I'll be the first to admit it. I like what Brett Favre has added to the last few years' NFL offseason. Let's face it, nothing else is going on (except - yawn - baseball).The last three years it seemed all anyone in the media could talk about was whether or not Favre would come back for another year. But although Brett has not yet committed to playing football in 2010, no one seems to care. Well Teenage_Mustache cares. Favre just needs some new ideas to keep offseason interest piqued.
The problem is the now-familiar pattern. We hear almost nothing from Favre after the season, save maybe a quick half-hearted retirement. Then rumblings emerge that he has started leaning toward playing again, often creating problems for the team currently carrying his contract. Then once training camp is largely over, Favre reports to play for whomever he signs on with. This pattern is so widely assumed now, and he played so well with the Vikings last year, that the media and fans simply expect this to happen.
Despite this, Favre has done nothing to build anticipation for either playing or potentially hanging up his cleats for the 2010 season. Maybe he's too busy with his new grandchild - that's right, Brett Favre is a 40-year-old grandfather. Or maybe he's too busy playing pick-up football games with those Wrangler-wearing good-old-boys. Or maybe he really is just sitting around on a tractor in Mississippi.
Whatever is occupying Favre's time though, he needs to start thinking about occupying other people's time. Brett needs to make other people keep guessing what his next move is. Perhaps he should take up minor league baseball or dogfighting or fighting fans at NBA games. After all, those activities certainly drummed up media flurries for other star athletes. I simply don't have the answer, as I am not the entertainer that No. 4 is.
Well, whatever Favre is doing, he'd better start making noise after the draft. Because that's when the offseason gets really boring.
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