While the press seems to be taking sides on the whole Brett Favre thing, I’ve been mostly ridiculed for my decision to return to my previous job as a stockboy for a local grocery store. But I’ve got this fire inside me that I can’t get rid of just by sitting around and drinking beer with my pals.

Seriously, though, Favre has to respect the fact that he signed a contract to retire, and then decided to officially announce his retirement in front of a national audience. Whatever he’s done for the team historically, he’s still an employee of the Green bay Packers and needs to accept the fact they would rather have him more as an insurance plan than their starting quarterback. Maybe they can trade him to a better opportunity, but the team also has to act in a manner that benefits themselves.

Unfortunately for Favre, most of the blame for the Packers’ stance has to go on his own shoulders. If he hadn’t spent most of the previous offseasons jerking the team around on whether he was going to retire or not, the team may have been more willing to work with him on returning to football. But his own dawdling probably forced the team’s hand in making sure they had an adequate back up plan in Aaron Rodgers.

If the Packers remain unwilling to unload Favre on another team, I hope that he can amicably accept his position with the team and even possibly return to the team as a back up to Rodgers. Since the Packers seem unwilling to completely release Favre as a free agent, maybe he can put his money where his mouth is and go play in the Arena league or something. Either way, its time to have an offseason where the worry is not on Brett Favre’s availability, but on the success for the Packers’ themselves.