Enough is Enough

Sorry, Brett, but I'm gonna have to break up with you. I tried hard to be on your side in all this. I said the Packers should welcome you back with open arms. I believed you when you said you felt pushed to retire and then changed your mind. Your love for the game gives me goosebumps. I respect all your many records.

But really, you're calling other sweethearts on the phone issued to you by Green Bay? Now you've just been stupid. People can forgive mistakes in judgment made in the name of passion, but stupidity is harder to ignore. As is cheating on your team by making late-night whispered calls to Minnesota. Green Bay was going to retire your jersey this season, and now that will all be put on hold.

It's all too much drama now Brett. The Pack has the goods on your calls, which means you will not play for the Vikings and they will likely lose draft picks over a guy who will never take a snap for them. See what you did? And now if you're traded you might be stuck in Tampa Bay where you will have nearly no chance to do much good. What fun is that?

Just stay retired. Make a nice speech about how much you love the Packers fans too much to cause a quarterback controversy. Say how you love the game too much to go somewhere and be ineffective for a team that will have to pay you too much money. Say how you didn't think you could live without the game, so now you're gonna coach quarterbacks at your local high school as a volunteer. Just go home though. Even the people in your corner are getting sick of it.