Thank you, Bret. You made my day, my week,month year. One more year of watching Favre, priceless

I love Brett Favre. But really, does he need to come back for another year? This may be unfair to him and it certainly could be unfair to his team, the Green Bay Packers. There comes a time when the best of the best have to move on. Perhaps this time has not come for Favre. But it would be better for him to make the decision to leave than one day not so far in the future someone else makes it for him.

I am so sick of these will they or won't they moments in Sports. In Houston big Roger does this every year.

Really who cares?

The team is not about the players any longer. The team is the city and the fans. The fans are the constants, owners, players and staff changes but the fans are forever.

He's washed up!

Ironically, the "players come and go" comment doesn't apply here. Favre has started every game since '92 or so for the Packers, and he just isn't going to show up one day as, say, a Redskin (although it might have helped). He has a Super Bowl ring, and all he needs to play for now are the two QB records he doesn't yet have (TD's and victories). Yes, he's slowing down Green Bay's rebuilding, but it is hard to imagine whether his replacement could do better.

A couple of weeks ago, after the Patriots-Colts game, I wrote about the horrible officiating and dreadful calls.

In trying to be objective, I pointed out that the Pats gave up 38 points so that they hardly had grounds to complain. OTOH, I questioned the call in the end zone on Hobbs and wondered if it was based on face guarding.

Someone wrote and said it was definitely face guarding, which according to Mike Perreira is legal anyway.

Now, the NFL is all but admitting that the call was blown.

Below is an excerpt from a story in The Boston Herald yesterday -- heavily clipped to avoid copyright issues.

Pereira: Right call was made
By Michael Felger

MIAMI - Mike Pereira, the NFL's vice president of officiating, reiterated that the pass interference call on Ellis Hobbs ... was correct.
But just barely.
"Was he called for face-guarding? The answer to that is no. He was not called for face-guarding. Face-guarding in the NFL, as well as the NCAA, is perfectly legal," Pereira said. "You have to have contact in order to have a foul.

[the] one replay (the networks showed repeatedly) wasn't a very good replay. . . . did Hobbs hit his shoulder before he got there? If you slow it down, actually he did.
"I would have to say, it's not the strongest (case of pass interference). But it is a foul."

"The thing that bothers me the most about the foul and the yardage is the mistake," Pereira said. "I have a hard time digesting the mistake. It's the toughest play to officiate. It's all judgment. And if you make a mistake and it happens to be 40- or 50-yard mistake - that's huge."

Amazing, isn't it? The NFL has trouble digesting the mistake but doesn't have the integrity to say the officials blew the call -- not that it matters now.

Again, my interest in this was from the point of view of the rules, just as the call on Troy Brown was inexcusable.

OTOH, Saturday made a HUGE block on Wilfork and the Colts did intercept Brady to end it all.

I'm hoping for a good game ... hope the Bears win, just a personal preference, but I think the Colts will be too tough since both Urlacher and Grossman will have to be near perfect in order for the Bears to win.

Manning is pretty awesome with his speed and release and diagnostic ability ... all from hard work.

A fun game for any fan.

Although Brett is no longer a top 3 QB, he definitely is top ten in the league. Considering his backup QB went down with a season ending injury it's probably best he comes back for one more year to give the kid a chance to heal up completely - the Pack doesn't need to pull a Miami maneuver and bring an injured player back too soon, especially at QB.

Brett is always fun to watch, and if they add a couple receivers for him to throw to he could get the job done this year. I love watching good football games, and Brett can provide us with quite a good show every Sunday.

In that I'm not a Packers fan, I couldn't care less if Favre plays or retires, but there is no doubt that he's about 5 years over the hill. If I were a Packers fan, I wouldn't be happy with him still on the roster. His unretirement is stifling the Packers' development. Articles keep appearing that say something like "if only he had better players around him the Packers would be good." Actually, if the other players had a better qb around them then the Packers would be better.