Quick question: has a fawning SI cover ever been so undeserved? In an interview with Fox, Favre has alluded that he might go down to Packers training camp even though A) he’s retired and B) no one wants him there. Why? Because last year’s SI Sportsman of the Year wants to play chicken with the team who he says forced him into retirement and refuses to cut him, even though he wants to play again. Not only that, if he returns, Favre expects them to just anoint him the team’s starting QB like nothing ever happened. Well, it looks like someone’s picked himself up a pyromania addiction during the offseason and likes to douse gasoline on a fire.

“It’s tempting just to, as everyone said, you know, call their bluff or whatever,” Favre said, according to an excerpt provided to The Associated Press. “I think it’s going to be a circus in itself already, whether I go there, whatever.”

Favre, a three-time MVP, says he feels “a little bit” bad for would-be successor Aaron Rodgers and insists he doesn’t want to be a distraction to his teammates. Or are they his former teammates?

“I like my teammates,” Favre said. “I had a lot of fun with them. I have talked to numerous guys throughout this whole ordeal. I wish them the best, I really do. I hold nothing against those guys. We had a lot of fun together. We had, it was an amazing year last year. I don’t want to make it any worse than it is.”

Man, this motherfucker’s delusional at this point. He’s like the ex who knows you’ll get married as soon as they fix the 17 problems they’ve outlined for you in a powerpoint presentation, or in this case, a dry erase board filled with X’s and Os.

Favre tempted to show up to camp to call Packers’ ‘bluff’ [ESPN]
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