long as you don't try and sell me anything.